Tannenbaum The lights are laced through the branches of the Christmas tree – the same lights that have adorned our tree for twenty Christmases past. The bulbs are old, thick; they do not sparkle so much as glow deep colors over the evergreen needles. A plastic crown tilts on the reaching topmost branch, a token…
Month: December 2015
(Christmas) Movie Review: Rise of the Guardians
Jack Frost was nimble, Jack Frost was quick; Jack Frost froze the world with his stick. Yes, I know: It’s a mixing of disparate bits of culture and childhood lore, kind of catchy and not quite right. And in that, it’s like Rise of the Guardians. Rise of the Guardians was released into theaters around…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Shock of Night
Willet Dura has survived a great deal – war, years of pursuing criminals, and (most impressively) the Darkwater Forest. It all helps to explain his uncanny interest in death, but it doesn’t quite excuse it. As the king’s reeve, he is called to investigate murders in the royal city of Bunard; sometimes he arrives at…
CSFF Blog Tour: Bolt
Some time ago – I forget, exactly, how much, or even vaguely how much – the CSFF blog tour reviewed the entire Staff and Sword trilogy, written by Patrick W. Carr. Now Patrick Carr is back, and so are we. His new book is called The Shock of Night, and it is the beginning of…