Aug 31, 2025
Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.
Michael Joseph Murano, Age of the Seer
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Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.
Michael Joseph Murano, Age of the Seer
It is a rather remarkable trick of the mind that there can be a wicked little voice that whispers in your ear that you’ve done it before and nothing happened, so why not do it again? Everything will be OK, it says. Things are bad now, but something will turn up. The good will prevail, you’ll be rescued, you’ll find the answer at the last minute. No one dies in a story…
F.D. Lee, The Fairy's Tale
How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn’t occasionally say yes?
F.D. Lee, The Fairy's Tale
Return me safely to my home,” the princess said, “and I shall reward you with your weight in eggs.” Olorun snorted derisively. “You’re joking, right?” The woman’s eyes flitted in embarrassment. “Now wait a minute,” said Helianthus. “We’re talkin’ eggs here. What sort of eggs? Ostrich eggs?” Neferre made an impatient noise. “Hel! She doesn’t have any eggs! Unless they’re hidden in a very . . . delicate place.” Neferre grinned at the princess. “Tell me your eggs are hidden where I think they’re hidden.
Ash Gray, Time's Arrow
Best Books I Read in 2025
First Top 10 Tuesday post of 2026! Happy New Year, everyone!!! This week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt has us look at our best books of 2025, and I am eager to see what everyone has to share! My own favorites are listed below, and reviews shared earlier by me HERE. My reading list is still heavier on the historical fantasy fiction side, but I am glad I managed to pick up on non-fiction reads as…
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Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell WoodsPublished: 2025Recommended for fans of: Patricia McKillip, Juliet Marillier, To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo, gritty folktale retellings, The Gothic, the poem Sea-Fever, The Pirates of the Caribbean This is a retelling of The Little Mermaid (with some elements of other tales besides), set in the coastal city of Saint-Malo, France (see that lovely image…
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Top 10 Reads of 2024
It’s time to list our top 10 reads of 2024 (and download massive TBR reclists, of course). Not much of reading this year, but I would not have missed this Top 10 Tuesday theme for the world! 1 / The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo I have not been a great fan or follower of the Grishaverse, so was hesitant in picking this up. But what a marvelous story this turned out to be. We peer into the ages of…
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