by A.S. Hardin | Jul 10, 2026 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I finally read Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, and it certainly held up to its promises of a strange case. The story unfolds mostly through the perspective of Utterson, a lawyer and a friend of Dr. Jekyll. Utterson is quiet, reasonable, and rarely upended by his...
by Cammi Woodall | Jan 16, 2026 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
To ring in the new year of 2026, I decided to review a favorite book of mine by Alabama native Robert McCammon. Boy’s Life, published in 1991, is a beautiful, bittersweet blend of Southern gothic, horror, coming-of-age, and nostalgia as our hero faces growing up in...
by A.S. Hardin | Nov 14, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“I will make you bleed. I will make you humble. You may be my creator, but from this day forward, I will be your master.” While there never has been—and likely never will be—an adaptation that comes close to the beauty of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,...
by Cammi Woodall | Jul 18, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction
I am honestly not sure how we Gen X’ers are not all in therapy all the time. As I was thinking about what to write for this article, I decided ‘How about a children’s book or a movie I loved as a kid?’ So I started down the rabbit hole… Watership Down – The book AND...
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 Cammi Woodall | Feb 21, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction
At six years old, I firmly believed that I was capable – if it became necessary due to an evil millionaire wanting my ‘powers’ – of leaving home by myself, travelling across the United States, and finding a mysterious mountain I’d never heard of before. Why did I...
