February 5, 2018
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with young adult author A.M. Rose, whose debut, The Road to…
February 3, 2018
Holy cannoli, Batman, how is it February? The mind boggles. What a month we’ve had! If you want a nice, long trip down memory lane, browse through the Roundup archives for a quick reference to all of our writers’ fabulous work from last month (and the months before that). Now that the weekend has arrived, kick back and relax. Maybe…
February 2, 2018
Hello and good day and prepare yourselves for the March selection for book club, as voted by you, our readers! Daggerspell (1986) Author: Katharine Kerr Discussion date: 3/23/18 Premise: Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a…
February 2, 2018
A Game of Thrones (1996) Written By: George R. R. Martin Narrated by: Roy Dotrice Genre: Fantasy Length: 33 h 48 m (Audiobook) Series: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1 Publisher: Random House Audio via Audible The premise: Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last…
February 1, 2018
The Girl in the Tower (2018) Written by: Katherine Arden Genre: Fiction Pages: 346 (Hardcover) Series: Winternight Trilogy Book #2 Publisher: Del Rey Why I Chose It: I picked the first book in the Winternight trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale, as my favorite speculative book of 2017, so of course I had to read the second book. I was…
February 1, 2018
For my 2018 Resolution Project, I decided to take a page out of Lane’s book and do my own Silver Screen Resolution (hence the Take Two part of the title). There are a lot of movies out there I haven’t seen but feel like I should have, or movies that I’ve simply wanted to see and have yet to get…