I’ve been away from the blog for longer than I would have liked, but time seems to vanish during this time of the year. I had hoped to post my review of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Unholy Night, a reimagining of the story of the Three Wise Men and Joseph and Mary’s flight to Egypt, but I’ll…
Tis the season for holiday sales, so the Kindle version of Enoch’s Device is on sale for the next four days. If you’ve read the novel and enjoyed it, now is a perfect time to tell a friend! Here’s what the book is about: Nearly a thousand years after the birth of Christ, when all Europe fears that the…
Last Sunday’s season finale of Westworld on HBO served as a near perfect end to what has been one of my favorite shows on television in years. As I predicted last week, Ford’s new narrative was the finale’s ultimate focus, but the twist at the end proved completely unexpected. Note, *SPOILERS* for the season finale…
With one episode to go, a few mysteries still remain on HBO’s Westworld, even though two of the biggest appear to have been solved last Sunday. One remaining mystery concerns the new narrative Ford has been obsessing about since episode 2. This begs the question: What game is Ford playing on Westworld? Here’s what we…
Today, Fresh-scraped Vellum is one of the final stops on the blog tour for Written in the Ashes, a wonderful historical fantasy by author K. Hollan Van Zandt. It’s published by Harper Collins and available here. I was also lucky enough to interview Ms. Van Zandt, and that interview follows my review of the novel….
HBO’s Westworld has been chock-full of mysteries, but with two episodes to go, one thing is becoming quite clear: Westworld is taking place over multiple timelines, and after last week’s episode, there are at least four of them. The William & Logan Timeline I’ve written before about the two-timeline theory, which posits that the scenes…
As I do each year, I’m re-publishing my post on the very first Thanksgiving. Enjoy! Growing up, I never paid much attention to the origin of Thanksgiving. Other than what I may have learned in elementary school, all I recall knowing was that it was a feast between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans sometime after the Mayflower landed…
Time is scarce this week, but I wanted to offer a quick thought on last Sunday’s ginormous twist on Westworld. A lot of fans saw the twist coming, but I think the scene revealed a lot more, and once again it seems Westworld’s biggest clues remain in its dialogue. As predicted, Bernard is a host….
Episode 6 of HBO’s Westworld was just another outstanding chapter in what has become the most intelligent series on television. It also featured one of the show’s most fascinating scenes – with Maeve and Felix – set to a beautiful and haunting score. And it just might have given us the biggest clue to what,…
Westworld just keeps getting better and better. The writers are killing it, and it seems like every line of dialogue on this show holds a clue to its many mysteries. So, as we’ve reached the midpoint of season 1 (and I really hope HBO renews it for season 2), here are five thoughts I have…
Many believe the old Celtic festival of Samhain became the inspiration for Halloween. With that in mind, you have to love this quote about Samhain from the opening of Bernard Cornwell’s Enemy of God … “Today I have been thinking about the dead. “This is the last day of the old year. The bracken on the hill…