On April 26th-27th we hosted our 11th annual charity stream, and it was nothing short of amazing! We set a goal of $10,000, and thanks to this incredible community, we smashed it—raising $11,144.69! This milestone brings our total funds raised to over $98,000 for The Trevor Project (with eight streams dedicated to their cause) and …

Adam S. Leslie, you’ve written quite a book. Lost in the Garden is like a dream I had and forgot, and then Leslie went and excavated it. I don’t know how he did it, but this is whimsy without twee. It explodes the manic pixie dream girl trope without doing harm to the eponymous girl: …

The Purest Fires finally return to Kaori Shrine to speak with Mizuno Amari.  Before doing so though, they are met by their good friend Omug.  Despite their short break between missions, Omug informs them that they’ll be leaving again soon on yet another one.  What will their next mission be?  Find out on this episode …

One of my favorite things going on right now is sequel books that are better than the first one. I don’t think it’s fair to call it a trend per say, maybe I’m just lucky in my choices or maybe there is some other reason. But whatever the cause for it, 2023 was a year …

This year’s charity stream was incredible. We set the goal for the stream at $13,500 and you smashed it! By the end of the stream you had raised $14,639.69!* This incredible amount means that we have raised over $71,000 for The Trevor Project through our streams and amazingly over $101,000 in total across all the …

Ever since conspiracies exploded into the mainstream in America and started ruining lives and families, I have been leery of them in fiction. As with our collective disinterest in dystopia, it’s hard to escape to a world that isn’t, well, much of an escape. And that’s a shame, because high-stakes espionage and the thrill of …

Jólabókaflóðið may look like a pretty stabby word, but it’s actually a delightful compound that literally means “Yule book flood.” It refers to an Icelandic tradition that makes books a traditional gift around the December holidays, and we’re all for instituting it more widely. Here are the books we read that we’re recommending for giving this year, …

I’ve always felt that visual art should make you feel something first, and secondarily aspire to teach, satirize, or otherwise comment on life. Where that feeling falls on the aesthetic spectrum doesn’t bother me as much—disgust can be a fascinating emotion, just as awe or beauty can—but we have to care before we want to …

Murders, fluffy dogs, and cocktail recipes: The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal has it all…in spaaaace! This extremely fun and fast paced murder mystery doesn’t exactly stick the landing but is so much fun I didn’t really care. Tesla Crane, a Tony Stark insanely rich inventor type, is on her honeymoon with her new …

If you haven’t given the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir a try yet, stop reading this right now and go read that instead. Seriously: go, you can thank me later. I also had not read it until now, and it’s easily the best series I’ve started since A Chorus of Dragons–and I loved that …