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  • Flying the Family Freak Flag

    In my very first memory, I’m visiting my great-baba at her home in Vegreville, Alberta, Canada (home of the world’s largest Ukrainian Easter egg). She’s cooing at my little brother in Ukrainian and I’m fascinated by the vortex of the spiral ramp just outside her room. In my very second memory, my brother and I Read more

  • Readux: Mirror Mirror

    Title: Mirror MirrorAuthor: Gregory MaguirePublished: 2003; Harper CollinsGenre: FantasyDate Started: July 16, 2012 Date Finished: July 30, 2012Rating: Three out of fiveWorthy of Note: While the covers of Gregory Maguire’s books are beautiful, the cut-out feature they have always makes me crazy because I’m afraid that they’re going to get torn while going in and out of my purse and covorting with Read more

  • The Perils of a Vivid Imagination

    I will make this confession quick: I, Amanda, am a sissy.But not about normal things. I’m okay with spiders (as long as they’re not on me), and rodents (as long as they don’t run at me from their hiding place in the garage), and visceral things. I could probably get through life easier if those Read more

  • Readux: A Storm of Swords

    Title: A Storm of SwordsAuthor: George R. R. MartinPublished: 2000; Bantam SpectraGenre: FantasyDate Started: June 8, 2012 Date Finished: July 13, 2012Worthy of Note: I am probably not as ashamed as I should be about looking up all the plot details before reading this book. The offensive Wikipedia event in question happened the very day I finished A Clash of Kings, with Read more

  • It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fantasy writer in possession of a laptop named Charlie should have a somewhat-violent Google search history.

    It has been a vair exciting couple of weeks at my writing desk. (Not for followers of this blog, mind you…) I have been working away at what has become 20 pages of action-packed goodness that I’m afraid may have sent my Google into a state of shock. Thoughts of hypovolemia, exsanguination, bruised kidneys, merrows, Read more

  • Checkpoint

    I’m days away from the halfway mark of the Great Book Ban of 2012! Or, as I prefer to look at it, six months away from winning supreme gloating rights over my dear Christopher, who stubbornly maintains that I will break down and go on a massive semi-psychotic book haul before 2013 is upon us.To Read more