Flashback Friday: The Hobbit
aka Greedy Little Midgets & Why My 12 Year-Old-Self Sucked I wish I could say that I enjoyed every science fiction & fantasy novel I ever picked up as a child, but I can’t. I’d be lying if I did. Read More…
Flashback Friday: Watership Down
Watership Down by Richard Adams was the first adult novel I read as a child where the main character wasn’t a human. When much younger, I’d enjoyed children’s chapter books such as Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe and Charlotte’s Read More…
Flashback Friday: The War of the Worlds
While you enjoy this Flashback Friday, I’ll be talking craft at Emerald City Comicon. I’m excited that wonderful SF/F authors such as Cornelia Funke, Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Stephenson, Hugh Howey, Kevin J. Anderson, John Scalzi, and Dave Farland/Wolverton will be Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Last Unicorn
Ah, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. I saw the movie first—in the theater in 1982 at age five. Another one of those wonderful films like The Dark Crystal that introduced me to the land of fantasy. (If you’ve Read More…
Flashback Friday: Mythadventures
Another Fine Myth, the first book of many in the Mythadventures by Robert Lynn Aspirin, and later, Jody Lynn Nye was my first journey into punny, comical fantasy. Most of what I read in middle school was of a more Read More…
Flashback Friday: Magician Apprentice
When I first read Magician: Apprentice, the first novel in Raymond E. Feist’s Riftwar Saga, it actually wasn’t called Magician: Apprentice. It, and it’s sequel, Magician: Master (Riftwar Saga, Book 2), were published together in one massive volume simply entitled, Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Dark Crystal
(This was supposed to post on Friday, but it looks like a website hiccup prevented that. Sorry for the delay.) Normally, I use Flashback Friday to roll back and review a SF/F work I read when younger, but today I’m Read More…
Flashback Friday: Depression & a Dragon
Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn was probably the longest fantasy novel I read in middle school. Sitting at 576 pages, it’s truly an epic fantasy novel. Length of novels didn’t intimidate me. As a middle schooler, I devoured books like Read More…
Flashback Friday: A Trilogy of Magic and Love
If it weren’t a Flashback Friday post, I could always write some snarky post about George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and Valentines’ Day, complete with lots of death and war, but seeing as I’m supposed to review Read More…
Flashback Friday…Something Wicked This Way Comes
5th Grade. Top of the elementary school ladder and way smarter than I had any right to be, a teacher recommended that I read Something Wicked This Way Comes by science-fiction master, Ray Bradbury. To be honest, my little Nancy-Drew-and-Hardy-Boy-loving-self Read More…
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