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 level. What Gods Would be Theirs? is a politically charged coming-of-age [...]

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 never returned, or badly damaged in some of my many [...]

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 finishing Feed you can’t help but wonder [...]

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 football stickers. Mankind has always had an instinctive, all consuming desire to compile [...]

“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 (which is, admittedly, how I discovered it and why I read it). It’s important to stress [...]