June 16, 2018
Hello, happy people! We are HALFWAY finished with June, which means we are almost halfway through the year! How the time has flown. I can hardly believe that the week is over. Yes, friends, it is Saturday, and that means it’s time for our weekly cruise down memory lane. I hope that this week has been a great one for…
June 15, 2018
Annihilation (2014) Written by: Jeff VanderMeer Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 208 (Paperback) Series: Book One of The Southern Reach Trilogy Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Why I Chose It: Having seen the movie and my curiosity already piqued, I figured this was only the next logical step. Especially since I wanted to see just how the two compared given that the movie…
June 9, 2018
Hello awesome people, it’s the weekend! It’s June! It’s summer here in the US! It doesn’t matter that the “official” first day of summer is June 21; it was in the upper 90s here in the Kingdom of Undisclosed Location yesterday. That’s summer, folks. As much as I would like to remain in the blessed indoors, I have errands to…
June 8, 2018
Let’s be honest: despite the adage, we are all guilty of occasionally judging books by the cover. We know we shouldn’t, but sometimes, we just can’t help ourselves. This month’s roundtable topic was suggested by Nicole Taft, bookseller par excellence. She sees a lot of book covers, and wanted to talk about books that we, as readers, picked up simply…
June 7, 2018
Metropolis 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…
June 5, 2018
Bring Me Their Hearts (2018) Author: Sara Wolf Genre: YA Fantasy Pages: 400 (Hardcover) Publisher: Entangled Teen Disclaimer: I was offered a free NetGalley copy from Entangled in return for a fair review. Why I Chose It: When you’re presented with a smorgasbord of ARCs but only one of them involves fantasy, royalty, and the cutting out of hearts…I mean, what else…
May 31, 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 19, 2018
Hello on this rainy (for me) Saturday! There’s no need to ask what you’re up to this weekend. It’s Deadpool weekend, and a little Deadpool makes anything better, doesn’t he? This music video proves my statement. But anyway, what did we do over the last week? Let’s find out!
May 17, 2018
Borne (2017) Written by: Jeff VanderMeer Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 336 (Hardcover) Publisher: Macmillan Why I Chose It: I was in the middle of reading Annihilation when one of my co-workers came up with this book and bought it. Curious, I read the summary and decided to add it to my list. What was Borne? How would he change things? I wanted…
May 8, 2018
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, team up to fight the biggest bad and discuss Avengers: Infinity War, which premiered in the United States on Friday, April 27, 2018. Sound Off! is meant to be a reaction, but not necessarily a review.…