Reposting, as is my tradition:

I am the self-proclaimed Scrooge of Valentine's Day, and in that spirit I imagine the following someday happening:

Anthonius Scrooge is hard at work in his office when his nephew enters with a large cardboard heart filled with chocolates.

Nephew: Happy Valentine's Day, Uncle!
Scrooge: Bah! Humbug!
Nephew: Valentine ( Read more... )

Got home from Austin on Thursday. Slept barely an hour before having to be up at 3:00am to be ready for my shuttle to the airport for my 6:30-ish-am flight home. Managed to stay awake on the whole flight (reading the wonderful RAISING RYLAND by Hillary Whittington) and even for the rest of the day (which involved lunch, a bookstore run, a haircut, ( Read more... )

Well, that was a very fast "almost month of no traveling for work." Most of April was spent in the office doing content development and beginning my studies on yet another new (to me) subject to teach. I did have some weekend fun travel, all within driving distance of home. I journeyed over to Katonah to spend an afternoon with my pal Barry ( Read more... )

2016 Book 26: Lightspeed Magazine #70 (March 2016) edited by John Joseph Adams; asin B01CE3BFTU; 287 pages; Lighspeed; Kindle; $3.99

The Premise: (from Goodreads):  LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF ( Read more... )

2016 Book 28: The Art of the Heart by Dan Skinner; isbn B00LBGT882; 61 pages; Cerberus; Kindle; $2.99

The Premise: (from Goodreads): The heartland of America in 1965 feels like the end of the road for seventeen-year-old Zac Weston. After all, there’s nowhere to go when you’re shy, gay, and a virgin. A natural artist, inspiration strikes in the form ( Read more... )

2016 Book 25: Dangerous Spirits (Sprits Book 2) by Jordan L. Hawk; isbn 9781516972067; 181 pages; JLH Books; paperback; $11.99

The Premise: (from Goodreads):   After the events of Reyhome Castle, Henry Strauss expected the Psychical Society to embrace his application of science to the study of hauntings. Instead, the society humiliates and ( Read more... )

2016 Book 24: Chaos Choreography (InCryptid Book 5) by Seanan McGuire; isbn 9780756408138; 356 pages; Daw Fantasy; paperback; $7.99

The Premise: (from Goodreads):   Fifth book in Seanan McGuire’s funny and fast-paced urban fantasy InCryptid series featuring ballroom dancer and monster expert Verity Price. Verity Price is back on the West Coast and ( Read more... )

Playing catch-up on book and story reviews as quickly as I can. This entry contains reviews of three interconnected short stories. (Goodreads counts separately e-published short stories as "books," and so I include them in my counts here and in my database as well.)

All three of these short story / novellas are part of seanan_mcguire's Incryptid universe, which ( Read more... )

And so, another month has passed without an entry here ( Read more... )

2016 Book 20: Resume Speed by Lawrence Block; aisn B01BVQS3A0; 60 pages; LB Productions; ebook; $2.99

The Premise: (from Goodreads): From the legendary author of A Walk Among the Tombstones comes this gripping tale of sudden endings and new beginnings. When a man called Bill spots a sign in a restaurant window, he grabs his carry-on and gets off ( Read more... )