Favorite Movie of the Week Captain Fantastic (2016) Disillusioned with the standard American lifestyle, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife Leslie have made the unusual choice of moving to…
Read more“The Crown Tower” by Michael J. Sullivan
Reading Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan made me want to go back (to the future!) and read some more Riyria. I’ve read the entirety of the Riyria Revelations…
Read more“Empire Games” by Charles Stross
I’ve never read any Charles Stross before, but he’s been on my wishlist for a very long time, so I was excited to read this book. It’s set in the…
Read more“Dear Samsor” by Ahmad Zia Wahdat
Dear Samsor is a novella written by a friend of mine from college. I was very interested in reading it since it’s set in a time and place I don’t…
Read more“The Obelisk Gate” by N.K. Jemisin
I absolutely loved The Fifth Season when I read it a couple of weeks ago – it made my top five books of 2016 despite reading it in late December.…
Read more“Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War” by Nathaniel Philbrick
I’m continuing on my quest to read more about world history this year, since I enjoyed India After Gandhi and A World At Arms so much last year. I bought…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Jan 8-14, 2017
Favorite Movie of the Week Interstellar (2014) I’ve seen this movie before (when it was in theaters), but I’m still counting it as a favorite movie of the week because…
Read more“The Heart of What Was Lost” by Tad Williams
I read Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series back in 2012, and while I didn’t absolutely love it (see my review here), I still have pretty good memories of…
Read more“Unfettered II” edited by Shawn Speakman
I’ve been waiting for my pre-order of Unfettered II to arrive for weeks, so I was pretty excited when it finally got here last week. Unfettered II is an anthology…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Jan 1-7, 2017
Favorite Movies of the Week Koyaanisqatsi (1982) I was highly skeptical of this movie before I watched it because I’d never seen a non-narrative film before. How could a movie…
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