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Music For Your Monday: Valiant Hearts
Posted on March 31, 2025 Posted by Athena Scalzi 1 Comment
There’s a band I really like that I think more people should know about, and it’s called Valiant Hearts. It’s just two guys, Igor Serokvasha for the instrumentals and Tom Byrne for the vocals. These two guys have made some of my favorite songs of all time, all of which are off their album from 2019 called “Odyssey.” And I’m going to share them with you!
Not only are the lyrics and vocals stellar, but I absolutely love the drums in all of these songs, as well. Their lyrics are so whimsical and full of magic and wonder, talking about the cosmos and eternity, I really feel like I get lost in their music sometimes. Also, I love this album cover. I would totally get it as a tattoo.
This is without a doubt the one I listen to most often:
And this is the first song I ever heard by them:
But I also really love this one:
And I think you should listen to this one, as well:
You can also check them out on Spotify, too! While the whole album is really good, these are just my most favorite of their songs.
The singer also sings for another band called Galleons, and their song “DeLorean” is seriously awesome:
So, there you have it! Some lovely music to get you through the rest of this week. I hope you enjoy, let me know your thoughts in comments, and have a great day!
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Sunday, March 30, 2025
What I Read in March
I know there is still one more day left in March but I am pretty confident I won't be finishing any new books between now and then so here's what I've read for the month! I'm pretty happy with the results from a quantity perspective because I'm still knee deep in publicity for a couple of books I'm working with and that usually whittles away at the free time I have... and those that I did read were mostly advanced review copies.
So let's see what I spent my time with this month....
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Give me more epic wild west fiction with a dash of magical realism please! This is becoming my new favorite genre, you guys.
The Antidote takes place during the 1935 dust storm known as Black Sunday and in it, we meet a prairie witch named Antonina who makes a living absorbing people's memories. A local outcast, our witch is suddenly fearful of her life. The dust storm seems to have emptied her of the memories she's taken and the residents of Uz, Nebraska will be murderously upset when they come to make a withdrawal and find she's lost the things they are desperate to collect. But Dell, a thick skinned orphan girl who has an ear for the local town gossip, has decided to become Antonina's apprentice and devises a way for her create new memories for those who come knocking.
Meanwhile, there's a dirty sheriff doing dirty sheriff things; a visiting photographer whose pawn shop camera can only take photos of what once was or may come to be; and Dell's uncle, the one farmer whose land strangely seems to be thriving after the dust storm while everyone else's is suffering for it. Not to mention the odd scarecrow that's staked out in his field that seems to be untouched by the weird weather and a pregnant tabby cat with revenge on its mind.
It also addresses topics such as the unjust treatment of Native Americans, white privilege, and how, even back then, mother earth takes her revenge when we abuse her lands.
This book! It's a chunkster, and it takes a while for all of the storylines to fully pull together so you have to be patient with some of the back story stuff but oh my gosh it's so worth it and that ending. Ugh! My heart!
It's magical, and powerful, and really uniquely done!
The Lamb by Lucy Rose
The Lamb is the newest internet darling and I'm 100% behind it. It's an extremely impressive debut and very deserving of all of the love #bookstagram has been showering it with. Lucy Rose wastes no time jumping right into it - with an opening line like "On my fourth birthday, I plucked six severed fingers from the shower drain" you know you are going to be in for one heck of a tasty, bloody ride.
One thing is for sure. The Lamb has taught me that I don't have the right goodreads bookshelves created for the kinds of books I've been reading lately. I'm going to create some now post-haste because this needs to be shelved under messed-up-mothers, and people-as-monsters, and mmm-tasty, and get-on-my-plate, and tastes-like-human.
I adored the short chapters, which helped give the impression that the story was moving along faster than it actually was because c'mon let's be honest, it was a really slow burn knowing what we know up front and waiting for it to finally all come to a head. And dang, did it serve up a messed up ending or what?
Seriously, I love the moment that cannibalism is having in literary fiction and horror right now!
Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian
his is the sequel to Red Rabbit and it's every bit as fun and fantastic.
In Rose of Jericho, we are reunited with a few of our favorite characters: Rose, Sadie, and Rabbit, who take up residence in a haunted mansion when they travel to the town of Ascension to visit Rose's ill cousin; and Moses, who is a man on a mission after his wife is taken from him. In a moment of anger and grief, Moses does something he cannot undo and suddenly, the dead won't stay dead.
And no, not in a zombie sort of way. Just in a 'you get your brains bashed in and you lie there a minute and then you stand up and go about living your life as if it was just a little owie' sort of way.
But now Moses is dead set on righting his wrong and he knows he's going to need Sadie's help to do it. So he heads out to find his friends, and they are going to soon discover the roles they will need to play in order to restore order to the world.
The Red Rabbit witchiness we've grown to love is still in full effect, with some cool cosmic intervention stuff thrown into the mix, and even more gore and violence!
Can we make historical cosmic fantasy a thing now?!?!
