Ernest Cline’s Armada Delivers on Action; Not On Originality
Ernest Cline’s Armada is one of the most anticipated science fiction novels of this year after his popular Ready Player One charmed nerds and geeks everywhere after being re-released in 2014. I was...
View ArticleGo Set a Watchman is a Study in New Adult Character Development
Go Set a Watchman is set to be the best selling book of 2015. Not only is it a sequel (somewhat) to To Kill a Mockingbird and Harper Lee’s first published book in 55 years, the controversy surrounding...
View ArticleWhy Nerds Everywhere Should Rejoice About “You’re Never Weird On the Internet...
Being a nerd, I’ve liked Felicia Day and Geek & Sundry, her internet empire, for a while now. I’ve watched most of The Guild and The Flog, and I’ve kept up with the geeky things she regularly...
View ArticleJem Movie is Truly Outrageous in All the Wrong Ways
As I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday, I noticed a trending article about the Jem and the Holograms movie. After only two weeks in theaters, it was performing so poorly that, in an...
View ArticleThe Way I Used to Be is One of the Most Important Books You’ll Read
I picked up The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith at the ABA’s Winter Institute in Denver as one of about 100 books. I had the opportunity to meet the author at a Simon & Schuster sponsored dinner I...
View Article25 Books Releasing in 2018 You Can’t Miss
2017 is coming to a close, and if you’re anything like us, you’ve been prepping your TBR list for 2018 since the summer. There are SO. SO. MANY. amazing books ...
View ArticleBook Review: Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders
As you’ve seen in our Best Books of 2017 post and heard on the podcast, Charlie Jane Anders wrote my favorite book I read last year, All the Birds in the ...
View ArticleBook Review: Children of Blood of Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Fantasy is a genre that, frankly, lost my interest a while ago. After Tolkien came onto the scene and introduced the epic hero’s journey, many copycats popped up, and it ...
View ArticleMonthly Reads: March & April
As a symptom of owning a bookstore, I get asked often about what I’m currently reading. As a response to that, I thought I’d start a bi-monthly blog post listing ...
View ArticleTubby & Coo’s Favorite Books of 2018
This year so far, I have read 55 books, for a total of 14,043 pages, which breaks down to about 40 pages per day (and the year’s not over yet!). ...
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