So, I've fallen into Prince Eddy & the Homosexual Underworld, and it's a juicy, racy read about homosexuals in high society in the late Victorian age. Fantastic research material ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished reading a fucking amazing YA novel -- one that was so good, I had to remind myself that, oh yeah, this is YA.

And I Darken is a glorious bit of alt-history what if ( Read more... )

So, it's been about 3 years since The Barrow and a brief snippit in came out in Blackguards and I'm resigned to the fact that the series is probably dead in the water. (Blackguards is an anthology totally worth every penny, BTW. Not a flat story in it ( Read more... )

Finished reading The Churn today, a novella set in the Expanse'verse that gives the backstory for Amos Burton ( Read more... )

So, I just finished reading the 2nd book of The Expanse series, Caliban's War ( Read more... )

So, like, y'all know that novel that's so bad, but has something in it that's so good that you just can't stop ...? Yeah, I found mine and it's called Iron Dragon's Thief

I started reading the freebee sample that Kindle, that great enabler, let me download.

So, I read this book in spite of the purple prose, m-preg, and dragon dick (which, I was ( Read more... )

I swear this is the book that I've been waiting for more than Captive Prince.

I adulted and did not call into to work today, I'm sneaking a page here and there, so I'm now 16% in.

I would kill to get one of those Shit Escalates buttons from the signing tour.

And finally, Sevro is so head over heels for Darrow that it's adorkable.

If like me, as part of your Banned Books Week preparations, you are are looking for a list of things banned/challenged in 2015 (as opposed to 2014), here's one such listThis is by no means an exhaustive list of all the challenges/bans that have occurred to date in the US; it is simply the ones that have binged on the CBLDF's radar. I will be ( Read more... )

We give Cece Bell's El Deafo the rating of Read This Or Die.

And I take a close look at Pierce Brown's dystopian SF story Red Rising.

High school educators often get in trouble for teaching 'promiscuous' literature, but conversations about these texts come with lifelong lessons about relationships and attraction.English class is where teenagers get to talk about the human condition. Students may have emotional reactions to characters experiencing heartbreak, trauma, or a loss of ( Read more... )