Weekly 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…
Read more“Age of Myth” by Michael J. Sullivan
This is another book that I received in the recent LibraryThing Secret Santa that I participated in. I’m a fan of Michael J. Sullivan’s Riyria Revelations series, so I was…
Read more“The Fifth Season” by N.K. Jemisin
I read the first two books of Jemisin’s Inheritance series a few years ago – I liked them okay but I wasn’t blown away, so I was in no hurry…
Read more“Merchants and Maji” by William C. Tracy
Merchants and Maji is a collection of two novellas set in the same universe (the “Dissolutionverse”) – Last Delivery and The First Majus in Space. It’s been a while since…
Read more“Flame Tree Road” by Shona Patel
Flame Tree Road was recommended to me by my husband’s grandmother, and I immediately put it on my wishlist because I was interested in reading Indian historical fiction. I was…
Read more“Martians Abroad” by Carrie Vaughn
I don’t think Martians Abroad is coming out for a couple of weeks, but I was delighted to receive a review copy from Tor a couple of days ago since…
Read more“The Shadow of What Was Lost” by James Islington
I’m always on the lookout for a good classic fantasy series. While I’m glad that so many books these days are not following the “hero’s journey of a secretly powerful…
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