Yes! Wow! Yippee! How many ways can I show my excitement for A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones?  Well, I’m not going to go all Elizabeth Barrett Browning here and count the ways, but geez louise was this a wonderful gift to lovers of all things scary. Jones pulled out some heavy hitters […]

The Wizard of Oz as American Myth, by Alissa Burger, is definitely not for the casual Oz fan, or even for the casual fan of any type of mythology. Burger goes deep into seven of the incantations of the Oz story, covering L. Frank Baum’s novel, the movie classic, The Whiz, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, the […]

Ted Kosmatka’s new novel The Games is an entertaining ride into the future world of genetics, morality, and good old Japanese giant monster movies. Coming into this book never having read a word Kosmatka had previously written, I immediately enjoyed his prose style and the way he pulled me into the story, giving me reason […]

When it comes to Media Tie-Ins, I’m typically not much of a fan. I had read the Revenge of the Sith novel before the movie came out, and actually enjoyed it more than the movie. In the 70’s, I read a number of Planet of the Apes novels, and a few of the Alan Dean […]

I review books for a website called LibraryThing. If you are a booklover, you should check this site out. You can get books for free to review. You don’t get paid, but you can choose from large lists the books you are interested in reading and reviewing, and then the publisher sends them to you […]

William Gibson, A Literary Companion, is a is an interesting look into Gibson’s stories and novels. I came into this book having read just Neuromancer and his short story collection, Burning Chrome. Although lacking in background for the remaining books in the Sprawl setting and his other novels, I really didn’t see this as a […]