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...
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....
by A.S. Hardin | Sep 13, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I have always loved cryptids, specifically Bigfoot and Yeti. Maybe it’s because I’m drawn to stories about the unknown, or because I enjoy ones of survival in inhospitable or uninhabited settings, or maybe it’s because I’ve grown up with the legend of the Alabama...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Aug 9, 2024 | Determined to Dance Podcast, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Guest Bloggers
Good morning and Happy Friday! Today I thought I’d dive into The Naked Sun, one of my favorite works by Isaac Asimov, which feels particularly poignant in the current climate of AI and technology rapidly subsuming our lives. The novel opens with detective Elijah Baley...
