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‘The Undermining of Twyla and Frank’
The residents of Eternity, and the beauty of Tanria, return this July in The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen. We first encountered these two characters in Bannen’s first Tanrian novel,...
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A Novel Approach to Summer Reads
What makes a good summer read? If reading is something that you list as a hobby on any questionnaire, then you have probably asked yourself this question countless times. It’s not necessarily what...
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Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls (Disney Edition)
We are always interested in a new game for family game night, and I am always interested in anything that comes with a Disney theme. So our whole family was excited to take a spin with a new...
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The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love
I have a passion for books set in slightly altered versions of our own. While I love the high fantasy of The Lord of the Rings, I adore the world bending of A Discovery of Witches and Emily Wilde. In...
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‘Big in Sweden’: Love for Self and Sweden
In 2021, Author Sally Franson participated in a Swedish reality show, Allt för Sverige, in which 10 American contestants with Swedish roots compete for a chance to meet their Swedish relatives. Franson...
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‘Netherford Hall’ by Natania Barron
When I was twelve years old, my English teacher took us to the library and told us to find a book or two that met a few requirements. It had to be something we hadn’t read before, and it had to be...
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The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
I have been meaning to read Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy for some time, it is part of my ever expanding TBR list. It has probably moved up a couple of levels now that I have read his big release...
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Notes From a Decade of Back-to-School Weeks
This is my eleventh year with a child starting school, and things have changed a lot since that first year. I still take the morning off work to see them onto the bus, and we still have an early night...
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The Bluey BoxLunch Collaboration of Our Dreams
If you are a Geek Parent yourself, you’d be hard pressed not to have an affinity with this generation’s sage blue dog. Bluey has been a family favorite of ours since it first hit our screens in 2020. I...
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‘Love, Magic, and Betrayal’ From Olivie Blake
It is Autumn in New England. It is Autumn all over the country, but in New England we feel these things rather keenly. There are mums and pumpkins on all the front steps. There are apples in bags in...
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Little Golden Books’‘Diwali: A Festival of Lights’
I lived in England until I was 22, when I married an American despite all warnings about portion size and heavy winters. My entire childhood was spent in the town of Walsall in the heart of the West...
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Off Line Story Telling with StoryPhones
With three kids in the house for over a decade now, we are always looking for engaging and exciting entertainment options. Screens being ubiquitous in every area of their lives, it’s always nice to...
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Review: ‘The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door’ by H. G. Parry
I have always loved a fairy story. From the Flower Fairies I played with in my childhood, to the Bat Boys that occupy my middle age novels, something about the otherness of the fairy world has long...
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GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Games
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the GeekHouse, everyone was playing their favorite game. It will be a little while before the 2024 GeekDad Game of the Year is announced so, in the...
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The Women of Legend: Queen of Fury
King Arthur is cast to a supporting role in the Queens of Fate series from Natania Barron, the second installment of which was released on December 3rd. Where the first installment, Queen of None took...
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Mother of Rome by Lauren Bear
Lauren Bear debuted her first novel, Medusa’s Sisters, in 2023, a tale of Greek Mythology focusing on the sisters of Medusa and their relationship to the world and gods around them. It was evocative,...
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The Magic of The Rainfall Market
I did not have an introduction to Korean folklore on my 2025 Bingo list, but I am glad I got to check that box off. In The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang, we join young Serin on her journey through...
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Tartufo: A Fungi Lover’s Dream by Kira Jane Buxton
In a small Italian village, but not the one you are thinking of, there is a restaurant. It’s not the one you are thinking of. This one is closed, that one is one town over. There is also a Truffle...
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Discovering the Shadow Realm with Sylvia Mercedes
For anyone who ever fell in love with the Beast, and was disappointed when the curse was broken and blondie appeared, this series from Sylvia Mercedes will scratch all those beastly itches and then...
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The Labyrinth of Souls by Leslie Vedder
When I was young I devoured books like Mallory Towers and The Naughtiest Schoolgirl by Enid Blyton. Though I had no desire to go there myself, I loved reading about kids at boarding school. The...
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