Author Archives: ubalstecha

[  Mood: Sick ][  Currently: Watching Tbitha’s Salon Takeover ]Urban fantasy has exploded all over the publishing landscape. In some cases it has gotten messy, with poorly-written potboilers masking as genre fiction. Luckily, Kitty and the Midnight Hour is not one of … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Happy ][  Currently: Watching My son colour ]Ful Title: I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President Oliver Watson is of a grade 7 boy whose mother thinks his is brilliant and special, … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Sleepy ][  Currently: Watching My son play and hoping he doesn’t trash the joint ]I remeber having Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh read to me when I was in grade 5 by the school librarian. She would take … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Sick ][  Currently: Watching House ]I am familiar with Julie Kenner’s Work and have discussed it here before. Today I finished the first book of her adult series. Imagine if Buffy got married and settled in surburbia. Then you would … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Sleepy ][  Currently: Watching My son sleep ]The Court of the Air is a brings us a very old plot with slightly new trappings. Two orphans are key to protecting the world from its destruction. They are hunted by the … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Happy ][  Currently: Watching My son play and trying to stop him from terrorizing the cat ]I picked this book up on a lark. I watch House and LOVED BlackAdder, so I am well aware that Hugh Laurie has many … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Amused ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]It is no secret that I have said some not so nice things about this series in the past, but yet I retun to it book after book, hoping that Hamilton will have … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Silly ][  Currently: Listening to My son object to having a toothbrush taken away. ]As a teacher, I have read a lot of dreck. Much of it seems to come from the teen romance genre. It pretty much sucks. Trust … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Fed Up WIth Life ][ Currently: Editing a podcast while my son plays. ]As the author of the Uglies series, Scott Westerfield is a YA publishing superstar. His books have sold millions of copies, an justifiably so. His Uglies series … Continue reading →

[  Mood: Hypnotized ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]As I have said before, my grandmother had a name for work like Evanovich’s; toothache books. They aren’t going change your life or even make you think too deeply, but you will chuckle … Continue reading →