By: Christopher Bartlett WWW Wednesday is a weekly reading update hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? We all have those books we try to stretch out because we want them to last as long as... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett Recently, I got tempted into rejoining Book Of The Month (full disclosure that is my personal referral link for those wanting to join or curious about it). They got me to rejoin with a free book, which tells you it wasn’t that difficult, especially since I had had such a good experience... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett I have started a bunch of books lately and haven’t had time to finish them. Hopefully this weekend that’ll change. Here’s my literary journey this week. WWW Wednesday is a weekly reading update hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett Almost everyone has those favorite pieces of fiction where once the climax starts, no matter how late it is or how tired they are, they just can’t stop till it resolves. In some cases, resulting in hours of lost sleep as they turn page after page. Followed by a day of limping... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett When most people think of a personal weapon in a movie, television show, or book, it is usually a gun or some type of laser weapon. Today, though, we will look at those that don’t fall in that category. The most common after the gun/laser is probably the longsword/broadsword/bastard sword. We see... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett Nightmare Magazine is a monthly magazine dedicated to dark fantasy and horror stories edited by John Joseph Adams. It has featured stories and articles by the likes of Adam Howe, Adam-Troy Castro, Bonnie Jo Stuffiebeam, Brandon Massey, Carrie Vaughn, Christa Faust, Clive Barker, and Joe Hill, to name some, though there are... Continue Reading →
By: Christopher Bartlett Some will see this title and wonder why anyone would ever compare digital books to the printing press. But think about one of the complaints modern bookworms have in that we can never carry as many books with us as we want to. Digital books make it so that we can without... Continue Reading →
By: Christoper Bartlett Happy New Year, and welcome to 2020 here at Functionally Fictional and the second WWW Wednesday of the new year. WWW Wednesday is a weekly reading update hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the Saturday Smorgasbord. It is my pleasure to welcome you, as well as show you around a bit.
By: Christopher Bartlett Angie Rooker’s Enchanted Sacred Garden: Dragon comes across lighthearted even as it deals with issues, which is not a terrible thing. For me it comes across as a mix of the 80s and early 90s Saturday Morning cartoons (you know, when they treated the viewer as if they had a brain) combined... Continue Reading →
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