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Christ is Risen!

Russian Easter Festival Overture The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom:If anyone is devout and a lover of God, let him enjoy this beautiful and radiant festival.If anyone is a wise servant, let him, rejoicing, enter into the joy of his Lord.If anyone has wearied himself in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.If anyone has labored from the first hour, let him today receive his just…

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It's Bingo time!

One of the best things about failing is you get to try again. I didn’t read all the books I had lined up for last year’s r/fantasy bingo challenge, but I’m going for it again this year. Even though I didn’t manage to write reviews of all the books I did read, the goal made me take a different approach to reading than I normally would. I spent more time thinking about the style and flow of the…

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It wasn't complete but it was something

I didn’t meet my goal of reading all my choices for the 2022 r/fantasy Bingo challenge. I finished nine books, wrote and published reviews of four, and had partial draft reviews of two more. I’m actually pretty happy with the fact that I even got that much done. Lots has happened since last April and my life is very different than I thought it might be. I like the idea of doing a year in review…

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Anyone still here?

I’m sorry I’ve not posted for the last several months. Life has kind of gotten the best of me for many reasons. The best of those reasons is that in September I got engaged!!! I’ve been barely keeping my nose above water with the wedding planning, moving planning, and then the holidays happened and now it’s Lent and…..life. It is happening. I am currently working on two different reviews with…

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The Queen is dead, long live the King

The Queen is dead, long live the King

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Book Review: Project Hail Mary

Book Review: Project Hail Mary

Adventure is out there! Get ready for a wild ride into outer space in a last ditch attempt to save humanity from whatever is causing the sun to go out. Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir’s fourth novel and cements him in my mind as one of the best science fiction writers of our time. This was the first book I read for this year’s r/fantasy bingo challenge, and I’ve recommended it to other readers…

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Something different

In a departure from the usual fare of poetry and book reviews I want to tell you about something I did today. I went through my bathroom cabinets and sorted out all my expired medicines, lotions, makeup, and other random stuff. I found some items that expired in 2018, meaning that I moved with them when they should have been trashed! I would recommend going through your own cabinets, especially…

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Book Review: Unfettered, Shawn Speakman Editor

Book Review: Unfettered, Shawn Speakman Editor

Wahooo! I have returned!! This one is a little different than my usual sort of book, and definitely different than my usual review. Today I’m going to attempt to talk coherently about the fantasy anthology Unfettered, edited by Shawn Speakman. This counts for the Five Short Stories bingo square in hard mode, as I read the entire collection. The book has 23 stories from various authors including…

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I haven't disappeared

I haven’t disappeared

I’m still around! I haven’t forgotten about this project, or just given up. I have, however, gotten stuck. The review I’m currently working on is of an anthology of short stories and that’s a horse of a different colour. I’ve been slowly chipping away at the review, but it’s not coming out right, so I think I need to change my approach. This is just to let y’all know that more reviews will be…

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Book Review: Machinehood by S.B. Divya

Book Review: Machinehood by S.B. Divya

R/fantasy Bingo challenge review number two ready for action! The chosen square is “Book Club or Readalong book,” the book is Machinehood by S.B. Divya, published in 2021. I went for Hard mode, which meant participating in the discussion posts. I didn’t really get into the big back and forth discussions, but I did answer the discussion questions that got posted. SPOILERS AHEAD The year is 2095,…

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Book Review: Machinehood by S.B. Divya

Book Review: Machinehood by S.B. Divya

R/fantasy Bingo challenge review number two ready for action! The chosen square is “Book Club or Readalong book,” the book is Machinehood by S.B. Divya, published in 2021. I went for Hard mode, which meant participating in the discussion posts. I didn’t really get into the big back and forth discussions, but I did answer the discussion questions that got posted. SPOILERS AHEAD The year is 2095,…

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Book Review: Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

Allonsy! My first book review for the r/fantasy 2022 Bingo challenge is here. I decided to swap the “LGBTQIA List Book” square with the “A Novel Written the Decade You Were Born” square from the 2016 card. Given that I’m an ’80s baby, I had to find something from the era of big hair and shoulder pads. Enter the first of David Eddings’s Belgariad quintet Pawn of Prophecy, published in���

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I'm back...maybe?

I’m back…maybe?

It seems like forever since I started writing here, and almost immediately abandoned it. I realize now that I was trying to force something that should come naturally if I want to enjoy it. I think I’ve found something that I’d like to write on a more regular basis: book reviews. Not just any books, but specifically speculative fiction. Every year in the Fantasy subreddit there’s a friendly…

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Thoughts in a graveyard

Thoughts in a graveyard

Have you ever taken the time to go to a graveyard, sit in the quiet and sunshine alone with the dead, and pray? It’s almost uncanny how peaceful it is to be surrounded by our fathers and brothers departed before us. Unknown In the midst of naming stones, each marking a plot as Perry’s or Freeze’s or North’s, lies a small slab, mostly overgrown, which simply says Unknown. Who were you? What were…

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Musings inspired by St. Irenaeus

Musings inspired by St. Irenaeus

Over the last two weeks I’ve had the privilege to spend the afternoons reading from the Early Church Fathers with new friends and old. One feature of our days was taking an hour, morning and evening, to be quiet and contemplate the readings or whatever God put on our minds. The second week we read the St. Irenaeus of Lyon’s Against Heresies in which he presents the beliefs of the Gnostics.  He…

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Musings inspired by St. Irenaeus

Musings inspired by St. Irenaeus

Over the last two weeks I’ve had the privilege to spend the afternoons reading from the Early Church Fathers with new friends and old. One feature of our days was taking an hour, morning and evening, to be quiet and contemplate the readings or whatever God put on our minds. The second week we read the St. Irenaeus of Lyon’s Against Heresies in which he presents the beliefs of the Gnostics.  He…

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Yepraksia Gevorgyan, 110

Armenian genocide: survivors recall events 100 years on