Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle Book Four – “Inheritance” Announced

I was thrilled to read the other week that book four in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle is coming out on November 8, 2011.  If you’re a fan of fantasy fiction, and haven’t yet read Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr I highly recommend them.  It’s worth noting that they’re classified as Young Adult fiction, something which might [...]

Book Review: The Nature Connection by Clare Walker Leslie

Book Review: The Nature Connection – An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families and Classrooms by Clare Walker Leslie304 pages; 7 3/4 x 9 1/4  ISBN: 978-1-60342-531-5Clare Walker Leslie is an artist and author of several books on nature journaling. Her newest book, The Nature Connection, is a workbook aimed at getting kids outdoors and exploring. [...]

Zombies, Vampires, Ghosts and (Dark) Angels; Reviews Pending.

When it rains, it pours.  I get tons of book review requests in my inbox; many (most, it seems at times) aren’t for books in the sci-fi/fantasy/horror genre, so they go straight to the trash (the emails that is, not the books.  I don’t usually get those in advance).  Recently however, I received several requests [...]

Participating in ‘One Book, One Twitter’

Jeff Howe, an editor at Wired magazine has started a project called ‘One Book, One Twitter‘; a world-wide book club of sorts in which the participants will post their comments following each section as Twitter feeds.  I just heard about this on NPR and decided to join since the book which won the nomination for [...]

Lisey’s Story by Stephen King – Book Review

From the publisher: “Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark . . . Lisey Landon shared a profound and sometimes frightening intimacy with her husband, Scott, a celebrated bestselling novelist — and a man with many secrets. One was the place where his gifts of imagination came from, a place that could [...]

Review – Un Lun Dun, by China Miéville

Review: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville; Del Rey Books, 2007 China Miéville‘s fourth novel, Un Lun Dun, is his first for young adult audiences. Miéville’s previous 4 novels, winners of the Arthur C. Clarke and Bram Stoker awards, are often categorized into the sub-genre of ‘steam-punk’. Un Lun Dun on the other hand, reads [...]