This year so far, I have read 55 books, for a total of 14,043 pages, which breaks down to about 40 pages per day (and the year’s not over yet!). These books were not necessarily released this year (although many …
As a symptom of owning a bookstore, I get asked often about what I’m currently reading. As a response to that, I thought I’d start a bi-monthly blog post listing the books I’ve read in the past month and brief …
Fantasy is a genre that, frankly, lost my interest a while ago. After Tolkien came onto the scene and introduced the epic hero’s journey, many copycats popped up, and it seemed to me that every fantasy book I read was …
Book Review: Children of Blood of Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Read more »
As you’ve seen in our Best Books of 2017 post and heard on the podcast, Charlie Jane Anders wrote my favorite book I read last year, All the Birds in the Sky, so of course I had to read this short story …
Book Review: Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders Read more »
2017 is coming to a close, and if you’re anything like us, you’ve been prepping your TBR list for 2018 since the summer. There are SO. SO. MANY. amazing books being released in just the first few months of next …
I picked up The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith at the ABA’s Winter Institute in Denver as one of about 100 books. I had the opportunity to meet the author at a Simon & Schuster sponsored dinner …
The Way I Used to Be is One of the Most Important Books You’ll Read Read more »
As I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday, I noticed a trending article about the Jem and the Holograms movie. After only two weeks in theaters, it was performing so poorly that, in an unprecedented move, Universal decided to pull the …
Jem Movie is Truly Outrageous in All the Wrong Ways Read more »
Being a nerd, I’ve liked Felicia Day and Geek & Sundry, her internet empire, for a while now. I’ve watched most of The Guild and The Flog, and I’ve kept up with the geeky things she regularly puts onto …
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Go Set a Watchman is set to be the best selling book of 2015. Not only is it a sequel (somewhat) to To Kill a Mockingbird and Harper Lee’s first published book in 55 years, the controversy surrounding this book is …
Go Set a Watchman is a Study in New Adult Character Development Read more »
Ernest Cline’s Armada is one of the most anticipated science fiction novels of this year after his popular Ready Player One charmed nerds and geeks everywhere after being re-released in 2014. I was able to get an advance copy of Armada from Cline himself …
Ernest Cline’s Armada Delivers on Action; Not On Originality Read more »