Many of my readers are already aware that I help administer a monthly book chat. For those that don’t, the Steampunk Virtual Book Chat (More formally known as Temporal Textual Talks) exists to help promote steampunk and steampunk-adjacent books and their authors. It started as a response to the global pandemic; so many steampunk authors […]
Read MoreHappy New Year! It may be obvious, but I’m a fan of books and reading. I arrived at first grade able to read on day one – largely because my parents read to me regularly, and because I lived in a house with a lot of books. I was encouraged to read, and even 12 […]
Read MoreThis week, besides being my birthday week, is also National Banned Books week. It’s a week when we “celebrate” banned books, as a reminder that the rights we hold dear in the United States are easily abridged or outright removed by determined people with agendas. Looking over any of the lists of banned books, you’ll […]
Read MoreSeveral months ago, I came across PBS’s “Great American Read” quiz, encouraging visitors to see how many of these “Great American Reads” they themselves had read. I have to admit I was puzzled by this list: it contained an awful lot of the dusty old classics of yore — things our English Lit. instructors insisted […]
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