This is review number lucky 13 and marks halfway through my half cannonball. I’m on better track this year than last! The End of All Things is the sixth book in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War universe and direct sequel to The Human Division. THD is a set of thirteen standalone short stories (originally released serially in e-format and then collected in dead tree format) with a narrative thread tying the stories together. TEoAT, while not advertised as such, feels similar only instead of short stories they […]
The Golden Compass and joys of explaining “original sin”
This is probably my fourth reading of The Golden Compass and this time I read it aloud to my nine year old daughter over the course of several months at bedtime. She’s already read The Chronicles of Narnia, started the Prydain Chronicles, and is three volumes into Harry Potter so now seemed like a good time to introduce her to the His Dark Materials trilogy. I love introducing books to my daughter and watching her devour them the way I have. Reading this book aloud make […]
A Terrible Plan is an excellent read
At Wonder Con we wandered past the Boom!Box and Archaia publishing table and noticed that we were severely behind in our Lumberjanes collection. This situation was immediately rectified. Volume one previously reviewed in I want to be a Lumberjane. In volume three, A Terrible Plan, Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watters continue to produce highly entertaining Lumberjane stories with the help of some talented artists. A detail I love about the Lumberjanes graphic novels are how each chapter starts with a page from the Lumberjane field manual […]
A Conjuring of Light – consumed at nearly light speed
On April 20th I went to see the always highly entertaining John Scalzi at my local independent bookstore. While waiting for him to autograph several books, I was perusing the shelves as the line slowly wound through the store. When I got to the Fantasy “S” section, the spine of A Conjuring of Light, third book in the Shades of Magic series, smacked me in the eyeballs. A Conjuring of Light is the sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, which I reviewed last year. When I found AGoS it was […]