Tales from the Raven

An arthurian urban fantasy by Peter David, Knight Life is about the return of King Arthur to modern day New York, and his subsequent political campaign for the mayorship. I wouldn’t say it was a can’t-put-it-down read, but once I set it down I was sure to look around and find I’d picked it up again.  The [...]

I owe this book my sanity. Not only in the here and now, for giving me something real and funny to keep me going through my math class, but also for saving me from the wonderful world of worm pee, hand-pollination, and all-out war with the local flora and fuana. Which is to say, I [...]

I’ve discovered a new love. No, not that kind!  The mystery genre caught my attention for a few years in my tweens but I have’t visited it since.  Then over the holidays I was desperate for a book and feeling like something different, so when I dug through my book stack and found Dead Cert, a [...]

This is the first novel in C.S. Lewis’s science fiction space trilogy.  The book takes place mostly on Malacandra (Mars), and tells the story of kidnapped earthman Elwin Ransom as he mingles with the natives and deals with the antagonists, Dr. Weston and his associate Devine. The series explains through myth the Christian doctrine of temptation and the [...]

I paraphrased the title, but that’s the rough idea.  It’s a self-help book for wannabe authors by Pat Walsh, and arguably the best of its kind.  I’m recommend this as a great gift to give or get this holiday season. Reasons I’m raving: It combines two very important elements.  First, the advice is concise and generally dead on.  I’m not [...]

C.S. Lewis has the tongue of an angel, albeit a demonic one, in his affectionately signed Screwtape Letters.  The book is written entirely as letters from a doting uncle to his junior tempter nephew, Wormwood, who is out in the world on his first assignment.  It is Wormwood’s goal to tempt his patient into paths of sin and worldliness, and his dear old [...]