Unleash the Flying Monkeys!

2015-01-01

Rating: 6 of 10 If RINGU was the reason you ditched an entire collection of old VHS movies or, at the very least, moved the TV outta your bedroom, and...

2014-12-29

Every year for the last five years I’ve challenged myself to read a certain number of books. The first couple years I came up short, but since 2011 I...

2014-12-03

Rating: 3 of 5 From the back cover: Cindy McKay is Seattle’s beloved radio personality. She has fifty thousand friends she talks to every day, but the...

2014-09-08

Rating: 4 of 5 Growing up, two people had a tremendous impact on my budding imagination: Fred Rogers and Jim Henson. Up till around age seven the only...

2014-08-25

Rating: 4 of 5 Don’t let the length of these 13 essays fool you. “We’re All Infected” is dense, academic reading. I tackled about two essays a week over...

2014-08-23

Rating: 3 of 5 I might recommend Suffer the Children to readers who devour all things vampire…if those readers don’t mind moderately flawed fiction....

2014-08-06

Rating: 4 of 5 The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Food in Harmony with Nature by Tammi Hartung I knew there had to be a way to garden...

2014-08-03

Rating: 2 of 5 Dystopia-light. Best suited for middle graders or teens under 14 with little to no previous exposure to the genre. I suspect it was written...

2014-07-29

Rating: 3.5 of 5 I requested The Girl with All the Gifts based on the blurb, which told me pretty much nothing about the actual story, but teased with...

2014-07-28

Rating: 3.5 of 5 Supernatural horror built on the Cthulhu Mythos, then remodeled and added to by Talley. Supported the idea of “good” and “evil.” Heavy...