May 5, 2018
It’s the weekend! The weekend is awesome! Let’s hear it for the weekend! What are your plans? There’s a strawberry festival here in the Kingdom of Undisclosed Location, but the weather’s looking a little questionable, so we’re skipping it. Turns out that I’ve had strawberry shortcake before, and while it’s a delightful treat, it’s not worth potentially being caught in…
May 4, 2018
Hello friends and welcome to another announcement about book club. After popular vote, your choice for June’s book club is . . . Dark Lord of Derkholm (1998) Author: Diana Wynne Jones Discussion Date: 6/22/18 The Premise: Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding…
May 4, 2018
This year I resolved to read George R. R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire and watch HBO’s Game of Thrones, both series. For all of you who have seen the entire series and/or read all the books, here is your chance to experience it for the first time all over again! Why I Chose it: I had tried watching…
May 3, 2018
I really love talking about the zombie apocalypse. I find the idea sparks a lot of passionate conversation, whether you’re normally a fan of speculative fiction or not. There’s something about the trope that really brings out the inventive side of people. That’s very true of Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Zombie Abbey, which I read a few weeks ago. And today…
May 3, 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…
May 2, 2018
After last year’s successful resolution, I decided to dip my toes into a new-to-me spec-fic area — podcasts. The rules as I laid them out originally* for 2018: I will listen to twelve spec-fic oriented podcasts, one per month. For each podcast, I will listen to a minimum of five episodes per podcast before I either give up or add…
May 1, 2018
As Speculative Chic’s Marvel Cinematic Universe fangirl-in-chic, I saw Avengers: Infinity War on Thursday evening, the day of the film’s debut to general audiences in the United States. This post does not include even a bland description of my reaction, because even that much verges on spoiler territory for such a film. Instead, as Speculative Chic’s film editor, I have…
May 1, 2018
On September 11, 2016, I went to my local movie theater for an experience that I never thought would happen in my lifetime. One of my favorite films, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, was getting an extremely limited theater presentation, courtesy of Fathom Events. I was thrilled. I’d watched the movie over a dozen times since its 1986 release, but I wasn’t old…