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Mur Lafferty’s SIX WAKES brings murder mystery to unkillable victims

My latest book review for Girls in Capes features Mur Lafferty’s new science fiction murder mystery: When Maria Arena’s next clone body wakes up, she has a bit of difficulty getting out of the cloning vat, which is a little atypical. When she finally climbs out, she discovers that all six members of the ship’sContinue reading “Mur Lafferty’s SIX WAKES brings murder mystery to unkillable victims”

Check out my most recent manga review at Girls in Capes

Find my latest review up now at Girls in Capes: With that in mind, as a Madoka*Magica franchise fan, most of the mystery of the series evaporated. While that’s true of other spinoff series as well, the direct intersection of Oriko’s path with the plot of the main series is a major detraction from myContinue reading “Check out my most recent manga review at Girls in Capes”

Find out what I recommend in Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy in Summer 2016

My newest piece on Girls in Capes is a recommendation list of this summer’s most anticipated adult science fiction and fantasy for GiC readers. I have a notoriously tall To Be Read pile. If you look at my Goodreads account, you’ll see that I consistently have 10 or more books shelved in Currently Reading, andContinue reading “Find out what I recommend in Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy in Summer 2016”

Read more about Girls in Capes book club in Main Line Today!

After a few months of sitting on this pretty exciting news, I can finally share the exciting news: I was profiled in Main Line Today’s February 2016 issue! That sense of being “other” extended to her predilection for reading. Casano could read by the time she was 3 years old. Her earliest experience with fictionContinue reading “Read more about Girls in Capes book club in Main Line Today!”

New editor’s letter at Girls in Capes for November’s Epic Issue!

I’ve got a new Editor’s Letter up at Girls in Capes! This month’s letter addresses something that bothers me about Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey: But alas: like many literary structures, the different stages of Campbell’s monomyth — summarized here on Wikipedia — has some of the gendered earmarks of its time.  Written in 1949, the workContinue reading “New editor’s letter at Girls in Capes for November’s Epic Issue!”