A Five Star Dilemma
I love the speech at the end of the movie Ratatouille that talks about critics. It starts with the statement, Negative criticism is fun to...
Ride the Lightning Thief
My daughter discovered Percy Jackson in the third grade and hasn’t read much else since. I have defended this choice, because like Neil Gaiman and...
A Fair Barbarian
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s books A Little Princess and The Secret Garden are two of my favorite childhood reading experiences. I did not find out until...
Looking at the grave of the invisible man
Spolia (the literary magazine associated with The Bookslut) has released a chapbook of Sjón's poems called at the grave of the invisible man, translated by...
Daughter of the Forest
I was introduced to Juliet Marillier’s Daughter of the Forest by the fabulous Felicia Day and her Vaginal Fantasy Bookclub. But I don’t know how...