Before Harry Potter, there was Prospero from Shakespeare’s infamous magic play:The Tempest    Introduction to “Magic Month”    “Magic” is a word that conjures many images in our minds of a fancifully dressed wizard,brandishing a wand, who is set on casting some kind of enchantment upon us. Within the dictionary, the term “magic” interestingly relates…

Is it possible to cram this huge experience into a nutshell? Highlights of Book Expo America     Whether you want to admit it or not, words are inherently limited compared to the full emotional capacity of your thoughts. Then again, the best writers have the ability to deceive you into thinking otherwise. For example,…

BEA is “fun-tastic” Yes, I’m using the Buffy the Vampire Slayer vernacular to express how much I love the tiring affair that is called BEA. Its still a bundle of fun, and I can’t wait to write more updates once every muscle tendon in my body does not hurt. Right about now, I’m snoozing and…

Preemptive BEA Reflections  Tomorrow, I depart for BEA, and hopefully I’ll continue seeking out new methods of improving this blog. By talking with other bloggers sometimes, I learn that a lot of the stressful elements of blogging are pretty universal feelings. Having books that are so mediocre that one can’t possibly express their feelings about it…

Blog Hiatus For this Week Only    Right now, I am taking a much needed respite from blogging. Unfortunately,I will not be posting a review of Jonathan Maberry’s “Rot and Ruin” anytime this week. It might appear sometime in July, unrelated to anything revolving around this month’s blog theme. Since its the end of May, Zombie…

Click the now deceased Tootsie Pop Owl to get to the retro version of Book Blogging 101 Book Blogging “101” With  Fantastyfreak’s stand-in: Muzzy (obvious copyright infringement..)       In the past, I’ve commissioned the Tootsie Pop Owl until he got one too many licks in his perpetual game of trying to get to the…

News for Upcoming Blog Features    I apologize for the lack of a “BEA” related post that was supposed to appear yesterday, and the start today’s Shakespeare feature is being moved to next week because I’m still trying to organize my planned features for next week. First off, I am going to start limiting my…

YIKES.. Bella Swan’s twin sister has her own movie…….. More Spoilers follow, if you don’t mind them.. Read On. If you are fearful of snarkiness, avoid this review at all costs…     Sigh… so the snarkiness resumes with a certain film that has been perverting my mind and driving me to insanity. Yes, the movie…

Review of Carrie Ryan’s “The Dark and Hollow Places”Kindle Copy/Nook Copy*****SPOILER WARNING: READ REVIEW ONLY IF YOU’VE READ BOOKS 1& 2 OF THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH TRILOGY************ Disclaimer: I strongly urge people to still consider reading anything that  I might review negatively because you might hold a different opinion! Its part of the…

         Richelle Mead is one of those writers whose books I have always greatly enjoyed. Her Succubus series had some of the best dialogue out of nearly all the hundreds of other urban fantasy books that I have read. Recently, Sea Lion publishers has started publishing her “Dark Swan” series as comic…