Review: Apocrypha by Catherynne M. Valente
Apocrypha (Amazon, Goodreads, Website) by Catherynne M. Valente (Amazon, Goodreads, Website, Twitter) Published by Prime Books, 2005 Apocrypha: Catherynne M. Valente’s first full-length poetry collection, where freaks, emperors, bodhisattvas, beasts, witches, wicked stepmothers, Greek heroes, told seductively and wickedly in poem and prose, jostle and vie for supremacy. It contains the long prose poem, Z, […]
Review: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Amazon, Goodreads, Website) by Catherynne M. Valente (Amazon, Goodreads, Website, Twitter) Published by Feiwel & Friends, May 2011 Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September […]
Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Amazon, Goodreads) by Ransom Riggs (Amazon, Goodreads, Twitter, Website) Published by Quirk Books, June 2011 A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling […]
Review: Alice in Verse The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland by J.T. Holden
Have you ever wondered… Who really stole the Queen’s tarts? Whatever did become of the Walrus & the Carpenter after their nefarious jot down the briny beach with the little Oysters? Is there truly any sense to be found in nonsense at all? Come follow Alice down the rabbit-hole once again as Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic […]
Review: Vampyre Kisses by Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
Vampyre Kisses is an enthralling story about a young woman named Faith, who was content with her life, but deep down craved more excitement. Then a mysterious man named Trent enters her life and everything changes. Surprising to Faith, Trent is a green-eyed vampire from Ireland. She is even more surprised to find out that she is […]
Review: The Habitation of the Blessed by Catherynne M. Valente
Title: The Habitation of the Blessed: A Dirge for Prester John Volume 1 Author: Catherynne M. Valente Publisher: Night Shade Books Date (to be) Published: November 2010 Synopsis: (from publisher’s website) This is the story of a place that never was: the kingdom of Prester John, the utopia described by an anonymous, twelfth-century document which captured the imagination of the […]
Review: Regret by Gabrielle Faust
Title: Regret Author: Gabrielle Faust Publisher: Dark Regions Press Date (to be) Published: October 2010 Synopsis: (from publisher) Where Did It Come From? Gabrielle sent me a preview copy to review. Why Did I Choose It? I love her writing and couldn’t wait to read something different from her. My Review: This was one that I didn’t really know much about […]
Treasured Thursdays — The Lucifer Principle
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 10. The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom This book is one […]
Review: Eternal Vigilance III — Bound in Blood by Gabrielle Faust
Title: Eternal Vigilance III – Bound in Blood Author: Gabrielle Faust Publisher: Immanion Press Date (to be) Published: September 2010 Synopsis: (for the series) What if the fate of humanity lay in the hands of one vampire? After a century-long Sleep, Tynan Llywelyn has awoken to find the world he once knew utterly obliterated by a brutal war of epic […]
Treasured Thursdays — Forever
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 9. Forever by Pete Hamill This book follows a young boy of […]
Treasured Thursdays — Men of Tomorrow
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 8. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the […]
Treasured Thursdays — The Dark Fields
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 7. The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn This book while not always […]
Treasured Thursdays — House of Leaves
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 6. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danieleweski. This book made it […]
Treasured Thursdays — The Pillars of the Earth
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 5. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett This is a sweeping […]
Treasured Thursdays — Brunelleschi’s Dome
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 4. Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King My mother […]
Treasured Thursdays — Beggars in Spain
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 4. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress Synopsis: What if people no longer […]
Review: An Unfinished Score by Elise Blackwell
Title: An Unfinished Score Author: Elise Blackwell Publisher: Unbridled Books Date (to be) Published: April 2010 Synopsis: (from publisher) As she prepares dinner for her husband and their extended family, Suzanne hears on the radio that a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead. Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor. Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied with […]
Treasured Thursdays — Frankenstein
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 3. Frankenstein. Need I say more? Surprisingly, especially given my love of macabre/science/horror/etc., […]
Treasured Thursdays — Generation X
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 2. Douglas Coupland’s first book, Generation X, was not a book I expected to […]
Review: Eternal Vigilance — The Death of Illusions by Gabrielle S. Faust
Title: Eternal Vigilance 2: The Death of Illusions Author: Gabrielle S. Faust Publisher: Immanion Press Date (to be) Published: January 2009 Synopsis: (from the Publisher’s website) In the year 2111 Tynan Llywelyn, the forsaken philosophical leader of the Immortal vampire race, awoke after a century’s Sleep to a world decimated by war. Drawn into a new societal structure bitterly divided between […]
Review: Eternal Vigilance — From Deep Within the Earth by Gabrielle S. Faust
Title: Eternal Vigilance Author: Gabrielle S. Faust Publisher: Immanion Press Date (to be) Published: April 2008 Synopsis: (from Publisher’s website) After a century of Sleep, Tynan Llywelyn has awoken to find the world he once knew utterly obliterated by a brutal war of epic proportions. In a new apocalyptic society, bitterly divided by magic and technology, the Tyst Empire has found […]
The Holiday Haul
With the move this year, I didn’t expect to get very many non-move related items, but it turns out that I got a number of awesome things. I received a book light and money towards books, which couldn’t have been a better gift. The light in my room is not conducive to reading for long periods of time at all, […]
Review: He was destined to rebel and destined to lose, but that does not make his fall any less tragic. Heaven’s Darkest Hour – Joseph J. Blaikie
Title: Heaven’s Darkest Hour Author: Joseph J. Blaikie Publisher: Comfort Publishing Date (to be) Published: May 15, 2009 Summary (from back of book): Heaven’s Darkest Hour tells the tale of Lucifer’s journey from beloved son of God to the ruthless embodiment of evil known as Satan. The Prince of Light’s path to darkness winds from the Garden of […]
Review: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
You are mine, I am yours; you may be sure of this.You’ve been locked inside my heart,the key has been thrown away;within it, you must always stay. (This appears twice in the book, the first time I truly loved these words, and the second time, I knew that the first time I had only barely understood them.) Title: The Gargoyle Author: […]
Review: But where will you hide? — Labyrinth by Catherynne M. Valente
Title: The LabyrinthAuthor: Catherynne M. ValenteSummary: (from Amazon) Here Monsters are hidden… A lyrical anti-quest through a conscious maze without center, borders, or escape–a dark pilgrim’s progress through a landscape of vicious Angels, plague houses, crocodile-prophets, tragic chess-sets, and the mind of an unraveling woman, driven on by the mocking guide who seeks to destroy as much […]
