Category: Book Reviews

The island of Iona, off the coast of Scotland, is a place of reverence and mystique. Rumored to be where the Book of Kells was originally penned, as well as a possible stopping place for …

For those who follow Youtube’s popular “Ask a Mortician” series or read the blog “The Order of the Good Death” the name Caitlin Doughty is a familiar. With Betty Paige bangs and a big smile, Caitlin …

Curtsies and Conspiracies is the second book in the Finishing School series and, like the first, a mix of steampunk, humor, and adventure, now with a little light romance thrown in (somewhat to Sophronia’s dismay). …

“She’s just shy.” For the majority of Cynthia Kim’s life, her inability to relate to others, difficulties reading body language and ability to get lost in her projects was seen as just another case of …

Any employee of a retail chain can attest, the day to day life of a retail employee is hell. From maintaining a perfectly conformed shopping experience to daily affirmations of employee loyalty, a retail job …

Take a boarding school story. Add a dollop of steampunk, a sprinkling of mystery, and a healthy helping of humor, and you have Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminneck is not particularly …

A Snicker of Magic is a spindiddly book. In other words, it is written by a word lover for word lovers, and I fell in love with it right away. It also has a great …

Sherlock Holmes has come out of retirement for a case in the midst of World War 1. Doctor John Watson feels shocked and horrified at the death of his nephew on the fields of France …

Though from our arm chairs and couches we viewers offer our own opinion week by week to how a show should be, sometimes we cannot see the true difficulty of the life of the Showrunner. …

Losing a best friend can be worse than losing a lover. The person you spend so much time with, share so many secrets with, is suddenly gone overnight.  Jessica Smock and Stephanie Sprenger compile and …