What I’m Reading Lately, Vol. 1:2

Swallowing A Donkey's Eye

Read­ing Steven Hall’s frankly amaz­ing The Raw Shark Texts (once again, I am last to the party), I’m hav­ing my expec­ta­tions banged about in the most pleas­ant way, and puts me in mind of other recent mind­screws I’ve expe­ri­enced. You know the books I mean: the lit­er­ary brain squeezes, the … Con­tinue read­ing

HUSK Reading Questions

Zombie Reading

Derek Newman-Stile of the ter­rific web­site Spec­u­lat­ing Canada often goes above and beyond the call of duty. What do I mean by that? Well, how about cre­at­ing dis­cus­sion ques­tions for Husk? I haven’t even done that, and I wrote the freak­ing thing! [The fol­low­ing was orig­i­nally posted on Spec­u­lat­ing Canada on … Con­tinue read­ing

Speculating Canada is speculative with me

Zombie at the keyboad

I recently had a chance to talk (email-wise) with Derek Newman-Stile of the amaz­ing Cana­dian genre blog Spec­u­lat­ing Canada, a web­site chock full of Cana­dian science-fiction, fan­tasy, hor­ror, and other what-have-yous. Derek is a tire­less reviewer and a peer­less inter­viewer, as I found out, and while my fin­gers were nigh-exhausted … Con­tinue read­ing

What I’m Watching, Vol. 1:1

Krull

What can I say? I haven’t been updat­ing this blog nearly as often as I should. Between redesign­ing it (still in process as of this date), my jobs, my writ­ing; some­times it’s all I can do to squeeze in five hours to watch TV. I’m only human! Yet in that time … Con­tinue read­ing

What I’m reading lately, Vol. 1:1

Citrus Country

When I recently ended the late, lamented (by me, any­way) Shelf Mon­key blog, I also shut down my habit of pub­licly review­ing what­ever works struck my fancy. This has actu­ally allowed me to increase my read­ing; amaz­ing how much you get through when you don’t take notes. But I’ve read some … Con­tinue read­ing