Obligatory Gaming Post: Nier

It has been a month since I’ve posted about video games.  Mostly this is because I haven’t been playing too many.  An surfeit of hobbies and responsibilities coupled with a dearth of free time equate to some judicious pruning.  It doesn’t help that the kind of games I like to play, RPGs especially, require a [...]

Review: The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman

The Painted Darkness Brian James Freeman Cemetery Dance, 2010 I’m on a bit of a horror kick again and was looking for something dark to read. After scouring the web, checking out Laird Barron’s Imago Sequence and Other Stories from the library, and being disappointed that we had no collections of Clarke Ashton Smith or [...]

A Dose of Awesome

Sometimes you come across something that speaks to you on a primal level.  You see this think and your world is changed…forever.  This is what happened to me yesterday when I saw this: BAM! Your life will never be the same again!  Super Dinosaur is the latest book, this time an all-ages title, by the [...]

Review: Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

Behemoth Scott Westerfeld Simon Pulse, 2010 Though its been a little over a year since I read Leviathan I was still pretty excited to get by hands on Scott Westefeld’s Behemoth. Before I even describe the novel I need to take a moment to say that whoever was in charge of cover art for this [...]

Thoughts on Rereading A Game of Thrones

I remember being mesmerized on my first read through of George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. Newly returned to the fantasy genre and having subsided on diet of Robert Jordan, Raymond Feist, and a certain pony-tailed fellow who shall remain nameless for my first forays into fantasy as a teenager reading A Game [...]

Review: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The Thief Megan Whalen Turner Greenwillow, 1996 (pb. 2005) So, I’ve had a difficult time reading Game of Thrones. I’ll go into further details about that when I finish and manage to put together my thoughts. In the meantime it should be suffice to say that I had to interrupt my reread with a little [...]

Short Fiction Review: The Crawling Sky

The Crawling Sky by Joe R. Lansdale Subterranean Press Magazine, Spring 2011 (free here) …And let me tell you, he is not the God of Jesus, he is the God of David, and the angry city killers and man killers and animal killers of the Old Testament. He is constantly jealous and angry and if [...]

Hood’s Breath! What a ride! (The Crippled God)

The Crippled God Steven Erikson Tor, 2011 I remember all those years ago, lurking in the wotmania OF Forums looking for something, anything, to read while I waited anxiously for the next Wheel of Time novel. I remember reading glowing posts about this guy named Steven Erikson and his first book Gardens of the Moon. [...]

March Summary

Read (or listened to) and reviewed in March: The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones The Black God’s Kiss by C. L. Moore The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Not too much else to say [...]

Primetime Confessions: Kyle XY

I have a friend who, when we were in our primary school days, confessed that once while staying home sick for got hooked on soaps. This is a statement I would never let that friend live down. While I have never been the most discriminate of television watchers there are two things I’ve always managed [...]