William Shakespeare – Hamlet
hamlet
August 30th, 2011 by

To read, or not to read, that's not really a question: But whether it be right to let you, the reader suffer The dull and lousy criticism of one of the Bard most loved/hated plays Or to move on and review another island in the sea of critical... more

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Mira Grant – Deadline
August 19th, 2011 by

Warning: If you have NOT read Feed, do not read this review! Deadline is the zombie book of 2011, and the political horror-thriller of the year. This is the second book in Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy, and the book is just as strong as, if not... more

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Jamie Craig – A Line in the Ice
August 18th, 2011 by

Charlie, Eduard, Theo, Lisa, and Julius are members of the military sent to Antarctica for a very particular mission. During World War II, mysterious monsters came from the rift and began stalking the streets of the war-torn world. The monsters... more

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Rhapsody for Lessons Learned or Remembered – G. Banks-Martin
July 26th, 2011 by

I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a poetry snob. That isn’t to say that I will only read the likes of Dickinson, Shakespeare and Rossetti of course. Indeed, I even dared to venture that Seamus Heaney’s ‘North’ wasn’t a patch on his earlier... more

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Annalinde Matichei – The Flight of the Silver Vixen
July 22nd, 2011 by

I have to admit that when I received The Flight of the Silver Vixen in the post, I had mixed thoughts about reading it. On the one hand, it was actually science fiction, a genre that I love but have really been neglecting recently. On the other, the... more

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Colin Shanafelt – What Gods Would Be Theirs?
July 19th, 2011 by

Colin Shanafelt knows the part of Austin that he set What Gods Would Be Theirs? in. Shanafelt taught high school English (much like two of the main characters in his novel) at Lake Travis High School before moving on to working at the collegiate... more

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Anne Mccaffrey – Dragonflight
July 15th, 2011 by

I literally ate these books up as a young lady growing up in New York City. The Dragonriders of Pern novels took my imagination on soaring flights of fantasy, like a dragonrider on her dragon. Most of my collection was either lost, loaned out and... more

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Mira Grant – Feed
July 8th, 2011 by

Even if you aren't a fan of zombies, this is one zombie book that you shouldn't run from. It won't eat your brains or turn you into a zombie. I promise. This is a zombie book that redefines the world of zombies, so very well researched that after... more

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Dave Gorman – Are you Dave Gorman?
June 17th, 2011 by

Ask Noah, who filled his ark with every kind of animal. Ask the philatelists who’ve scoured the world for that elusive Penny Black. Ask all the kids who have shuffled around cold, windy playgrounds trying to trade their mountainous piles of tatty... more

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Vladimir Bartol – Alamut
June 3rd, 2011 by

“Nothing is true. Everything is permitted”. This is the central ideological tenet of Hasan, the Old Man of the Mountain who dictates the action and narrative of Alamut; the book that became the inspiration for the videogame Assassin’s Creed... more

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