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Three Graphic Novels for Kids
We’re just back from Heroes Con, a huge comic convention in North Carolina, where hundreds of comic and graphic novel writers and artists display their talents. These three caught our attention as...
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Two Graphic Novels for Grown-ups
Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy A. Bastian This graphic novel stars a one-eyed young woman who has adventures while searching for her lost father, a not uncommon kid plot. The cover copy says that the...
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Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
Normally I wouldn’t attempt a book described on the cover as “The Godfather meets Game of Thrones,” but Paolo Bacigalupi has written several wonderful novels in which terrible things happen. His...
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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Somewhere around twenty-five thousand years ago, or perhaps about thirty years ago, on a nameless island paradise, a nameless woman had a child with a man who called himself Victory. Victory had the...
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Saint Death’s Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
We’ve been wanting to order this book since it won the World Fantasy Award last year. The author is a fairly young and very exuberant woman, who began writing the novel when she was in college in...
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After the Forest by Kell Woods
This is a first novel by Kell Woods, an Australian librarian turned writer. I chose it because the title reminded me of Jack’s (as in the Beanstalk) song from ‘Into the Woods,’ which is called ‘After...
View ArticleCatherine Lundoff Reading Cancelled
Unfortunately, the reading that Catherine Lundoff was to do on October 23rd has been cancelled. Hopefully we will be able to reschedule with her in the near future. The post Catherine Lundoff Reading...
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Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
I almost never read horror. I don’t like threatening bleak landscapes, lurking ghosts and witches, or (especially) intricately-described gruesome murders. Looking Glass Sound actually has all of those...
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Masters of Death by Olivie Blake
Olivie Blake seemingly sprang into a writing career overnight with her New York Times bestselling Atlas Series. In fact, she’s written several stand-alone novels as Olivie Blake and several more...
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The Parliament by Aimee Pokwatka
I picked this book up because it has an interesting cover, of a silhouetted owl with glowing red eyes, and because Aimee Pokwatka’s previous book, Self Portrait with Nothing was recommended somewhere....
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