Author: fantastyfreak

Review of “China Dolls,” by Lisa See

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads    In ninth grade (a time that seems eons ago..), I wrote a report on Japanese Internment camps, since the topic completely fascinated me. This was at a time, where history lessons were becoming increasingly more divisive, thus featuring more critical thought and response as a result.  Most of my education has…

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Is selling ARCs of a book, before pub. date, considered theft?

 Picture Taken from a recent product page, for a “Prince Lestat” ARC, being sold nearly three months prior to the slated Publication Date. **Click the hyperlinked text, to be taken to the incriminating Ebay page, which really quite shocked me, to say the least!** As a book blogger, it is commonplace for me to receive Advance Reader…

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Review of David Mitchell’s “The Bone Clocks”

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads From the fantastically visceral film adaptation of another David Mitchell masterpiece “Cloud Atlas,” the Cloud Atlas sextet serves as the musical underpinning that really weaves together all the disparate elements of that story. There is so much needless, and even at times, inordinate effusion and tomfoolery in this review, so you…

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New Chat Format Change Policy/ The Vampire Lestat Wrap-up Discussion Post

**Click the cover image above for Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned, to be taken to Amazon, to purchase the newest edition, containing the first chapter of the much-anticipated Prince Lestat.** Discussion for Queen of the Damned  begins September 1st, 2014, so be sure to have your copy prepared to read analytically, for the next few…

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Review of “F,” by: Daniel Kehlman

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads Novel Released Today: August 26, 2014, from Patheon/ Knopf Publishing Services     Ever since the nineteen-fifties or sometime around there, philosophy has practically been bogged down in existential vexations: questions and intellectual extrapolations surrounding the meaning of human existence and consciousness in a century that has been bursting with the revolutionary…

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Lestat Book Coven Newsletter-8/21/14

**Read the entire post to find out more details on how you can win a genuine signed, first-edition hardcover edition of The Vampire Lestat!!**     NEWS ABOUT Coven of the Articulate: A Scholarly Compendium of Anne Rice’s novels. (Click the hyperlinked text, to read more information about essay submission guidelines and the ultimate deadline for all…

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Maria V. Snyder Wednesdays: Review of “Storm Glass”

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads        After two weeks without any Maria V. Snyder-centric posts on this blog, the much-anticipated retrospective reviews of her books returns in fine form and flourish with the first entry of the Glass Trilogy, with the intrepid, often ruthlessly defiant Opal. Antithetically, I would say that Opal is more daring and…

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Outlander Mondays-Special Outlander Iced Tea Recipe

If you have dared yourself to indulge in the incredibly engrossing world of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander book series, or the first two episodes of the impeccably cast Starz tv-series, then you will perfectly understand why I am so enamored with this series. Eventually, I will have a much more comprehensive discussion of the book series, but reading…

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Review of The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit by Graham Joyce

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/ Goodreads       Combining the air of whimsical charm of Tim Burton’s Big Fish and the slightly offbeat, lugubrious melodrama of Donnie Darko,you end up with my best description of the type of unconventional storytelling that is at the heart of Graham Joyce’s newest novel The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit….

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