So I've been reading John Bierce's Young Adult series, Mage Errant. It's been an extremely pleasant surprise. (Book #1 is included in Prime Reading w/ Amazon Prime.)

( It takes the 'boarding school for young wizards' theme & goes some really fun, interesting, & serious places with it. )

I'm starting to dive back into this series before the TV show will inevitably fuck up huge parts of it. I started reading this series way back in 1990, and, flaws and all, I love it.

But one of the things I don't think they got wrong was casting a multi-ethnic group of actors. In fact, I think it's a great way of picking up and moving forward ( Read more... )

Work has been very stressful the past few weeks, and I was re-reading Pierce Brown's Dark Age when I twigged on to something I missed the first time through, and I'm giggling away inside.

Dramatis Personae:

Apollonius au Valii-Rath -- imagine for a moment that Hannibal Lector had never had to restrain himself about anything and was still so ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished Phil Bildner's middle school book: A High Five for Glenn Burke.

Bildner has recieved disinvites over this book, or has been asked not to read from it or mention it at (virtual) author readings because of its LGBTQ content.

This is the sum total of the book's LGBTQ content:

A 6th grade boy, Silas, does a book report on Glenn Burke ( Read more... )

So, I'm reading Book 5 of Red Rising, The Dark Age, and it took me a while to get into it because the first 15% of the book is very slooooow, but then it gets going and ( Read more... )

You can find this series at Riptide/Amazon/B&N, or if your library supports Hoopla, they might be in the package that your library has access to.

I love a good procedural (which means I hate 90% of the procedurals on TV) and Seven of Spades is mashing my Bosch and Homicide buttons, and even a bit of the Hannibal itch, but I get ahead of myself.

( So this series is a homicide detective and a bounty hunter/PI who get tangled up with a serial killer (who 'ships them!!!) and together they fight crime ... and have hot buttered prawn. )

You can jump to about 7:45 in the video and go from there until about 9:05

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(Incase the frame doesn't work -- here's a link to the video.)

I can't stop laughing.

(Oh, Strindberg, you were so repressed.)

Scoring Chances series by Avon Gale and ...

( Book one and two are okay, but it's books 3, 4, & 5 that have been eating my brain )

I want the story where

Angie (and her girlfriend, KC), Gabe, and Sugar all meet up somehow and save the world from the Walmart Apocalypse.

(What is the Walmart Apocalypse? I don't know, but I'm dying for somebody to figure it out and then tell the rest of us.)

Reading Iron Gold -- the first book of the sequel to the Red Rising Trilogy and loving it so far.

So, what happens after you have your revolution? What cans of worms did you open by overthrowing the previous order? Is the freedom to starve really freedom ( Read more... )