Ron Howard is in talks to direct a movie version of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.
Alan Moore is most known for the graphic novel The Watchmen. Here’s a guide to reading a bit deeper into his repertoire.
Nerdscape contest. I may have to do this.
A great column with several prominent authors contributing discussing which books would benefit from rebranding as YA novels, and which YA novels should be reissued as adult books.
January 30th, 2013. Ruth Arnell | World Wide Wednesday | 4 comments |
Faces Under Water by Tanith Lee
I found the first book of Tanith Lee’s THE SECRET BOOKS OF VENUS series, Faces Under Water, in a used bookstore recently. To call Lee a prolific writer is to understate things somewhat. I had never heard of this series, set in an alternate Venice and based on the four elements. They were published by Overlook Press in the late 1990s and early twenty-first century.
Faces Under Water is short but dense,
January 30th, 2013. Marion Deeds´s rating: 2.5 | Tanith Lee | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows is a set of anthropomorphic stories that English author Kenneth Grahame wrote for his young son and published in 1908. The story begins when Mole, who lives in a hole in the English countryside, decides one fine day to come out of his underground lair to see a bit of the world. He’s amazed by all that he sees and soon he encounters and befriends a water rat who invites him to a picnic, takes him for a ride on the river,
January 30th, 2013. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Kenneth Grahame | Audio, Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
What a fascinating exploration of Edwige Fenech's contributions to the giallo genre! I love how the post highlights her unique…
Pretty challenging book. Cut by half, speed up the cadence. Trying to figure out the plot, the main point of…
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…