Miles Taylor and the Golden Cape
Miles Taylor and the Golden Cape: Attack of the Alien Horde by Robert Venditti Illustrated by Dusty Higgins All over the world, parents tell their scared children, “Don’t worry. Gilded will protect...
View ArticleA Bandit’s Tale
A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket by Deborah Hopkinson Rocoo Zaccaro might be a scoundrel. He was denounced by the leading man of his Southern Italian town. His father...
View ArticleThe Creative Fire
The Creative Fire: Book One of Ruby’s Song By Brenda Cooper Ruby grew up gray. She will service the ship. Without the grays, nothing would happen. There would be no clean water. There would be no...
View ArticleA Year of Books: Decent, Meh, and Ugh
Not every book we read is gosh darn pretty good. Most are; we don’t typically waste our time reading books that aren’t good. We’ve got too much to read to waste our time on crap. This post will cover...
View ArticleA Year of Books: Pretty Gosh Darn Good Books, Ya Know, Part 1
We read lots this year, and I don’t mind that in the least. This chunk of books includes books that we enjoyed and would readily recommend, but didn’t make the best of what we read this year. These...
View ArticleA Year of Books: Pretty Gosh Darn Good Books, Ya Know, Part 2
OK, so we now own a library. Next step: cool ladder. Welcome to part two of the books we read this year that are pretty darn good, don’t ya know? Let’s get to it! It looks like a spy novel. Don’t be...
View ArticleA Year of Books: Novels of a Graphic Nature
Jon here! Helen isn’t a big fan of graphic storytelling; she says all the pictures distract her and she gets lost in the details. Maybe opening up a comic turns her into an autistic individual? I...
View ArticleA Year of Books: EXILED!
We have another shelf. That’s also my nightstand of doom. WOO!We’ve just gone through the shelf of all shelves, the “what we read this year” shelf. We also have a “to be read” shelf. This isn’t the...
View ArticleReview: Horizons
Normally I would wait for any reviews until the end of the year for a roundup of “Year of Books” posts. If I read a good book by a small publisher or lesser-known author, though, I’ll probably make an...
View ArticleA Good Book is a Mirror
I just finished reading Still Life with Tornado by A. S. King. This is a Good Book. It paints a chillingly accurate picture of spousal abuse from the eyes of a child with a stunningly original...
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