The Rest of Us Just Live Here Patrick Ness Harper Teen Release Date: October 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-240316-2 Did you ever read a book, or a series of books where strange, supernatural things happened in what would otherwise be considered “normal” towns, and wonder what the other, more mundane folks […]
I Am Princess X Cherie Priest Arthur A. Levine Books Release Date: May 26, 2015 ISBN 978-0-545-62085-7 Is there anything Cherie Priest cannot do? I first got to “know” her through her steampunk alternate history novel Boneshaker, which took me surprise and by storm. I read three other of her […]
So, I had oral surgery earlier this week, and while I’m recovering nicely, it really threw me for a loop and now I’m playing catch-up. In order to maintain my sanity, I’m going to recycle a Gimbling in the Wabe from 2013, rather than contrive something new. This post […]
Doll Bones Holly Black Margaret K. McElderry Books First Edition: May 7, 2013 ISBN 978-1-4169-6398-1 Now this is the kind of horror story I wish was around when I was a kid. Instead, I got to obsess on flying monkeys. Zachary Barlow is 12 years old, and even though his […]
No One Could Have Guessed the Weather Anne-Marie Casey Amy Einhorn Books First Edition: June 13, 2013 ISBN 978-0399160219 When asked to name a social network, most people would probably say Facebook, Twitter or perhaps reddit. A few may even mention MySpace or Google+. Right now, when I think “social […]
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children Kirstin Cronn-Mills Flux/Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd First Edition: October 1, 2012 ISBN 978-0-7387-3251-0 Elizabeth Williams is your typical introverted high school nerd girl, looking forward to the freedom that graduation should bring. Paige, her Gwen Stefani-esque BFF since kindergarten, makes sure that Elizabeth is not a […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.