The Nature of a Pirate A. M. Dellamonica Tor Books Release Date: December 6, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-3451-0 In book three of the Hidden Sea Tales trilogy, we are reunited with San Francisco marine videographer Sophie Hansa and her continuing quest to unravel the mystery of Stormwrack, the world that might […]
California Edan Lepucki Little, Brown and Company Release Date: July 8, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-25081-8 I’ll admit it – I’m not reticent about jumping on the bandwagon sometimes, even if it’s just because someone says “Jump On!”. If I wasn’t, I would never have picked up Edan Lepucki’s post-apocalyptic story California, […]
Child of a Hidden Sea A. M. Dellamonica Tor Books Release Date: June 24, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7653-3449-7 Twenty-four year old Sophie Hansa just wants to learn about her biological mother. That’s why she had been hanging outside her mother’s place in San Francisco, trying to be inconspicuous. Their initial introduction […]
Life on Mars Tracy K. Smith Graywolf Press Release Date: January 1, 2011 ISBN 978-1-55597-584-5 I’ll admit it – I often have problems reading poetry. Don’t get me wrong. I love poetry, or at least the idea of poetry. It’s an idiom that is unique, that uses the look and […]
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.