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LitStack Review: Borderline by Mishell Baker

Published on : 9 May, 20168 May, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

Borderline Mishell Baker Saga Press Release Date: March 1, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4814-5306-6 How to write a kick ass novel: 1) Create a main character that is flawed but grudgingly admirable; maybe have her be a double amputee due to a botched suicide attempt that puts her in a psychiatric center. […]

Review & Giveaway: Grail of the Summer Stars by Freda Warrington

Published on : 1 May, 20132 May, 2013 Published by : Sharon Browning

Grail of the Summer Stars Freda Warrington Tor Books First Edition: April 23, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-7653-1871-8 If you like your fantasy science fiction deeply layered, sparkling and ethereal, do I have a book for you. Grail of the Summer Stars, Freda Warrington‘s newest installment of her Aetherial Tales series packs a […]

On this day, October 20, in 1958, actor Viggo Mortensen was born in New York City. Although we could press the literary connection by pointing out that he is a published poet, we are really celebrating his birthday because, well, he’s Viggo Mortensen, who, among other roles, stepped in last minute to play Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, who chipped his tooth while filming and wanted to superglue it back in so they could keep shooting, who deflected a live dagger in a memorable fight scene, who campaigned to have Aragorn speak more Elvish in the films, who adopted the two horses he rode in the films because he had bonded with them… Today, he turns 62.

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.

LitStack Review: Borderline by Mishell Baker

Review & Giveaway: Grail of the Summer Stars by Freda Warrington

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