by A.S. Hardin | Jun 13, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts
“But I have to save humanity first. Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies.” What can I say except I love reluctant heroes, and Ryland Grace is one of the best! Once again, Andy Weir has written a story with a limited cast and still managed to blow it...
by A.S. Hardin | May 16, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Something you’ll hear me say again and again. A bad narrator can make a good book bad, but a good narrator can make a bad book good. My journey into audiobooks began with some… hesitancy. My husband insisted I give them a try, but no single narrator seemed to pique my...
by A.S. Hardin | Mar 14, 2025 | Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
The Picture of Dorian Gray begins with a simple yet obvious realization, but for Dorian, this offhand comment of Lord Henry Wotton is tragic. Dorian’s youth, his beauty, his remarkable and most admired quality will fade, one day leaving him a withered old man just...
by A.S. Hardin | Feb 14, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
When True Night Falls is the second book in C.S. Friedman’s Coldfire series. In this extraordinarily well-crafted world of Erna, True Night refers to a period when the sun is completely absent and the world is thrust into complete darkness. In this darkness, the...
by A.S. Hardin | Nov 8, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.” Though A Princess of Mars isn’t ERB’s most successful work, it is still one of the many great pulp sci-fi stories in history....
