"Book Reviews" Blogs & Blog Posts

Eye patches, peg legs, black flags, scurvy, and parasitical relationships to nation-states and colonial empires; in a word, thieves. These ideas are associated with pirates and piracy in the Caribbean, the Atlantic, or the Coasts of Africa. Relying o...

The author/artist in action at our float cabin.This month I'm reviewing a new book by my favourite local author, Yvonne Maximchuk. I've read all her non-fiction books about the people and places near her off-grid home in Echo Bay on Gilford Island in...

Numerous best-sellers and underrated books are asking to be made into movies. Therefore, if you have some free time, read these works of art and cross your fingers with us that they will be adapted. The One Woman by Laura May Read the story of the ri...

Numb To This is the debut graphic novel from writer/illustrator Kindra Neely. Back in 2015, Neely was a student at Umpqua Community College in Oregon — and she was there on campus the day that a gunman killed eight students and one professor and in...

Mushrooms are fascinating. Yeah, we've all seen Fantastic Fungi and loved it, and some of us have taken a deeper dive with Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life. Some of us have tripped on them, and some of us just like to eat the edible varieties becaus...

Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult is a new book from Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger that describes itself as "a celebration of magical women and nonbinary people in American history, from Salem to WitchTok." Like the authors' pr...

I love folklore, so naturally, I also love cryptids, since they're basically the scary story versions of modern folklore. Which is precisely what I enjoyed about The United States of Cryptids, a new book from author JW Ocker. Ocker is an experienced...