Starting with the Free Range short stories for May.  We've got Christopher Rowe's "Jack of Coins" about rebellion and magic and guys in funny looking suits.  Cecil Castellucci's "We Have Always Lived on Mars" is an abandoned Martian colony story with zee twist.  Garth Nix's "Fire Above, Fire Below" gives us OMG Dragons are real and misunderstood ( Read more... )

I should really get these done sooner, I've been seriously slacking on them. And April was a pretty light month with the books read. Started with an urban fantasy series involving tooth fairies by Jennifer Safrey called Tooth & Nail. Don't remember a lot about this, beyond that the main character was an amateur female boxer, the fae were kinda ( Read more... )

A somewhat skimpy list of books read for last month. Including a large number of anthologies. Starting with Chuck Wendig's Irregular Creatures, a collection of loosely fantastic beast themed short stories. Of which I probably liked the one about the flying cat best. Then I finally got around to finishing up Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars. ( Read more... )

And after much delays from sickness and my normal levels of procrastination I get to year-end book recap. Lots of the once-and-current roommate's books for last month. Though the first one I finished for the month on the 1st was the second book of Suzanne Collins "Hunger Games" books, Catching Fire. Which is a book where the President and the ( Read more... )

Off George R.R. Martin's lj (grrm):

"For the Wild Cards fans among you -- we're just announced a new deal with Green Ronin Games for a new WILD CARDS rpg. John Miller will be writing the campaign setting. Details on the Green Ronin website, my own website news page, and soon on John's live journal, I'm sure.Green Ronin does some good work, so this is ( Read more... )