Book Review: The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle

This story follows Emilie Day as she leaves the comfort of homeschooling to attend the local public high school. Bracing for the worst, Emilie finds that between her new friend Ayla and the cute basketball star Chatham; she might actually…

Ten Reasons to read JANE, UNLIMITED by Kristin Cashore

Welcome to the blog tour for Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore! Today we’re sharing our top 10 reasons to read this unique novel: Choose your own adventure – The closest descriptor I’ve been able to come up with for Jane,…

Video Game Review: Destiny 2

There are a lot of reasons why Destiny could be considered a failure, but the biggest one of all was a major loss of potential. Bungie’s big step out post-Halo was built up for over a year as a vast…

6 TV Shows That Have Overstayed Their Welcome

Although we’re currently living in peak TV where the landscape includes over three hundred scripted shows, there are some television studio traditions that never die. One of these is continuing to renew shows long, long after they’ve lost their creative…

Movie Review: First They Killed My Father

In case you didn’t know, Angelina Jolie is an activist for human rights. The Oscar-winner has had one of the more successful transitions from sex symbol to legitimate presence in Hollywood. Despite being on tabloid magazine covers almost every week,…

Movie Review: Gaga: Five Foot Two

The first shot of Gaga: Five Foot Two is worrying: It’s the heels of Lady Gaga’s rhinestone boots, ascending to the sky with the Bulgarian folk song “Kaval Sviri” playing in the background as if she’s become the shining Mother…

Movie Review: Unrest

For a time, Jennifer Brea had a near-perfect life. At 25 years old she was a PhD student at Princeton and married to the man of her dreams, internet analyst and social networking pioneer Omar Wasow. But then the sickness…