I’ve been teaching Brit lit for about 13 years now, and every year we tackle Beowulf. And every year I psych my kids up for the idea that this is not a bad poem, nor does it feel like you’re reading a poem. No, this is bad ass stuff. This is tough guys killing monsters and taking names…at least that’s what it usually is. This year I had a student teacher and he showed both my students and myself just how boring Beowulf can be, if […]
All the Single Ladies
In a world soaked in magic, in a city choked with people, in a University cluttered with men, it’s going to take a woman to set things right. Read about it here.
Second Verse, Same As the First
Sam Sisavath’s second book of survival picks up where the first book left off…and I predict that this is how all the books are going to go. There’s going to be a metaphorical carrot of safety dangled in front of them, they’ll go for it and that safety will be revoked…or so it seems to go. Chapter by chapter we get a story told from the perspective of different characters from varying sides (good guys, bad guys, undead peeps). We have Will and Danny, […]
Ripping Stitches Among The Close-Knit
A powerful stand-alone from the author of one of my favorite horror trilogies. While it’s a horror story with a lethal sexual parasite, the conventional bits of small-town secrets and domestic strife are the far more intriguing. The horror story almost gets in the way.