Incarceron and Sapphique

Finn lives in Incarceron, a vast, sentient prison built to contain all of the undesirables of the world. Despite the fact that the prison has been sealed for many years, Finn is convinced he is in fact from the outside. Only one man has ever escaped from Incarceron, and that was so long ago that [...]

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Utterly Charming

Ten years ago, attorney Nora Barr was struggling to keep her small law practice afloat. Just when it looked like everything was about to come tumbling down around her ears, Nora’s luck suddenly took a turn for the better after meeting Alex Blackstone and his friend Sancho Panza in the parking garage of her office [...]

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Rock and Roll WIll Save Your Life

Steve Almond explains the dark and murky world of drooling fanatics, music superfans who are passionate beyond reason about their own particular favorites. Even if (especially if!) no one else has ever heard of the band in question, DFs can and will go on at great length about what makes this group special and unique [...]

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Snow Day!

Or rather, a snowed-in weekend. Winter decided to give the midwest one last snowstorm, hooray. At least this wasn’t my weekend to work, and today the library is closed for the holiday anyway, so it really wasn’t too difficult to deal with–I sat on the sofa with Lush Puppy, drank cocoa, and read books: Zombies [...]

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Zora and Me

Carrie lives in Eatonville, Florida, along with her two best friends are Zora and Teddy. Not only does Zora possess a wild and uncontrolled imagination, she also tells fabulous (and true!) stories better than anyone else in town. So when Zora says that shy and reclusive Mr Pendir is really half gator, half man, Carrie [...]

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Bink and Gollie

Bink and Gollie are the best of friends despite–or perhaps because of–their very different approaches to life, the universe, and pretty much everything. They remind me a lot of Piggie and Gerald, not to mention Frog and Toad. “Don’t You Need a New Pair of Socks?” “It’s a sock bonanza!” said Bink. “Indeed it is,” [...]

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The Lost City of Z

In 1925, Percy Fawcett, his son Jack, and Jack’s friend Raleigh Rimell disappeared in the Amazon jungle while searching for an ancient lost city. Fawcett was a member of the Royal Geographical Society, and a contemporary of explorer-adventurers T.E. Lawrence and Ernest Shackleton, as well as authors H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Fawcett [...]

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The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai

Shanghai businessman Li Jing is having dinner with his father at a hotel restaurant when the unthinkable happens–there is a massive gas explosion in the kitchen, and the building collapses. When he wakes up in the hospital, where he was taken after a massive shard of glass pierced his skull, Li Jing is diagnosed with [...]

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The Iron Duke

Ten years ago the Iron Duke, Rhys Trahaearn, shattered the Horde’s control over England. In the intervening years, life has slowly begun to return to normal. Until Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth is called away from a ball celebrating the anniversary of the Duke’s victory to investigate the dead man dropped (literally) on his front steps. [...]

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Monsters of Men

This is the third and final book in the Chaos Walking series. You can read my thoughts about The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer here. *SPOILER WARNING* Todd and Viola have finally been reunited in the ruins of New Prentisstown, but their momentary relief and happiness at finding each [...]

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