Book Reviews A blog request from Ted, and one that I was very happy to fulfill. In general, a blog review on a website is intended to fulfill multiple purposes. It should educate, answer questions, show the reader how to purchase the book, and hopefully entertain at the same time. If you’re writing a book [...]

So recently, I experienced two stories that triggered a line of thought regarding the slow prevalence of the MMORPG genre (massively multiplayer online role playing games) in our culture as well as the interesting things both stories did to push the idea past anything I’d experienced before. Diving right in, I recently watched an anime [...]

Summary Recently finished the Underland Chronicles, by Suzanne Collins (yes, the same Suzanne Collins of Hunger Games fame). When 11-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of his New York City apartment building, he hurtles into a dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders, [...]

Three Parts Dead is a book of speculative fiction, written by Max Gladstone. While this novel has elements of fantasy, I’d find it hard to classify it as straight fantasy. The novel also feels a lot like urban fantasy…but I’d hesitate to dump it into that category as well. In all honesty, Three Parts Dead sits [...]

I had an interesting experience last year. I was meeting a friend for dinner and drinks. When we got to the restaurant, I noticed that he was carrying around a battered copy of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger. I asked him if he was reading it for the first time and he told [...]