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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...
5 Reasons to Read The Diviners
I’ve loved everything I’ve ever read from Libba Bray. She knows just how to keep you interested, her characters and plot getting equal time. And let’s not forget her range. From her ...
5 Supernatural Serial Killers in Teen Fiction
Serial killers make for a creepy crawly read, but they don’t feature very prominently in the teen fiction. These books have taken the horror stereotype and gone one step further, creating supern...
Evil Overlords in Teen Books
We all grew up with evil overlords in our fairy tales. They were like the broth of our story soup. As we got older they began to fade out of our stories, replaced with the more complex evils, and dark...
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...
Tolkien Didn’t Write the Desolation of Smaug
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhvh7XNbn_k?showinfo=0] If Tolkien wrote blockbusters… he did not write the Desolation of Smaug. Struggling to make the movie 2 1/2 hours long, endearing...
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.
The Hunger Games is Catching Fire
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIiVqhmKSIk?showinfo=0] My reaction after coming back from the Catching Fire. I was so excited, and here is why!
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...
Book Haul: The Mysterious Box D
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iak07WWaaUo?showinfo=0&w=853&h=480] What’s in the the Mysterious Box D, buried deep in my basement. I wanted to know.
Strained: The Horror of a TV Show Turned Novel
I was promised horror, discomfort and a lingering sense of dread. What I got was bludgeoned into boredom by pages upon pages of unnecessary details and irrelevant points of view that slowly sucked the...
Thor 2 Review in One Picture
Thor 2 Review I loved Thor 2. Was it deep? No. But it was hilarious, and Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth’s chemistry lit up the screen. The end of the movies can be summed up in one picture...