The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today sees the release of Chapter 6: The Cowardly Lion. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Category Archives: Books
Novel Review: The Girls
Last year’s pop-thriller was Paula Hawkins’ intriguing mystery, The Girl on the Train; they just released the movie adaptation. This year, the bestseller sort-of-a-thriller presents a fictional version of the Manson killings. Since there’s no mystery about the killers’ identities, Emma Cline’s The Girls examines what might make an upper-middle-class teen join a madman’s cult.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Chapter 5: The Rescue of the Tin Woodman (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today sees the release of Chapter 5: The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Chapter 4: The Road Through the Forest (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today sees the release of Chapter 4: The Road Through the Forest. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Chapter 3: How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today sees the release of Chapter 3: How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Chapter 2: The Council with the Munchkins (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today sees the release of Chapter 2: The Council with the Munchkins. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Chapter 1: The Cyclone (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
Today sees the launch of our newest podcast: Bedtime in the Public Domain. In this series, I’ll be reading bedtime stories. Each weekday, I release a chapter or short story until the current publication is complete. Then, there will be an audiobook release with all of the chapters in a single file. After a short break, I’ll return with the next book. All books will be accessed via Project Gutenberg to ensure that they are legal to read and share. First up: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Today sees the release of Chapter 1: The Cyclone. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Novel Review: The Fifth Season
When the world ends three weeks later, it happens on the most beautiful day Syenite has even seen. The sky is clear for miles, save for the occasional drift of cloud. The sea is calm, and even the omnipresent wind is warm and humid for once, instead of cool and scouring.
We’re a bit late to the party, but we’re finally reviewing N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo and New York Times Notable- winning fantasy.
Novel Review: Uprooted
This year’s Nebula for Best Novel (and Hugo nominee) went to Naomi Novik’s faerie tale about a wizard’s apprentice and an evil forest.
The novel succeeds at being what you expect from that description, and not being what you expect at all.
Novel Review: Company Town
“You can’t see the future that’s coming.”(239)
Madeline Ashby’s most accessible novel to date sends a young, unaugmented security agent on an increasingly bizarre mission in a town built on a Maritime oil rig.