Review: The Nativity Collection by Robert J. Morgan

The Nativity Collection by Robert J. Morgan is a set of six stories beautifully packaged in a medium size gift book. Each story houses some gem of the true meaning of Christmas. That meaning which we seem to search for amongst the decorations, school plays, and snow every year. At first I thought the stories [...]

Review: Steamypunk #s 1-5 (adult)

Steampunk Challenge Review # 2 Five cutely bound stories, like chocolate in a gift box, seem the perfect package for erotica. Each volume was published by www.steamypunk.net I purchased these a while back, but only read the first one. Since I’m using this Steampunk Challenge to work my way through the TBR pile, I thought [...]

Review: The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum by Penny Simpson

The Banquet of Ester Rosenbaum by Penny Simpson This is an odd novel, though I was fascinated by it. Time plays very funny within its pages and I don’t think I truly understood why until I got to the end. It was something I should have suspected from the beginning, but I guess I was [...]

Review: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker

Steampunk Challenge Review # 1 The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker Subterranean Press, 2009 This was a fun novella. A romp, if you will. Gothic estates, silly costumes, funny sex, cool Steampunk gadgets (that work within the plot), and a happy resolution. I purchased it from Amazon, and it sat on my shelf [...]

Review: The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis (SPOLIERS)

SPOILERS ahead… I started this novel with mixed expectations, but I kept reading. I am fascinated by the concept of a ‘thin place,’ which the author says “is a term from Celtic mythology” and “is a place where the membrane between this world and the other – the world of spirit, that part of life we [...]

Review: The Folk Keeper

The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley This is the story an orphan girl who learned real early that boys get the better end of the stick. So she cut her hair, changes her name, and passes herself off as a boy. She also, through a mix of natural talent, gossip, and bribery won herself the [...]

It’s A BOOK!

This book ROCKS! Talking about e-books vs. print these days is like just into the middle of a Creationism vs. Evolution debate. The response range from the ridiculous, to the heated, to the sublime.  Well, I’d like to add Lane Smith‘s It’s a Book to the sublime category in the e-book vs. print commentary.  With [...]

Poetry: Here by Wisława Szymborska

The first time I came across Wislawa Szymborska’s work it was in a title called Nonrequired Reading published in 2002, this would have been just after I started working at the book store. I was draw to this collection of prose pieces because the author’s random meditations on books that she read were similar to [...]

Blood Soup by Kelly A. Harmon

Blood Soup by Kelly A. Harmon My rating: 4 of 5 stars “…he found the literature could sometimes take his mind off the pain.” Now there is a true statement. You can always find them in good fiction. I had wanted to read Blood Soup since I saw it reviewed elsewhere on the web. Its [...]

Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie

Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is Classic Crusie and it has been so long since we’ve had a single author book from her it was like drinking a cool glass of water ( or was it Amaretto, Andie prefers). I can’t really tell you how many times [...]