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  • Readux: Flintlock Edition

    Readux: Flintlock Edition

    As soon as I saw the cover with an old soldier slouching in a throne, a rifle in his hand, blood pooling at his feet, with the tagline “The age of kings is dead… and I have killed it,” I knew I needed to read this book. Read more

  • Visitations

    The past few months have been a funny ol’ time. Maybe it was because of Christmas, which has a tendency to bring out my starry-eyed childhood nostalgia. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I read a number of books in a row that were a return to characters or places I already… Read more

  • Readux: Something Wicked This Way Comes Edition

    Readux: Something Wicked This Way Comes Edition

    If combining or defying genres is truly all the rage, then Something Red is one of the most fashionable reads around. Part gothic horror, part historical, part coming-of-age, part fantasy, it weaves a single story from all of these threads, an uncommon tapestry of a tale. Read more

  • Readux: Magic Dance Edition

    Readux: Magic Dance Edition

    I distinctly remember being quite young and perusing the bookstore, and on several occasions picking up a certain book and reading the synopsis on the back: a young man finds a young woman bleeding on a London street. Read more

  • Not a Very Merry Readux…

    Not a Very Merry Readux…

    The Mists of Avalon is one of those book that I felt obligated to read. Reading it was a study in fantasy literature… and maybe that’s why it felt a bit like homework. Read more

  • Readux, Double Down Edition: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One & Day Two

    Readux, Double Down Edition: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One & Day Two

    I started reading The Name of the Wind in Paris, of all places. There was a small library of books from previous guests at the apartment we were staying in, and The Name of the Wind was one of the few in English. As luck would have it, I had been waiting for a good… Read more