From the monthly archives: April 2008

On the Defense: Grimspace

By On April 11, 2008 · 5 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Debate, Book Reviews

Review number: 34

Review:

OK, right. At some deeper level of consciousness I would agree with most of Thea’s points (the “Frag” thing was particularly eye-popping) but I ended up not caring about the bad and the ugly because the good was fun: Grimspace for me was, even taking into consideration all of its [...]

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On the Attack: Grimspace

By On April 10, 2008 · 7 Comments · In 4 Rated Books, Book Debate

I feel like such a Debbie Downer when it comes to these much buzzed over romance novels. But, I got nothing else if I ain’t honest, so here goes.

Review Number: 27ish?

Review:

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre is the author’s first science fiction book, published by and marketed as a sci-fi novel. Presumably, this is [...]

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Book Debate: Grimspace

By On April 10, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Book Debate, Book Reviews

Loads of glowing reviews around blogland have prompted us to pick Grimspace for our Book of the Month feature and do a joint review. But, in the process of reading it we realized that whilst Ana was having a good time, Thea wasn’t. Surprised that once again we were not able to reach a consensus [...]

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From the Page to the Screen: The Ruins

By On April 10, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Book to Movie

Title: The Ruins

Novel by Scott Smith

Movie directed by Carter Smith; screenplay by Scott Smith; starring Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, and Laura Ramsey

Last Friday, the film adaptation of Scott Smith’s second novel, The Ruins, hit theaters. I had read this book when [...]

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From Thea’s Dungeon

By On April 10, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Book Reviews, Dungeons

This Episode’s Unearthings: Let’s go mythical. John C. Wright’s Chronicles of Chaos trilogy and an all time fave movie, Jason and the Argonauts.

John C. Wright’s Chronicles of Chaos:
Orphans of Chaos, Fugitives of Chaos, Titans of Chaos

I feel almost completely [...]

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Book Review: Demon Night

By On April 9, 2008 · 15 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Demon Night

Author: Meljean Brook

Review number: 33

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Stand alone/series: Third full-length novel in The Guardians series.

Summary:
Charlie Newcomb worked hard to get her life back together. But all that is shaken when she’s set upon by three vampires desperate to transform her beauty into something [...]

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Book Review: Marvel Zombies

By On April 8, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Marvel Zombies

Author: Robert Kirkman, Sean Phillips

Genre: Graphic Novel, Horror

Stand alone or series: First Graphic novel in what is now a collection of 3 Marvel Zombie specials

Summary: (From amazon.com)
Torn from the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four! On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe’s, an alien virus [...]

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Book Review: The Lion’s Daughter

By On April 7, 2008 · 2 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Lion’s Daughter

Author: Loretta Chase

Review number: 32

Genre: Historical Romance

Stand alone / series: It can be read as a stand alone but some characters reappear briefly in Captives of the Night which has the villain in Lion’s Daughter as the Hero. He also appears in Lord of [...]

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Western Week: The Soundtrack

By On April 6, 2008 · 9 Comments · In Western Week

Howdy! It is time to wrap up Western Week, to say adios to our favourite westerns, mount on our horses and ride into sunset – for the time being. Oh ok, until tomorrow.
We hope you had a great time this week – we sure did preparing it. So much so, we have decided to [...]

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Western Week: Nonsensical Weekend Poll

By On April 5, 2008 · 9 Comments · In Weekend Poll, Western Week

In honor of Western Week, this week’s ponderings:

What is your favorite Western movie?

A Fistful of Dollars – Remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Sergio Leone’s film stars none other than Clint Eastwood.

For A Few Dollars More – Second of Leone’s Dollars trilogy.

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