by Katie Richards | Mar 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Crafts & Hobbies
A Walk in Eden is one of the new crop of adult coloring books released just in time for the holidays by cartoonist Anders Nilsen. Fans of Nilsen’s cartoon works will recognize his subtly odd style that pokes gentle fun at our modern world in every page, while...
by Katie Richards | Feb 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror
Ghost Talkers is a novel set in an alternate version of World War I. When British soldiers die at the front, they “report in” and give any details about the enemy or their death that they can to mediums, who report this information to the army to use as...
by Katie Richards | Jan 20, 2017 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Short Stories
This Way to the End Times is exactly what the title advertises, a nice, thick collection of science fiction and speculative stories about the end of the world. Robert Silverberg, himself an award winning science fiction writer, has a deft touch in choosing the...
by Katie Richards | Dec 13, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
The Real Peter Pan is a sort of group biography, encompassing the lives of J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, and the five Llewelyn-Davies boys who inspired his work in this and other plays. The focus of the text is from the meeting of Barrie with the older boys...
by Katie Richards | Nov 28, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press Formats: Hardcover Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound[/alert] In The Taste of Egypt Dyna Eldaief strives to make the familiar home cooking of her Egyptian childhood...
