Before Joe started doodling and I started typing up reviews, I had a dream: I was singing softly, quietly, to myself as I worked, yet my voice echoed and was amplified and the gentle tune was heard near and far… Read More ›
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Book Reviews
“You Have to Hold Some Space for Yourself”: Every River Runs to Salt by Rachael K. Jones
“Let me tell you something about the Pacific. Fill your lungs with it just once, and all your responsibilities will dissolve, and you’ll waltz drunken circles with the surf in your arms. Try this on for size: the gift of abandon.”
Gods Become Real: Snow Over Utopia by Rudolfo A. Serna
Snow Over Utopia is a must-read for fans of apocalyptic fiction, dark fantasy, or sci-fi.
Review: A Giant’s Heart by Eliza Langhans from Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #39
I have been a long-time subscriber to Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, from Small Beer Press, and I have even been fortunate enough to appear in these fine pages on a couple occasions. I find the publication intoxicating. I… Read More ›
Book Review: FINDING BABA YAGA by Jane Yolen
Most books are really intended to be read once, only. The parts play out in a single direction, and the twists twist and the turns turn and by the end, all the accumulated surprises and insights converge into a single… Read More ›
Fantasy with Attitude: The Gallows Black by Sam Sykes
If you want an action-packed fantasy beach read, this is the one. Told by Sal The Cacophony, (think Guy Pierce in Lockout) a hitwoman with a magic hand cannon of a gun that fires rounds fueled by the ashes of… Read More ›
The Eternity of Art: Craig Laurence Gidney’s A Spectral Hue
The town of Shimmer, Maryland, has drawn various African American artists for centuries. Although the artists used different mediums, from quilts to dolls to oil, they all use the same hauntingly unique, shifting color of a marsh bell orchid to… Read More ›
“The Knife in our Soul”: Robert Brockway’s The Unnoticeables
Whether it’s Binary, HTML, Spanish, Cuneiform, or Sanskrit, there’s no denying language is how we store knowledge and no matter what someone says, we have no language to accurately describe the concept of God. Alpha and omega, Allah, Michael and… Read More ›
All Hail the King: A Beginner’s Guide to Stephen King
if you’re new to Stephen King, where do you start? Which of his 50+ novels are worth reading? Joe and I share our favorites.