Title: Queen and Commander Author: Janine Southard Summary: On a world where high school test scores determine your future career, six students rebel. A pair of star-crossed lovers plot to stay together, rather than be separated by the system’s college plans. A former off-worlder instigates: there’s a ship in orbit, he says. We could take…

                  Inspired by both Emilie Autumn’s “Fight Like a Girl,” and her commentary on the brutish sexism of Pre-Raphealite paintings. As a form of pure hypocrisy  I happen to have the painting of the “Lady of Shalott,” serving as my undignified computer wallpaper. Given the below criticism, should…

 What will I forget? (The Inverse, Poetic Version  of Emilie Autumn’s “What Will Remember?)                Having never woken up at 4pm again,,, I sleep into perpetuity               My dreams write this poem                Forgotten, detached LullabiesSmeared like blood against the walls of my dying dreams              I’m still thinking, I’m still dreaming                Am I still alive?           There’s the vanishing…

    Title: A Ripple In Time  Author: Julia Huges  Book Description: One hundred years after she sunk, the Titanic has a new love story. Wren awakes in a present day in which World War 1 never ended, and the alternative him died as a child. Somehow, his nightmares entered the consciousness of Carina, a…

       Right now, I’m working under the gun on my senior thesis, which fittingly revolves around Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. For that reason, I haven’t been able to post any real reviews for the last few weeks, and the interminable pace of updates will continue for the whole of April. This thesis is slowly…

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      Only one day remains for Lauren Zurchin’s charity calendar project, which goes by the name Beyond Words: A Year of Daydreams. Essentially, the calendar features fourteen noteworthy, famous fantasy writers, including  Brandon Mull, Christopher Paolini, Gregory Maguire, Brandon Sanderson, Tad Williams, Patrick Rothfuss, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Lauren Kate, Lauren Oliver, Maggie Stiefvater,…

Survival Kit for Asteroid DA14 Day(Well..for the asteroid that will not hit us, according to NASA) Celebrate with these movie and books: The Last Policeman     While it could have read like a conventional police procedural, Ben Winter’s awesome crime book also had an added element of danger: the impending collision of an asteroid…

 Amazon(Kindle) (Only 99 cents!) Amazon.com (Paperback Edition) Interview with Greg Wilkey(Author of the Mortimer Drake Series) 1. Let’s start with the conventional (rather overtired) question, What spawned the idea for this book?  The idea for this book came from a dream. I was teaching middle school Spanish and I was reading tons of Young Adult literature at the…

  This ghost had his stomping ground-the church on the hilltop, right outside of the confines of this small provincial town in England. The westerly winds chilled the air, causing the villagers’ to have ghostly breath of their own. Was each errant breath of these churchgoers a significant sign that they were bound to die eventually?   …

Amazon(Kindle)/Barnes and Noble(Nook) Interview with Susan Heyboer O’Keefe (Author of the Novel) Note: This interview has been previously posted, but I’m posting this here again to reveal my new review format 1. What originally piqued your interest in writing a sequel to Frankenstein? First, let me thank you for your kind invitation to be here. You’ve…

Note for all readers:  A Bibliophile’s Reverie is going through some grand, slightly unprecedented changes. I’m well aware that I’ve been hinting at this for the last few months, but these changes will slowly be appearing on this blog over the course of the new few months. Details about all these features will not be…