Month: February 2012
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Rhyme Schemes Are Hard
I’ve been experimenting with poetry recently … you know, the kind that actually follows some kind of pattern. My conclusion is that rhyme schemes are harder than they look. This doesn’t have a title, but here you go: Warm and generous, like the sun Always giving, ever feeding The hungers of a world still…
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Review: The Realms Thereunder (CSFF Tour, Day 2)
Ross Lawhead is probably doomed (or blessed, however you want to look at it) to have his name linked to his father and sometime cowriter, Stephen R. Lawhead, in every review. Perils of having a famous father (well, famous in our little backwater genre, anyway). But Ross’s first solely penned novel, The Realms Thereunder, stands…
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CSFF Tour: The Realms Thereunder (Day 1)
It’s time for another CSFF Blog Tour! Perhaps because I am glutton for punishment, I requested this latest book even though I have PILES and PILES of other reading that has to be done on deadline in the next few months. I was interested because the author, Ross Lawhead, is the son of Stephen R.…
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Review: The Land of Darkness
The Land of Darkness is the third fairy tale in C.S. Lakin’s Gates of Heaven series, this time following the quest of a twelve-year-old girl named Jadiel and her unlikely companion, a woodworking apprentice who is obsessed with finding a legendary bridge. Driven out by her evil stepmother to find the eternal-youth-giving leaves of a…