This week I’d like to feature the site Fantastic Fiction. Its colors may be a bit harsh and gaudy, but the site is so full of information you’ll soon not even notice the atrocious design. The site claims to have information on 30,000 authors and 350,000 books and those numbers keep growing. The webmaster regularly [...]
Last weekend, I was shocked to find out that right around the corner (in Burlington, MA) the Shirley Jackson Awards were being presented (as part of a larger conference, Readercon) and I hadn’t heard about it! I hopped right over and attended, and was glad I did. The presenter of the awards, Nalo Hopkinson, was [...]
Digging Up The Dead by Michael Kammen
I wanted to like this book, in fact I expected to like this book. I mean, who wouldn’t want to hear bizarre stories of people being dug up and reburied for various reasons? I love sort-of “weird history” books, and this one definitely fit that category. And the actual [...]
The New Dead - a Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden.
Like with many anthologies, this collection had some that hit it out of the park and some that were less successful. There were definitely enough good ones to make it worth reading, though I did find myself a bit “zombie’d-out” after a while (I [...]
Page Turners is a book blog by Becky in Sydney, Australia. (It seemed appropriate with the heat we’ve been having lately to feature a blog from “down under”).
I was brought to this site by a link for Book Beginnings on Friday, a meme I might actually join and start doing here. I have liked the [...]
With summer fully underway, lists of best beach reads and summer reading suggestions are cropping up all over. One of the best I’ve found is from a site that, while I have mentioned it before, I haven’t actually featured. So this is a perfect opportunity for me to highlight The Daily Beast and its book [...]
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