We’ve got a few more days before the end of the year to fit in some 2022 books, and John Scalzi’s COVID-era adventure has been showing up on quite a few Best-Of lists The start of the pandemic in early 2020 was a difficult time to navigate: lockdowns pending, fear of contagion all around, businesses
Okay we’re gonna rocket through the recap of episodes 221 and 222 of Lore Olympus in record time, just over ten minutes, because there’s STILL NOTHING HAPPENING. I kid, I kid. EXCEPT NOT REALLY. We love this webcomic to bits, the artwork is top notch, and the relationship between Hades and Persephone is the most
Happy Thanksgiving! (Or, if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thursday!) Somehow after last week’s recording we got on the subject of cookbooks, specifically the “Little House on the Prairie” cookbook that we checked out from the library a dozen times before we got smart and bought our own copies. And that led to a discussion
We’ve been promising to do this for a while, check out some of the amazing fan art we’ve found for Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth.)
The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do. It’s a day early for my usual weekly book review, but Halloween is the perfect day to review a new(ish) novella by T. Kingfisher that was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”. It’s not one of my favorite Poe short stories
She will bring death and destruction to all the enclaves in the world. The final book of Namoi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy picks up where Book 2 left off. Galadriel “El” Higgins, destined to be a force of destruction, has instead helped to save her fellow students, from the most terrified freshman to every well-connected graduate.
Our rule was, nobody knowingly left behind… The third book is out in Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb trilogy…which is, surprise, no longer a trilogy! Midway through writing the final book in the series the author realized that she now had a character who needed an entire book devoted to her story. Book Two ended with
I seem to have made a real habit of reading a Natasha Pulley novel during a big summer vacation. So it’s not a huge surprise that our trip to Yosemite National Park this year matched up almost perfectly with the release of Pulley’s latest novel, The Half Life of Valery K. And this book was
I never need an excuse to read one of Becky Chambers’s stories, with her whimsical world-building and unique brand of optimistic science-fiction. But after the first book in her Monk and Robot series won the Hugo award for Best Novella, it seems like a particularly good time to read the sequel. So let’s dive back