“I went invisible for the first time on my twelfth birthday…” Inspired by the movie Flatliners (1990), the sixth book in the original Goosebumps series is a fun, spooky urban legend about a mysterious old mirror hidden away in the attic. It follows a boy named Max on his rainy…
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Star Wars Book Review: Rebel Dawn (1998) by A.C. Crispin
“Wait’ll I tell Chewie! The Millennium Falcon is mine! At last! A ship of our own!” (20). The triumphant, celebrated conclusion to the Han Solo Trilogy, A.C. Crispin’s Rebel Dawn is a truly impressive work that successfully manages to stitch together many unresolved plot threads lingering from the previous two…
Star Trek Book Review: Planet of Judgment (1977) by Joe Haldeman
“We’ll have to be rid of some of you….” Stardate: 6132.8 Unfortunately, despite being written by celebrated Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Joe Haldeman, Planet of Judgment is another fairly flimsy early Star Trek novel. It begins after a four-week detour running maneuvers and the crew are in high spirits. The…
1989 Pulitzer Prize Review: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
“Maggie and Ira Moran had to go to a funeral in Deer Lick, Pennsylvania.” Taking place over a single day in the life of Maggie and her husband Ira Moran, Anne Tyler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Breathing Lessons is a bittersweet, charming, at times hilarious, character study of a middle-aged couple,…