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Talking goats, the common cold and other ways to change history

Earthdivers V01: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones

Earthdivers V02: Ice Age! by Stephen Graham Jones

October 6, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Time travel books. I like the concept of them and even have enjoyed some time traveling TV shows and movies, and I have even enjoyed some books with the theme. However, they also can confuse the bejimminies out of me. The Earthdivers series had all the good stuff I like about books and time traveling books but also all the pieces that confuse me. And while things are fairly straight forward, when people start to backtrack on themselves, it gets confusing. Part of this is […]

A surprising twist on a fairly well-known story

A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Wow. I thought I knew where this was going, and then I didn’t. I had some doubts over some decisions that were made at the beginning, but then it turns out I was wrong! Looking back, of course those things were different! I’m going to try my best to avoid spoilers, but that’s going to be very difficult. The story starts off paralleling the Sherlock Holmes story of “A Study in Scarlet,” but with some slight twists. All right, you think, this is an […]

The Ever-Evolving Vampire Bloodlines

August 18, 2014 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

I have this problem where I always say I’m going to read the next volume or book in a series as soon as I can, but since I always have so many series on the go, it ends up being far too long before I actually get reading the next installment. In any case, it’s been a while since I’ve read any American Vampire, but fortunately I seemed to remember most of the characters and what-have-yous from the previous volumes when I picked up the […]

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