If you read Zac and my review of Pacific Rim recently then you know that Guillermo del Toro and I don’t always have the most consistent relationship, yet there’s something about him that always has me coming back for more. Must be the mutual creature love. So it should be no surprise that when he […]
Read more "Book Review: The Strain by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan"Even though this is a little bit out of my comfort zone when it comes to genre (though not completely; there is mention of a ghost, after all), Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale is easily one of the best books I’ve read in a long time.
Read more "Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield"After playing The Last of Us it is asking a lot of a zombie book to compete with the narrative and experience provided by this video game. Yet I wanted to stay with the genre, which is why I chose Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End. That, and it was already on my kindle. […]
Read more "Book Review: Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End by Manel Loureiro"If you read our looking ahead post, then you’ll know that Aisha Tyler’s new book is the only one that made my list for the next three months in that section. I wouldn’t say that there are any diarrhea in a rental stories among Tyler’s self-inflicted wounds, but what she does have to share during […]
Read more "Book Review: Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation by Aisha Tyler"I think this book was supposed to be provocative, and I think the author tried her very best to be insightful… but it just wasn’t either of those things.
Read more "Book Review: Americana by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"To continue Tris’s story started in Divergent, it’s time to scale back from the challenges of becoming Dauntless and explore what it means to be an individual in a society that survives because of conformity.
Read more "Book Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth"Looks like it’s time again for the writers over at HST to look ahead to what we expect/hope to be the best of the best books, movies, music, TV shows and video games of the coming months.
Read more "Looking Ahead To 2013: Quarter 3 (July – September)"Everyone put your worn copies of The Hunger Games back on your shelves for a rest; we have a new trilogy to become obsessed with.
Read more "Book Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth"When I was growing up I had the nice stories of films like She’s All That to fill my head with the lies about the glory of teen makeovers for love; this week reading The Spectacular Now destroyed everything.
Read more "Book Review: The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp"As we’ve feared, from the moment E.T. struck fear in the hearts of every child on the planet, the aliens will not come in peace. And when they do, they will come in waves.
Read more "Book Club In Session: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey"
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