A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is speculative fiction at its best, fiction which explores the nature of society and the complexity of family while plumbing the depths of friendship and what it means to be human. … More Philosophy on a Foreign Moon [Book Review]
Ingredients: 1. Take a Greek Orthodox girl and her father, fleeing the Greco-Turkish war. 2. They resettle in Oxford, England. It’s the 1920’s. 3. She meets C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Results: Paul Kearney’s The Wolf in the Attic.
“That’s why we tell stories,” Aunt Jem said. “To remind us there’s another way. A better way. We tell stories so we can find it.” … More Every Word A Prayer [Book Review]
“I had this dream we were all on the Enterprise, from Star Trek. . .” … More Beam Me Out of Here, Mr. O’Brien [Book Review of Warp]
“I wondered what his name was, for I was certain he had one now, certain he’d arrived somewhere he belonged.” … More We Are Shelter Pets, Looking For a Home
“Citizens of Russia, how is your blockade of Mariupol different from the blockade of Leningrad during World War II?” — Volodymyr Zelensky … More Books Are Siege Weapons
Everyone in the Snow Kingdom fears the trolls and their black dragon-drawn carriages. . . … More Winter Secrets [BOOK REVIEW]
About fifteen years ago we went to a Talk Like a Pirate Day festival at a local museum (September 19). The museum hosted a Pirate Trivia Contest. Our team won. The prize, a pirate costume, was a flimsy one-size-fits-most Halloweenish coverall and an enviable plush tricorn hat. Best of all was bragging rights. … More Jean Laffite: Privateer, Pirate, Gentleman, Hero [BOOK REVIEW]
A missing girl, immortalized as Little Girl With Popsicle.
A misfit loner, suspected of the crime.
The girl’s older sister still looks for her eleven years later.
… More A Must-Read; Anything But Needless [BOOK REVIEW]
“What follows is an account, as I choose to remember it, of my twelfth year on this planet–the summer of the Saturday Night Ghost Club. . . ” … More Maturity Comes With Understanding: The Saturday Night Ghost Club [Book Review]
Cynthia June Long 