“The Stone Sky” by N.K. Jemisin
I’ve been looking forward to the release of The Stone Sky ever since I read the previous books in the series, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, (both of…
Read moreBook series review: Raven’s Shadow by Anthony Ryan
I’ve been meaning to read Anthony Ryan’s Raven’s Shadow series for a long time but kept putting it off because so many people said the second and third books didn’t…
Read moreBook series review: The Dresden Files (1-15) by Jim Butcher
I’ve owned the first eight Dresden Files books for a couple of years now and I kept meaning to read them and never getting around to it. I did read…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Aug 20-26, 2017
Favorite Movies of the Week The Hunt (2012) I didn’t know anything about this movie before I watched it except that it was a critically acclaimed Danish movie starring Mads…
Read moreMovie review: Death Note (2017)
Death Note is about a Seattle high-school student, Light Turner, who finds a notebook (the titular Death Note) that gives its owner the ability to kill people simply by writing…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Aug 13-19, 2017
Favorite Movie of the Week Dhobi Ghat (2010) Dhobi Ghat follows the life of four interconnected people living in Mumbai. Shai (Monica Dogra) is a banker on sabbatical working on…
Read more“The Witchwood Crown” by Tad Williams
I was really looking forward to The Witchwood Crown after I got back into the world of Osten Ard earlier this year with Tad Williams’ excellent short novel The Heart…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Aug 6-12, 2017
I usually order the movies I review in descending order of how good I think they were. Unlike most weeks, this week’s movies were all really good, so take this…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Jul 30-Aug 5, 2017
Favorite Movie of the Week Summer Wars (2009) Summer Wars is the second movie by Mamoru Hosoda of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time fame. I wasn’t expecting it to…
Read more“The Legion of Flame” by Anthony Ryan
I loved The Waking Fire, the first book of this series – it sent me into an Anthony Ryan binge and I read his previous series as well (review coming…
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