Review: A Wounded Name by Dot Hutchison
Hardcover, 311 pages Published September 1st 2013 by Carolrhoda Lab Source: Library “How many ways can a heart break? I suspect, because of Dane, I will discover them all.” There’s […]
Category Archives: Speculative Fiction
Patrick Ness at Kidsbooks, October 14, 2015
Your Roving Reporter was delighted to have the excuse last week to be able to quote shamelessly (and endlessly – I have four pages of scrawled notes to be deciphered […]
Review: Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
Hardcover, 304 pages Published June 2nd 2015 by Dial Books Source: Publisher Circus Mirandus is touted to be one of the best middlegrade reads of the year and I will […]
Dreaming Big in Dream a Little Dream by Kerstin Gier (translated by Anthea Bell)
Hardcover, 336 pages Expected publication: April 14th 2015 by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Source: Publisher Dream a Little Dream is the latest offering from Kerstin Gier who is a […]
Scary Stories For Children: A Genre Studies Course Rationale
The upcoming 2015 Children’s Literature Association Conference is one that has caught my attention – “The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children’s Literature,” an open-ended call for panels on […]
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
The premise of The Warrior Heir is that feuding groups of magical people, Weirlind, live among us, constantly vying for power. Wizards are the most powerful of these people, both magically […]
Speculating Worlds: How to Successfully Build Fictional Realities
Note: The title of this post is a bit misleading as it implies a degree of expertise in the subject that I, unfortunately, do not have. What the following post […]
Speculative Fiction: Androids and the Prometheus Myth
One of the most interesting and fun Speculative Fiction tropes is the playfulness, which can be terrifying at times, with which the genre tackles the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus, a […]
Review: Akata Witch (Akata Witch #1) by Nnedi Okorafor
Hardcover, 349 pages Published April 14th 2011 by Viking Children’s Source: Library Any title with the word “witch” in it is guaranteed to get my attention and when the synopsis […]
Birthdays and Age
All of you rabid Harry Potter fans out there, tell me, what is the significance of October 4th? October 4th is Minerva McGonagall’s birthday. Happy birthday, professor! One of the […]
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