SF/F: All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen

Lev AC Rosen’s debut is smart, thoughtful and even oddly timely. An intelligent, muscular work of steampunk with a strong central female character and a full load of steam. A great balance and a perfect mix.Violet Adams is a genius. A brilliant inventor and maven of all things mechanical, she wants nothing more than to attend London’s prestigious Illyria College, a scientific academy. But since

Cookbooks: 750 Best Appetizers by Judith Finlayson and Jordan Wagman

When it comes to 750 Best Appetizers (Robert Rose) my biggest complaint is a pretty high class one: there’s simply too much. I know that sounds silly, possibly even foolish, but 750 is almost encyclopedic. Almost. Not quite enough for that. Just enough to leave you feeling, every time you sit down with the book, that you just don’t know where to start.At least, that was my reaction. For every

Mapping the Path to a Literary Life

Though we’ve seen a lot of new technology aimed at booklovers over the last few years, perhaps nothing is likely to touch us in our reading life as acutely as the Book Drum World Map, an addictive site/technology that may well change the way we experience books and perhaps even the way we read them.Billed as “the perfect companion to the books we love, bringing them to life with immersive