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November 26, 2013

A College of Magics, by Caroline Stevermer

The title of Caroline Stevermer's A College of Magics makes it sound like yet another...

November 23, 2013

Flannery O’Connor Not Your Cup Of Tea?

So you've heard people talk about Flannery O'Connor and how deeply Catholic she is, and...

November 19, 2013

Power of Three, by Diana Wynne Jones

A boy, son of the chief of a clan living in a mound on an...

November 16, 2013

What Not To Read on a Fourteen Hour Flight

I wrote this review of Stephen King's Everything's Eventual in March of 2013. Reading this...

November 14, 2013

The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, by Josef Pieper

In 1948, Josef Pieper published a selection of short texts from the writings of St....

November 12, 2013

Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone

In Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone paints a picture of a fascinating world where gods...

November 11, 2013

Mormons and Full Frontal Snogging — UPDATED

Now, with the relevant link. Leah Libresco discusses an article that asks, why is it...

November 07, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Bad Language

“Dang Brodell,” Emmett said. Actually that isn’t what he said. But about a year ago...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Dinner at Deviant’s Palace

Today only, Amazon has made Tim Powers' early novel

October 29, 2013

Kindle Matchbook

I've seen this all over the web today. Amazon has just opened a new program...

October 28, 2013

The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin

Rachel Griffin, youngest child of the Duke of Devon, has read (and memorized) almost every...

October 26, 2013

City of the Beasts

A rare negative book review from January, 2003, of Isabel Allende's City of the Beasts....

October 25, 2013

Ghost Story

Ghost Story is the 13th novel in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, immediately following after Changes....

October 17, 2013

Dresden Files: Changes

Harry Dresden has a problem…and if I told you what it was, you'd have to...

October 17, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Napoleon

But was he outraged! You might have thought he was Napoleon and she was asking...

October 15, 2013

Galactic Patrol

E.E. "Doc" Smith is the father of the Space Opera, and Galactic Patrol is the...

October 15, 2013

The Dresden Files

Harry Dresden's a man of the dirty streets of Chicago, a tarnished knight who can't...

October 14, 2013

Kim

Brandon has a nice piece on Rudyard Kipling's Kim, which he read recently. For those...

October 14, 2013

It’s (Mostly) All Good

So, you may ask: this blog is a Catholic blog, on the Catholic Channel at...

October 11, 2013

Trollope’s Theory of Fiction

Your average genre novel is like a high speed car chase ending in a massive...

October 10, 2013

Christianity in Three Books

Rod Dreher has asked his readers to pick three books about Christianity to recommend to...

October 08, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Time and Conscience

The whole of Lucy’s behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore,...

October 08, 2013

Marie: The Youth of Allan Quatermain

I've been aware of story-teller H. Rider Haggard since I was a kid, when my...

October 07, 2013

You Got Erotica in my Peanut Butter

Author Sarah Hoyt has observed a disturbing trend: erotica is invading every other genre, for...

October 04, 2013

Silverlock

I see that John Myers Myers' novel Silverlock is on sale at Amazon's Kindle Store...

October 04, 2013

The Warden

The Warden is the first of Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire novels, which I started reading many...

October 03, 2013

Wisdom and Knowledge

Mr. Magundi says, “The difference is simple,” Mr. Magundi replied. “Knowledge is progressive, and wisdom...

October 02, 2013

Declare

Brandon Watson has some words about Declare, by Tim Powers, a kind of supernatural spy...

October 02, 2013

Tin Tin, no Rin

Joseph Susanka says that six of his seven sons love the Adventures of Tin Tin...