I thought a lot about how I wanted to critique this book, because sometimes I think I’m being too harsh. And sometimes I also think I’m being too generous, and I don’t want to hand out five star ratings to just anything because then does it diminish the worthiness of five star ratings? If everything…
Spooky Saturday: UFOs, The Cold War, & The Rise of Aliens in American Culture
That’s a lofty title, I know. Are we really going to cover all that? Perhaps not comprehensively, but we are definitely going to touch on it. This Spooky Saturday post is kind of a tie-in with a review of a YA novel I’m about to post. I just read an ARC of Carrie Arcos’s Skywatchers,…
Book Review: Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins
Well, hello again, friends. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted just a straight up, traditional book review, so what better book to jump back in with than Stolen Time? Pretty much everyone knows that I’m a huge fan of The Merciless series, which was written by Danielle Rollins under her pen name, Danielle…
Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One is a pretty popular (okay, that’s the understatement of the year—it’s hugely popular) dystopian sci-fi novel by Ernest Cline. The book is set in the year 2045, in a world in which many of the problems we are already starting to see today have come to a head—overcrowding/overpopulation, poverty, food shortages, gas…