By: Christopher Bartlett If you’ve never seen an episode of TV that is split into two parts where you have to wait a whole week to see the second part, Jim Butcher’s Battle Ground is about as close as you’ll get. Although, I doubt any episode of TV has come close to being as good... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett We all have those books we pick up when we see a preview for a tv series or a movie being made based on them. Mainly because we know it is always a promising idea to read the book before seeing the movies or series on screen. Still, I wasn’t sure what... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett We all see various posts and memes across social media with inspiration quotes, along with lines in books and magazines that inspire us. When you look at the comment and highlights in any of them though, there are a ton of variations. It’s not because the words communicate a different message to... Continue Reading →
I’m still not sure how Term One by L. J. Swallow, the first book in her Nightworld Academy series, ended up in my Kindle library, but I'm glad it did. I started reading it blindly, thinking it to be an urban fantasy version of Harry Potter, only for it to turn out to be more... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett I wasn’t looking to start another book when I took a peek inside Ashley O’Melia’s The Wanderer’s Guide to Dragon Keeping. I’m still glad I peeked inside. It’s size is deceptive as it sucks you in deeper than expected. While the story shows the challenges of raising a dragon in the modern... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett On a recent whim, I picked up a copy of Poster Girl by Veronica Roth. It was mostly out of curiosity, since I hadn’t read anything by her since her Divergent trilogy. I was surprised at how it sucked me in so quickly. In a manner I hadn’t experienced since The Hunger... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett I’ve always been fascinated with history and how society shaped itself over time. Getting a feel for the society of the time tells me much more than names or dates. In Isle of Woman, Piers Anthony gives me what I wish I had been given in my history classes for a textbook,... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett I’m sure most of you are looking at the title this month and wondering if I have lost my mind. I can assure you I haven’t, but I was going back to where I started really understanding writing. Two things that pop up every time are wrestling and comic books. Both are... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett When Jim Butcher originally started writing Peace Talks, it was meant to be a self-contained book. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for us, it ended up turning out like a two-part episode of a television show. Peace Talks being part one of the episode. Even this late in the series, Butcher manages... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett I’ve been a member of a service called Book of The Month Club for a number of years, simply because I enjoy discovering new books and authors. Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor is one of the books that has come across my desk in that time. And while it is not a... Continue Reading →
Functionally Fictional 