Alexandra’s Blog
Vampire Academy Review
In Vampire Academy Rose and Lissa must survive not only the ridiculous politics of their high school, but figure out who it is who is threatening Lissa before it is too late. Rose and Lissa are compli...
It’s Tissue Time: First Trailer for TFiOS
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItBvH5J6ss&w=560&h=315] As I write this I’m a little teary eyed. The first trailer for John Green’s smash hit The Fault in Our Stars just ...
The Night Circus
The Night Circus has some of the most beautiful imagery that we have come across in a long time. It sets up this beautiful playground but fails to deliver characters to populate it.
From The Dungeon: The Fellowship Goes to The Zoo Pt. 2
In which I continue to offer commentary on my old fanfiction. I have copied and pasted the text below and (even though it is physically painful) have refrained from correcting grammar or spelling erro...
First Official Photos from The Giver
It seems like our prayers have been answered! In our recent video looking at the upcoming movie adaptations of teen books (watch it here) Read and I discussed The Giver. The movie is slated to be rel...
Surviving The Room
The Disaster Artist was difficult to get through. Not because it wasn’t interesting, or well written. No, The Disaster Artist is an in depth look into the mind of an eccentric man. This book rec...
Adventures in the Library
I went to the library for the sole purpose of returning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Disaster Artist. With nothing to do an a few hours to kill I decided to browse around a bit. I ...
From The Dungeon: The Fellowship Goes to the Zoo
In my last blog post Tolkien and Me, I linked to my old fanfiction.net profile. I did this off-hand without looking at the fics that I had posted there. It was only when a friend of mine read the arti...
January Book Haul: Used Bookstores are my Kryptonite
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1NSHhQ7HM?showinfo=0&w=853&h=480] Receiving no books for Christmas sucks, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. My cousin and I hit up a Us...
Tolkien and Me: How The Lord of the Rings Changed My Life
Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contra...
Best Covers of 2013
They always tell you never judge a book by it’s cover. Sometimes that’s a lot harder than you think. There’s nothing like an awesome eye catching cover to cause me to zone in on my n...
The Desolation of “The Hobbit”
Middle Earth has always held a special place in my heart. So it only made sense for me to go to the midnight premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Here are my 2am thoughts on the matter. [y...
Garth Nix Reads Excerpt from Upcoming Abhorsen #4
WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS? The Abhorsen Trilogy was one of my favourite fantasy series when I was in high school. I knew that Garth Nix was writing a fourth book following Chlorr of the Mask, but...
Catching Fire
My quick thoughts on the new Catching Fire film.
Cain’s Blood
Unlike Chelsey who had no idea what she was getting into when she began The Strain I knew exactly what I was getting into when I finally willed myself into reading Geoffrey Girard’s Cain’s...