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Hobbit news!
Word is going around the net that The Hobbit starts filming in July! Tolkien fans, please to be joining me in squee that Sir Ian McKellen will be reprising his role as Gandalf. However, that leaves plenty more important roles to be filled. I’m of course crossing fingers for Hugo Weaving to come back as…
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I need your book recommendations!
Okay, so it’s a quiet Friday afternoon and work is quiet and I’m bored, so I turn to you, O Internet, for the answer to the following vital question: I have a 15% Barnes and Noble member coupon! Since I can’t spend it on ebooks, what recently released print book should I spend it on?…
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Book Log #18: To Play the Fool, by Laurie R. King
The second of Laurie R. King’s Kate Martinelli books, To Play the Fool, is a tightly written, thoughtful work, and was a nice re-introduction for me to the series. I’d previously read the third and then the first ones; going back to read the second filled in the blanks nicely on things that I’d missed.…
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All hands, brace for fangirling!
For those of you who haven’t seen this already, here’s the latest trailer for the forthcoming Robin Hood movie. Look for none other than Alan The Doyle, showing up around the 0:54 mark or so–with a line, even! Is it May yet? Is it May yet? Is it May yet? Also, elf needs icons, BADLY.…
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Lulzy Star Wars geekery
gave me a heads up to this: one fan’s tribute to what Star Wars might have been like if it had been an Icelandic saga! This is geekery I absolutely have to salute. Check it out. 🙂
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More book roundups!
I’ve gotten onto a kick of replacing all my J.D. Robbs with ebook versions, since there are so many of those that that will clear a good chunk of my shelf space off. As a result, I’ve also been re-reading the series from the beginning, which has been pretty fun; look for forthcoming review posts.…
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Book Log #17: The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
By modern standards, The War of the Worlds isn’t much of a plot: Martians come and take over the world, everybody goes OHNOEZ!, Martians conveniently are beaten not by any efforts of the protagonists, but rather by a deus ex machina (which I will not identify, on the off chance that someone reading this review…
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Book Log #16: Skin Deep, by Mark Del Franco
After getting four books in on the Connor Grey series, it’s both a refreshing and a disconcerting change of pace to jump over into the Laura Blackstones, the new series Del Franco is spinning off. This series is set in the same universe, but featuring a new protagonist, the druidess Laura Blackstone, a covert operative…
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Book Log #15: Unperfect Souls, by Mark Del Franco
With Unperfect Souls, the latest in the Connor Grey series, we’re well and thoroughly into the action at this point. If you’re new to the Connor Greys, this is not the book to start with. Thanks to the events at the tail end of the last book (Unfallen Dead), the Dead of the fey no…
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Review an album, win my book!
Here’s another shot for y’all to win Faerie Blood if you’re up for it–but this time, the contest is being held by my beloved , who has finished a work EP for her forthcoming very first CD, to be titled Dick Tracy Must Die! Dara is recording every track on this thing singlehandedly, including vocals,…
