Princess Stories!
Review: Wishing Well, Wishing Well by Jubilee Cho This is a cute little middle grade princess story. It’s clearly written by an author who was into...
Happy Fourth!
Celebrating America not as it is, but as it could be and should be…and if we play our cards right will be. Have a good summer. Have some fireworks (but be...
Bad Decisions to End All Bad Decisions
Black Sails 4.4 Bad decisions: Ignore Eleanor Guthrie. Bad decision to end all bad decisions: Ally with Spain. Because that’s what Rogers is doing in his...
Is Dungeons & Dragons Good For You?
Those of us who have been in the hobby for a long time remember the satanic panic in the 1980s when D&D was encouraging Satanism, anti-social behavior, and...
On the Silver Screen
Review: November Rain by Shannon S. Thompson This is a short YA novel that reads like it might have started out as X-Men fan fic. This is not at all a...
Origins Roundup
Origins was fun, although I didn’t get in on the game I wanted. My fault, I left it too long. Board games, though. Got to try Spirit Island, which is by the...
Will Nassau Burn?
Black Sails 4.2 Bad decisions: Mutiny. It’s always a bad decision. Long John Silver is caught by somebody with a grudge against Teach. “You talk too much.”...
Herbivores are not Vegetarians
Horse people are constantly shocked when they find out their beloved grazers are not, in fact, above supplementing their diet. Herbivores are optimized to...
Fighting the Darkness
Review: The Failures by Benjamin Liar This is the kind of debut novel you know has at least a dozen novels in the trunk behind it. The Failures reminds me of...
Hi, From Origins
Another queued post. This time I’m in Columbus hanging out and attending Origins Game Fair. The next issue of Last Girls Club drops today - please check it...
Bad Decisions and Dirty Fighting
Black Sails 3.9 Bad decisions: Underestimate Eleanor Guthrie, trust Eleanor Guthrie, execute pirates. Vane is dead. This is a bad thing for the English not...
There Are No Wild Horses - Equines, Domestication, and Living Free
If I make the statement “There are no wild horses,” people look at me like I grew an extra head…or possibly a set of horse ears. Then people go “What about?”...
A Left Turn to Finland
Review: North is the Night by Emily Rath I’m not hugely familiar with Finnish mythology and the Kalevala, although Rath does admit she takes a fair number of...
Nebulas Retrospective
My impressions of Kansas City: Barbecue, giant shuttlecocks (trust me, the dragon is not nanotech. That is a seriously large shuttlecock), a weird electicism...
Bad Decisions Abound
There really should be a ship in this show called the Bad Decision. Black Sails 3.6 Bad decisions: Rackham returning to Nassau to get pardons for himself and...
Who is Bigfoot? Is There a Truth Behind the Legend?
I’ve gone Bigfoot hunting. Honestly, lots of people have. It’s not, of course, about finding Bigfoot. It’s an excuse to go out into the woods and explore,...
Bloodsuckers Unite
Review: The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas Science fictional vampire stories are less common than the fantastic or supernatural kind. Although to be...
Hi From Kansas City
Okay, to be honest, I wrote this before I left because I don’t think I’ll be stopping for a moment on Friday…when I will be in Kansas City, Missouri. (The...
No Saints, Just Sinners
Black Sails 3.5 Today’s bad decision: You always walk away with the money. So what if you have to change your name. She’s somewhat smart. You aren’t,...
We Reap What We Sow
Review: Parable of rhe Sower by Octavia E. Butler This is where I confess that I haven’t read as much Butler as I should have. Parable of the Sower is a less...