This is part two of a Read/Watch/Listen bookmark series by the Heights Matchmakers, celebrating the Heights Libraries’ Centennial decade by decade! Books: The Castle by Franz […]
Genre Benders
Take two middle school nerds, outliers who are each supremely gifted in opposing ways. Add one assassin. Sprinkle in some mentors from unlikely places. Liberally […]
Dark, Deep, and Dystopian
The best kind of sci-fi, in my opinion, is the kind in which it’s clear that the author is looking at a current technology and […]
Favorite 15 in ’15
Today is New Year’s Eve. A day when people spend time reflecting on the past year and reveling in their favorite moments. In the spirit of […]
Read Harder
I am a big fan of reading challenges. Every year I do the Goodreads Challenge, where you set a goal for how many books […]
Strange New Things
Peter is a former addict turned pastor who has been chosen in a highly selective process to serve as pastor to the natives of the […]
See You in the Post Apocalypse
Lately I find myself recommending, with a caveat, an amazing and surprisingly hopeful post-apocalyptic novel. The caveat is that I don’t usually enjoy post-apocalyptic stories […]
30 Day Book Challenge: Day 24 — A Book That You Wish More People Would Have Read
I loved this book, and definitely not enough people have read it: The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex There are lots of great […]
The Last Policeman Faces the Last Days of Earth
What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Asteroid 2011GV1, a.k.a. Maia, is an asteroid on a collusion course […]