Twenty Percent True

This week's novel is The Raven King , the last book in The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater.  Since I haven't talked about the fir...

This week's novel is Station Eleven , post-apocalyptic literary fiction by Emily St. John Mandel. Civilization collapses when 99.99...

A friend of mine has stopped writing, which bums me out because she wrote beautiful stories, and she has several that are unfinished and I w...

This week's novel is Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.  It was a quick, creepy read with mystery and atmosphere. This is the story ...

I've done a bunch of research about knots over the past few weeks for use in the the firebird story.  It's way too much research co...

This week's novel is The River King by Alice Hoffman. Chalk House, one of the boys' dorms at the Haddan School, a pretentious boa...

When I was about seven-years-old, I read Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt.  This is a story about a group of siblings whose mother abandons them...