Whimsy Moon Who doesn’t like a touch of whimsy in their lives? Click on the link and look at the designs on their page and you will end up ordering something or the other. The designs are quirky and just plain, whimsical. They delivered on time and the product arrived in perfect condition. I found…
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A Review Overdue Series — Why the Notebookush Box is the Box For You!
I had been waiting for the Mystery Bag for some time now. It all began when I viewed the cutest thing on NB’s Facebook page. It is called the Reader’s Pet and you will completely understand why I went gaga over it if you make a big deal about reading hard copies of books….
April 2017 Wrap-Up
I was mostly happy with this installment. Kate seemed back to her true kickass self. However, her getting together with Curran reminds me of what happened when Kate & Castle finally came together on the show, Castle. Too smooth and too sweet to be real! Steven Brust is one of my favorite authors….
Weirding It Out without Weird Enough: Dune Re-Read Update #3
Brief Recap We meet Kynes, the Emperor appointed ecologist on Arrakis who is also a whole lot more but not letting on. People are scared of him and by people, I mean Harkonnen spies! He plans on hating the Atreides but they are just too cute and cuddly for him to loathe. Oh, and he…
I Review for You, A Treasure Trove of 17 Stories about Chess-Playing Unicorns, Presidential Candidates Stuck on Mars, & Everything in Between!
Unicorn Variations by Roger Zelazny If an anthology starts as strong as this one did, then there’s no way I would not continue reading it! Consider the human species about to become extinct and our fate hinging on a chess match between a bartender, a unicorn, and a sasquatch. Fire Watch by Connie Willis I…
Roseanne Montillo’s, The Lady & Her Monsters, Takes us Behind the Scenes & Plops us Down Right into Mary Shelley’s Life
Oh, what a sad life Mary Shelley led! The book follows Mary’s life right from the moment of her birth and touches on every source of inspiration that led to the writing of Frankenstein. The story would leave Mary for a while at some points and follow other people who were vital to the writing…
Guest-Blogger Icky Loves the Heck Outta the First Book in the Thursday Next Series by Jasper Fforde
As Icky will tell you later, I browbeat and bullied her into reading this book because I knew how perfect it’d be for her. And what do you know? I was right! Without further ado… Background Quite similar to the phenomenon of writer’s block, there is a thing called reader’s block. The symptoms include not…
When is The Last Werewolf not the last werewolf? Reading the Sequel, Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
Turn-Offs So, the last werewolf wasn’t the last one by far! In fact, there was a group of werewolves, just waiting to be discovered. Then there were the new ones that Talulla kept making and they arrived at exactly the right moment. One of the things that turned me off about this book. The cliffhanger…
Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is Actually Science Porn Disguised as Dinosaur Fiction and Oh. So. Good!
So. Much. Fun. Saying that about a book where more than half the characters get eaten by prehistoric predators brought back to life through genetic engineering might seem weird. But then, I have never kept my love for dinosaurs a secret! When I first received the book from Online Books Outlet, I wasn’t expecting much…
Eight Reasons Why You Should Not Read The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
This is not a review. This is me gushing about the fact that The Bonehunters did not disappoint. However, you should avoid reading this series, if you are not interested in the following: It Has Dragons: The book had two ghosts who haunted lizard skeletons, were compulsive liars, had a secret agenda,…
Much Fun Was Had at British Council’s #ShakespeareLives but My Heart was Won Over by Puck’s Farewell Speech!
So, I got to go to the British Council’s event that was a part of their initiative known as Shakespeare Lives. From what I understood, Shakespeare Lives is based on an attempt to re-imagine the Bard’s works for a modern audience. To that end, they chosen emerging artists from UK and had them reinterpret a…
The Grim Company isn’t Grim at all, so I won’t be Keeping it Company!
This review is going to be a list of what I didn’t like: The book’s name: not original! That I could not relate to a single character: I wanted to kick Cole. If he was supposed to come off as a character who behaves like an ass and yet readers would end up loving him,…
