“This thing’s armor is too strong for our weapons!”
“I think we know what we need to do.”
“FORM VOLTRON!!”
Last summer, June 2016, Netflix released a reboot of a much-beloved animated show from my childhood: Voltron: Legendary Defender. This reimagined reboot keeps the classic high points—there are five paladins who pilot lion mechas, and their teamwork and bond helps them form the titular Defender of the Universe, Voltron. Season one of the Netflix original series was ...
This past weekend, I managed to catch the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women while in town for the American Library Association’s Midwinter conference. If, like me, you marched (or couldn’t make one, yet wholeheartedly supported the notion of a march), you may wonder: What is next? I think a lot of people, women in particular, have this top of mind.
There was a theme, it turns out, to my Atlanta visit. Not only did I manage to catch ...
When I was travelling for the holidays, I stopped by a bookstore to browse for a while. I didn’t have anything in particular that I was looking for, but when I came across a copy of Ursula K. Le Guin’s novella The Word for World is Forest, I immediately picked it up. In part, it’s because it’s a novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, and in part because the story was captivating to me: a piercing, environmentally-minded story that felt ...
Hi romance friends!
It’s the last week of January (quite a month in every arena, at least in the Dumas home), so I thought I’d check in with my reviewer friends!
Last November you may recall I had weekly “Best of 2016” posts with PJ Ausdenmore, Scandie from Scandalicious, librarian Lynn Wall, and SOS Aloha.
I touched base with them last week to see if they had any recommendations for recent books they’ve read and here’s what they have to ...
After almost three years of intermittent writer’s block, an incredibly hectic schedule, and nonstop rewriting and polishing, my first book, Jean-Baptiste Cléry—with its inspiring cover—was just a few steps away from being subjected to crowds of fans grabbing the first copies off the bookshelves. Glowing reviews from the press could only follow.
Well, so I thought. My book did make it to the bookshelves, but there were no crowds—other than family members—and there were no reviews. How could I ...
After a physically and intellectually and emotionally exhausting Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta—and a horrorshow day of travel on Tuesday—I am back home in Maine. Congratulations to all of the Youth Media Award winners and honorees, and a very special personal congratulations to the authors and books on the 2017 Amelia Bloomer list.
Due to being in Bloomer deliberations for one million hours during the conference, I was hardly on the exhibit floor at all… but I made the most of ...
We've covered lots of ground in the previous installments to this roundup of science fiction, fantasy, and horror books to look forward to in 2017. Let's see what the rest of the year has in store for hungry readers!
AUGUST
August Science Fiction has something for everyone. Ball Lightning by Chinese author Cixin Liu (and translated by Joel Martinsen) offers readers an intelligent military SF adventure. A scientist obsessed with discovering the secrets behind the natural phenomenon ...
BOOK REPORT for City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
Cover Story: Obscured Big Face
BFF Charm: Let Me Love You
Swoonworthy Scale: 2 - Eleventy Billion
Talky Talk: Switcheroo
Bonus Factor: Untold Stories
Relationship Status: Actually, Could You Introduce Me to Your (Nonfiction) Friend?
Cover Story: Obscured Big Face
As stunning – and familiar – as this is, I like it a lot more as an image than as a book cover, which I prefer to be more ...