by Arthur | Oct 17, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Arthur here. I come to you today to open to your perusing one of the best speculative fiction series I have ever read: Swallows and Amazons. The twelve-book series combines historical fiction (at least it’s historical to us, today), children’s literature,...
by A.S. Hardin | Oct 10, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
This review is going to be a little different than usual. Today, I’m not discussing a book I’ve read but one I am exceptionally excited for. Following its late November release in Polish, Andrzej Sapkowski released a prequel to the eight-book Witcher series in English...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Oct 3, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I love spec fiction. Whether it’s fantasy, sci-fi, time travel, or Gothic inspirational, I read many books from these genres. But sometimes I like a change. I tend to binge-read, and this past summer, I devoured the twenty British mystery novels in Margery...
by Cammi Woodall | Sep 26, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
In 2006, a friend of mine gave me his copy of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks and said, “You have to read it!!!” (I know I put three exclamation points there, but his enthusiasm was that high!) Don’t be put off by the word ‘zombie’ in the...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Sep 19, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I found an old, beat-up copy of George Orwell’s 1984 at a thrift store. It’d been years since I read this story/warning/prophecy of sorts. So, today I will talk to you about my thoughts on this dystopian classic… “The best books, he perceived,...
by K.A. Ramstad | Sep 5, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Looking for an adventure that’s reminiscent of a fairy tale? Immerse yourself in The Blue Bird of Happiness by S.M. Shigemitsu–a retelling of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play “The Blue Bird,” featuring the brother and sister heroes Tyltyl and Mytyl. In case you’re...
