January 10, 2019
First, a warning: Mary Poppins lives very close to my heart and is quite emotional for me. So when they’d announced in 2017 that they were going to do something with the Mary Poppins story, I was apprehensive. Really apprehensive. I didn’t want Hollywood ruining it like they’d ruined Willy Wonka. However, when the first trailer dropped a few months…
January 9, 2019
Sparrowhawk #1 (2018) Written by: Delilah S. Dawson Genre: Fantasy Series: Sparrowhawk Publisher: Boom Studios Why I Chose It: Delilah S. Dawson is one of my favorite authors. If she’s written it, it’s an auto-buy for me. However this would have been an auto-buy for me because of the premise of basically a Victorian faerie fight club. That caught my…
January 8, 2019
Welcome back to Sound Off!, a semi-regular column where members of Speculative Chic gather together to chat about the latest BIG THING in entertainment. This time, reminisce about your first car and discuss Bumblebee, which premiered in the United States on Friday, December 14, 2018. Sound Off! is meant to be a reaction, but not necessarily a review. After all, while we…
January 8, 2019
Well, I failed my 2018 Resolution, but the beat goes on and I still need to finish these books, so here’s the second to last book in Jemisin’s collection. This book has already been reviewed by Lane Robins, and you can read her review here. This post will have more to do with my individual reaction while reading it, as…
January 7, 2019
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 Lou Anders, whose latest book, Star Wars: Pirate’s Price, comes…
January 5, 2019
Happy weekend, friends! It’s that time of year when everything still seems bright, new, and hopeful! I hope that your weekend reflects this in some way. We’ve hit the ground running here at Speculative Chic, and we don’t intend to slow down. Let’s see what our writers created for your reading enjoyment this week!
January 4, 2019
Welcome to 2019, my fellow travelers. I’m here with your February choice for book club! With an unprecedented number of votes, your choice is . . .
January 4, 2019
“Bandersnatch,” Black Mirror (2018) Released by Netflix on December 28, 2018 Rating: TV-MA Written by: Charlie Brooker Directed by: David Slade Running time: I spent 2+ hours on it, but your mileage, and patience, may vary. Why I Chose It: Even after this uneven past season, I’m still a devoted Black Mirror viewer. The premise: It’s 1984, and nineteen-year-old Stefan…
January 3, 2019
When heading into a bookstore, it can sometimes frustrate customers when they hope to find a book they want, only to be told it isn’t there. Yet they’ll turn around and see dozens of other books, some of which have multiple copies. Why are there so many of one title, yet none of what they want? This can become even…
January 2, 2019
The rules for last year’s podcast resolution said that I needed to sample at least one episode per podcast, ideally five episodes, before deciding to continue on or not. I had such good luck of late in finding podcasts that really work for me that I haven’t had to mention the ones I bounced off of. But in the end,…