• Book Review: Thornhedge by T. KingFisher

    Thornhedge is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty. In it, a young fairy named Toadling is tasked to protect the sleeping place of a princess. After two centuries of no one finding the castle or investigating the hedge and the brambles around it, a knight arrives, sending Toadling into a panic. (She had mostly been hoping…

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  • Update (Writing and Otherwise.)

    The past couple months I have been kind of busy with various metaphorical brush fires. I’m currently attempting to switch clinics. (I have a clinic for autism related things and a clinic for non-autism mental health things because developmental disabilities are on a different track from other mental health things in Arizona. It is exactly…

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  • Book Review: The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman is a pretty hard novel to find. I had originally sought this book out because I had read and liked The Silent Strength of Stones and from there started looking for the Matt Black books and reading her short stories. (I also eventually discovered the…

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  • Book Review: Sea Change by S.M. Wheeler

    Sea Change is essentially one of those fairy tales where the protagonist must negotiate a series of deals in order to obtain his or her objective. Our Heroine is a young woman named Lilly whose home life is best described as dysfunctional and estranged. Her only friend is a kraken named Octavius. When he turns…

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  • I Used to Call Them “Men’s Romance”

    Just a complaint about a conversational short circuit that seems to prevent people from actually listening.

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