Finishing What You Started… J.T. Nicholas
Writing a book is hard. That should come as no surprise to anyone reading a book blog. I’d be willing to guess that most people who love reading have tried their hand at writing (after…
Writing a book is hard. That should come as no surprise to anyone reading a book blog. I’d be willing to guess that most people who love reading have tried their hand at writing (after…
On the eve of the release of his new novel Echo Cycle, a captivating,and terrifyingly realistic vision of near future Europe that\’s equal parts alternate history adventure, science fiction pot boiler and dystopian conspiracy thriller,…
The forests are wild and full of unknown creatures. It’s best to be prepared for all encounters—and now you can be! The Troll Guide by Swedish creator Anders Skoglind, translated by Paul Fischer and arriving…
The 13th Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace, in a novel written by Sophie Aldred (who played Ace alongside Sylvester McCoy in the BBC TV series). Sophie joins Katy in the studio to talk…
I’ll admit that I wasn’t very excited by the prospect of reviewing another zombie book. The genre has been done to death in books, movies and on television and really has to be quite special…
The Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt). I read this vintage Nancy Drew novel in third grade and it whetted my appetite for series books, especially episodes written in the 1930s…
Life, according to the philosophically minded, is all about the little things. Those moments that happen between the soul crushing and heart-warming events that are supposed to define and shape our existence are, more often…
Dark Horse, Netflix, and Universal Content Productions present The Making of The Umbrella Academy! Based on the award-winning comics series by Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel…
I started reading Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire just before the latest installment in Star Wars cinema history, The Rise Of Skywalker and much like Rebecca Roanhorse’s excellent novel Resistance Reborn, this offers another…
The older I get, the more appealing nostalgia becomes and the more I yearn for the much simpler era of my childhood and youth. I’m not naïve enough to believe that the past was all…
While it’s become almost de rigueur for the masses to proclaim some sort of passing allegiance to the “nerd” cause, a devotion that they can pick up and drop at will when the mood suits…
There are moments when the level of my ignorance is both shocking and shameful. Before this exquisite tome arrived, Graham Humphreys was unknown to me. Or so I thought. The thing is, while I didn’t…