For previous posts and future FFF topics check out my Friday Favorite Five page here. Favorite Five Books Featuring Assassins And we're back with Friday Favorite Fives, huzzah! With another topic that I'm not sure why I picked! Hahaha.... O.o One of the reoccurring character types in fantasy novels is the assassin. Not sure what … Continue reading Friday Favorite Five: Books Featuring Assassins
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Book Review: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
Summary: Fantasy legend Jane Yolen presents a wide-ranging offering of fractured fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed; where a spinner of straw into gold becomes a money-changer and the big bad wolf retires to a nursing home. Rediscover the … Continue reading Book Review: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
Book Review: The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker
Summary: The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All he wants is twenty more years to complete his life’s work. After that, he really doesn’t care. But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the philosopher is Saloninus – the greatest philosopher, … Continue reading Book Review: The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker
This Week in Reading: Keeping Things Open
Well, I'm planning on reading A LOT in December, but I don't know what all those books will be yet! I'm trying to just go with the flow. On the one hand I feel kind of bad because I have quite a few review books I need to get to, and maybe some of those … Continue reading This Week in Reading: Keeping Things Open
Monthly Wrap Up: November 2018
Wow, I can't believe November is over already! Only one more month of 2018 to go, I feel like most of this year has just flown right by. November was a weird month for me. At the beginning of it I was super busy with activities and then near the end of the month stuff … Continue reading Monthly Wrap Up: November 2018
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
This Week in Reading: Totally Off The Tracks
Well, last week I did at least finish a few things! I wrapped up Daughter of the Forest (loved it!) and How to Fracture a Fairy Tale. I also read two other books not on my list (a novella by K.J. Parker - The Devil You Know, and Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews) and … Continue reading This Week in Reading: Totally Off The Tracks
Book Review: Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw
Summary: Contemporary fantasy in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, whose family has been keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well for generations. When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is unexpectedly called to Paris to present at a medical conference, she expects nothing more exciting than professional discourse on zombie reconstructive … Continue reading Book Review: Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw
#NaNoWriMo Update – 11/16/2018
Well, ok, so I got started really late with my writing project. I spent the beginning of the week recovering a bit from socializing over the weekend and didn't really buckle down to write until Thursday night. Whoops! I'm not focusing on being 'behind' or even word count. My only goal is to work on … Continue reading #NaNoWriMo Update – 11/16/2018
Book Review: An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
Summary: Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their … Continue reading Book Review: An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
Way Too Fantasy 