Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay, generated by far the most conversation of any book we have read so far. As opposed to previous contested books we have had in book club, Tigana had less of a spectrum of different opinions, and more of a splitting into two camps: people who loved it and people who…
Continue reading ➞ Book Club Discussion: Tigana By Guy Gavriel Kay
About a year ago I started a book club. In the club are about 12 people from various parts of my life, who live in different parts of the country, and like reading. I had become a book recommendation machine to many of them, and I thought it might be a fun idea to try…
New York Comic-Con has come and gone this past weekend, and what an experience it was. If you ever get a chance to go to a Comic-Con I highly recommend it. This was my first, and I only went because I live in NYC and a few authors I wanted…
Continue reading ➞ Stories From Comic-Con: Authors Are Fans Too
So, I have been buried under work recently and have had almost no time to make a post, or even read a book. However, this month I read a book that I felt I had to take time to write about. Many of you know who Mark Lawrence is. For those of you who don’t,…
Continue reading ➞ Mark Lawrence And The Importance Of Never Writing Off An Author
First impressions are important. Unfortunately, we often judge people in the first 3 seconds we meet them. While many of our initial impressions are wrong, it does not change the fact that our first moments with a person can color how we see all subsequent interactions. I find that the same idea can be applied…
This month my book club read Leviathan Wakes, I just finished reading The Widow’s House, and I am about to start reading Nemesis Games. All three of these books were written or co-written by the author Daniel Abraham, so I thought it might be a good time to take a moment to appreciate one of…
Continue reading ➞ Daniel Abraham And The Importance Of Creativity
Because I am secretly a 60 year old grandmother, I run a book club. We read mostly fantasy and sci-fi books, but in the spirit of variety we try to throw in books from other genres occasionally. When we were picking our line-up for this year, we decided to look into best selling books that…
Continue reading ➞ What Everyone Can Learn from Agatha Christie
