Let’s see… Steampunk, alternate Victorian London, Reptilian Royalty, diabolical Anarchists . What’s not to like. “The Bookman” is a terrorist who uses exploding books as weapons. Our hero is “The Orphan” who has lost his love to an explosion set off the Bookman at a crowded launch of a space probe to Mars. In his grief, the Orphan is determined to find out the truth about his love’s death and to find out who the Bookman is. His quest takes him into the heart […]
An Oldie But Goodie…Vampire Tale
This is one of my old favorites – just reread it so I thought I would write a review. “Blood Price” is the first of the “Blood Books”series. I would recommend them all – they form a good story arc. If you want to keep on going, Tanya Huff has follow on stories in the “Smoke and Ashes” series that I would also recommend. This book falls into the category of “urban fantasy” but it is an early example of the genre as it was written […]
My brother wrote three novels and I read them, with mixed results
A few years ago, my brother Nick made a movie called Bomb Squad about four siblings who discover they have super powers. The story was based on one we imagined as kids, basically the answer to “what if the four of us had super powers?” Which ones would we have? What would our names be? What would our “hero” names be? What battles would we fight? My bro got into filmmaking and just went ahead and made the film. He wrote the script, storyboarded, got friends and colleagues […]
CBR Book Exchange
Had a lovely surprise waiting for me in the mail today – got my CBR Book Exchange gift! Thank you so much, Siege, and Happy Holidays everyone!
One Final Textbook Until the New Year
One last textbook review for the year! At least that’s what I’m telling myself. In Judith Rubin’s second edition of Approaches to Art Therapy, she invites various authors and therapists to contribute chapters on their different theoretical approaches towards art therapy. These are divided into various subsets, including the psychodynamic approaches, humanistic, psycho-educational, integrative, and systemic or group therapy approaches. I won’t get into all the details about that stuff here as it is basically just running through my studies for school, but my full […]
More like Unreadable
The Age of the Unthinkable is the most underwhelming book I’ve read this year. It was written by Joshua Cooper Ramo who is a former foreign editor for Time magazine. I assumed that meant the book would be insightful and interesting but it was not. The Age of the Unthinkable reads like a really long magazine article but not even a Time article. It is way more sensationalist and bold without any facts to support the assertions. Ramo originally earned renown as the creator of […]
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