Fudoki by Kij Johnson
Princess Harueme is dying. She can feel it, a great weight inside her, so she is preparing for death. Emptying out...
23 September 2014
Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar
Read online at Strange Horizons Our unnamed narrator is a teenage girl, working in a restaurant after her mother left, trying...
27 June 2014
Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
I’m terrible at reading magazines I have discovered. I have a subscription to Apex and I don’t think I’ve read more...
11 February 2014
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Part of this year’s RIP reading The first recorded mention of lycans was in the 7th century. The result of a...
1 October 2013
Wolf at the door by J. Damask
The Jan Xu Adventures : book 1 Jan Xu’s sister is coming home. It should be a reason to celebrate. They...
25 August 2013
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
Also published as Sea-Hearts Misskaella isn’t as pretty and slim as her sisters, but as she grows she discovers that she...
20 February 2012
Stray by Rachel Vincent
Okay, first off the cover to this is awful. Really, it is. And second of all, I did have huge problems...
20 December 2011
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton
ISBN: 1841494747 #14 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter verse Read for the RIP Challenge See also: Voracious Reader ; It’s...
11 September 2007
Blood and Chocolate [based on the book] by Annette Curtis Klause dir. by Katja von Garnier
From the people who brought us Underworld so I hope you are not expecting the best film in the world here?...
12 February 2007
Broken by Kelley Armstrong
As the sixth book book in a series it helps if you’ve read the previous novels by Armstrong, but it isn’t essential. However, I’ve read them all, and enjoyed them. They aren’t “serious fiction” but they are well-written with humour and good characterisation. Perfect easy reading without being trash.
11 June 2006
Underworld: Evolution dir. by Len Wiseman
I’ll admit to being a fan of the first Underworld film. Not that it was a great film or anything, but...
24 January 2006
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit dir. by Nick Park, Steve Box
The first feature length outing for Wallace and Gromit sees them in the vegetable-protection industry. As AntiPesto they specialise in keeping...
5 November 2005
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