TV #38 of 2024: Babylon 5, season 1 Although an improvement over the pilot movie The Gathering, this first full season of Babylon 5 still isn’t at a consistent quality level for me to raise it higher than my personal 3-star rating tier. I thought I might, during a few episodes! The comparison to its …
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Book Review: The January 6th Report by The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
Book #132 of 2024: The January 6th Report by The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol An incredibly damning account of the January 2021 riot and then-President Donald Trump’s role in fomenting it, as meticulously assembled by the members of a bipartisan congressional committee and their staff who …
Book Review: Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
Book #131 of 2024: Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson Novelizations are an interesting business. There’s a long history of them in the Doctor Who franchise, and back in the days before home video recording and on-demand streaming, they originally served the purpose of making TV stories more accessible to anyone …
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Book Review: Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical by Barbara Isenberg
Book #130 of 2024: Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical by Barbara Isenberg The stage musical Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in September 1964, so with its sixty-year anniversary coming up, I thought I would check out this title, written to …
Book Review: The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams
Book #129 of 2024: The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams (The Babysitters Coven #1) Given the title, I was expecting this 2019 series debut to be a smart and loving homage to The Babysitters Club, with some nice new witchy twist thrown in on top. Instead, it’s unfortunately more of a half-baked Buffy-meets-Labyrinth affair, with …
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Book Review: Aftershock by Chris Archer
Book #128 of 2024: Aftershock by Chris Archer (Mindwarp #6) Another excellent and propulsive installment of this 90s middle-grade alien conspiracy series. We’ve got time travel now! The latest protagonist to turn thirteen and unlock special powers from her extraterrestrial heritage is one of the popular kids in school — not quite a mean girl, …
Book Review: The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Book #127 of 2024: The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The bulk of this novel surrounds the production of a fictional Hollywood movie in the 1950s, centering on its insecure young starlet who’s been recently plucked from obscurity in Mexico and thrust unexpectedly into the glitzy limelight (not to mention its dark racist …
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Book Review: Phoenix by Steven Brust
Book #126 of 2024: Phoenix by Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos #5) I’m perhaps a bit biased, as this was the first Vlad Taltos book that I ever picked up back in the day, but I do think it’s a big step forward from the previous volumes and possibly a series-best entry. In typical bouncing timeline …
Book Review: The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman
Book #125 of 2024: The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman An excellent and appreciably queer new prequel to 2021’s The Blacktongue Priest, although the two stories are so standalone that they could probably be read in either order. Approaching them by release date, as I have, merely underscores the tragic nature of the present title: …
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Book Review: Stone Speaks to Stone by Victoria Goddard
Book #124 of 2024: Stone Speaks to Stone by Victoria Goddard A roughly-standalone prequel novella to author Victoria Goddard’s Greenwing & Dart series (which is itself just a smaller piece of her overarching Nine Worlds fantasy saga). I’ve chosen to read it after the first three G&D novels, which feels like the right choice, as …
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