When winter comes, where do things go? When winter comes what happens to the plants and flowers? And what happens to mice? And all of the creatures that run around during the other seasons? And in When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan, you have a sweet rhyming story about where things go and what happens to the plants and such when, “when winter comes and the cold wind blows.” Susan Gaber has these delightful illustrations. You are able to read them along with the […]
I loved it, even with my surface knowledge of Star Trek
Okay, so my full knowledge of Star Trek can be summed up thusly: Picard face-palms, that one dude sits in chairs like he’s hurdling, and redshirts are cannon fodder. And honestly? That’s all I needed to know to enjoy the hell out of Redshirts. Those with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek (which I’m willing to bet is more than a few of you) will probably fall head over heels in love. The title may pretty quickly clue you in – Redshirts takes place in a world […]
Damned by high expectations – An ARC review
Full disclosure up front: This was an ARC that I won in a contest on GoodReads. This book is not released until February. I am a HUGE fantasy nerd. The words “epic fantasy series” make me happy. When I won a contest to read what was touted as the fantasy star of 2019, I was thrilled. Then I read the inside cover where it is described as “Uniting the worldbuilding of a Brandon Sanderson with the storytelling verve of a Patrick Rothfuss”and suddenly I was […]
Ringing in the New Year with Deadpool
The first of my Christmas swag up for review, Side Pieces is the second volume in the Spiderman/Deadpool series, the first of which I adored. Lacking the overall story that drove Isn’t It Bromantic and instead gathering together some of the additional material that’s bookended other stories, Side Pieces is more hit and miss than its predecessor, but not enough to make it completely unenjoyable in itself. Taking in the making of a Deadpool movie, a flashback to some election tampering, an encounter with Penn […]