fantasy

Help Fight Mental Illness

I may live in Maine now, but I got my start in the writing world out in Utah, and I still have many friends in the writing community out there. Robison Wells, the brother of a good author friend of mine, is an excellent author in his own right. He wrote the fantastic Variant series, and I highly recommend them. But more than that, he suffers from crippling OCD. Not the OCD you hear people offhandedly dismiss (“I’m so OCD about my bathroom.”) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is much different than someone just liking things to be a certain way. In […]

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Book Review: Words of Radiance

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Epic fantasy is epic. I know that should go without saying, but it’s important to get that out there at the start of this review. Because Sanderson isn’t mucking about with fantasy here. The Stormlight Archive is epic at its most epic-ness. If you’re not in for the whole shebang, then this isn’t up your alley. What’s the whole shebang? An entirely different world that doesn’t just need a map to make sense of–it needs an almanac. Something to tell what all the animals and plants do, what

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Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug Review

Headed out to the theater to catch Hobbit 2: Desolation of Smaug yesterday in 3D. By myself. Because when you’ve got a baby, your options for theater viewing become narrower, and I really didn’t want to miss this one in theaters. I imagine that for most of you, this review is superfluous. You’ve already made your mind up about whether or not you’re going to see the film, and you’re mainly curious as to what I thought. First, some context. I reviewed the first one a year ago, and I loved that one. If you look up “Target Audience for

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TV Series Review: Under the Dome

I’d heard a lot of good things about Under the Dome when it was on TV, but honestly I’m to the point that very few shows interest me enough to want to watch them on a week to week basis. I like to watch a show all at once–or at the very least season by season. (Strange to hear myself say that, but it’s true. Netflix has changed the way I prefer to consume my television. And why not? Who wants to suffer through week after week of cliffhangers?) The one bad thing about Under the Dome was that it

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Book Review: Red Seas under Red Skies

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s a sign of how well my new Kindle Paperwhite is working out for me that I’ve already finished a lengthy fantasy on the thing. I loved The Lies of Locke Lamora, and I’ve been looking forward to the sequel, so I decided to use the excuse of a new Kindle to try it out with a good book. (Well, I assumed it would be a good book–thankfully, I was not disappointed.) Like the first, it’s a heist book at its heart. Locke and Jean have

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