The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T Wurth
I love the way Erika's writing shifts and changes with each new book, especially these last two from her, weaving in new levels of creepy supernatural horror while also pushing the Native American voice and experience forward.
Her female characters are flawed badass toughies that I can't help but wish I knew in rl. Well, ok maybe not in the case of this pa
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By: Sally Parlier
28 Mar 2025
I often think about orangutans when I’m driving to work. Although I’m sure I first saw this anecdote on Twitter, I’ll give you a real citation: Jacobus Bontius, a physician with the Dutch East India Company, wrote in 1658 that the Malays believed the apes had the ability to speak but chose not to, “lest they be compelled to labor.” [1] Bontius was incredulous, but the orangutans are onto something given the resonance of that quote centuries later amongst doomscrollers. For his part, José Maria de Eça de Queirós muses at the end of his Adam and Eve in Paradise—when Adam and Eve become “irremediably human” and “will progress with such speed and impetus towards the perfection of the Body and the glory of the Mind”—on whether the orangutan, who “lingers idly on the soft moss, listening to the limpid songs of the birds, savoring the rays of sunlight,” is worthier of admiration than humans, when one considers all the pitfalls of God’s gifts granted the latter through evolution (pp.
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Review: Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Review: Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis
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OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Beth Revis grew up in the Appalachian Mountains with a cemetery in her backyard, which is probably why she prefers her stories to be dark and full of twists. She’s the New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe trilogy, which has been translated into more than 20 languages. Beth lives in a house full of boys—her husband, son, and two massive dogs—and she forces them all to watch reruns of Firefly and Doctor Who. Visit her at bethrevis.com.
FORMAT/INFO: Last Chance to Save the World will be published on April 8th, 2025 from DAW Books. It is 133 pages and available in hardcover and ebook formats.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: It's a race against time as con artist Ada pulls off her most daring escapade yet. The target: the launching facility of a fleet of nanodrones during one of the most publicized (and secured) events in the galaxy. The mission: upload a code that will delete the secret planned obsolescence code in the nanobots planted by the company that built them, ensuring the bots fulfill their mission to clean the environmental damage on Earth. Ada's convinced government agent Rian to help her, but can she count on him not to betray her at the last minute?
Last Chance to Save the World is a fun and frenetic finale, even if it does lose a bit of the chemistry between its leads along the way. While all the books in this novella series revolve around individual capers, they've all been part of one overarching arc that we see play out in this last adventure. Once again, we're treated to the unreliable narrator of Ada, who doesn't always tell the reader everything that's going on. Is everything going according to her plan? Only Ada knows until the final chapter plays out.
I do love seeing a well-executed plan, and there's plenty of that here. Seeds planted in previous books blossom into fruition for the finale and there's always one more ace up Ada's sleeve. It's a slick Hollywood heist film ending where the real bad guys get their just desserts.
But I also love seeing evenly matched opponents in these kinds of stories, and that's where Last Chance to Save the World fell a bit flat. In the first book, Rian was a worthy foil to Ada, with his own counter-moves that she had to outfox. Here, he's little more than helpless eye-candy. Sure, we're teased that he has a plan of his own, but he never surprises Ada or has the upper hand. She's always one step ahead and we know it, which takes away the chemistry between the two characters. The heat in the romance came from the danger of knowing that Rian COULD outsmart Ada if she's not careful, and that's just not showcased here.
CONCLUSION: From start to finish, the Chaotic Orbits novellas are a rollicking fun time that will leave you grinning. Now that the trilogy is complete, readers can watch Ada's plans unfold from start to finish in just a few sittings. I will always be a fan of Ada's chaotic energy, her constant shifting of conversational topics and goals designed to put her opponents on their back feet. If you're looking for a quick and easy entertaining adventure, these are just the reading snack to bite into.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
CLIVE CUSSLER - THE SEA WOLVES
CLIVE CUSSLER – THE
SEA WOLVES
By Jack Du Brul
Putnam Books
385 pgs
Of all the adventure
pulp series the late Clive Cussler created, our favorite remains the Isaac Bell
stories. Oh, we totally appreciated the Dirk Pitt tales. It’s always been our
believe that they were the first in a resurgence of American pulp fiction. Still,
the turn of the century setting established for professional Van Dorn Detective
Bell appeals to our love of history. Cussler only ever penned the first Isaac
Bell book, “The Chase.” The next eight were written by Justin Scott and he did
a magnificent job with them. Now the baton has been handed off to Jack Du Brul,
another “Cussler” writer. “The Sea Wolves” is his third Isaac Bell outing;
making it the twelfth in the series.
As the drama begins,
World War One is ravaging Europe, but President Woodrow Wilson is determined to
keep the United States neutral. Still, he’s willing to aid our cousins, the
British, with much needed war armament. Learning this, the German set about targeting
these ships with their U-Boats patrolling the North Atlantic. Their retaliation
is cautionary in that they only hunt British ships avoiding those flying the US
Flag. Whereas their success rate of discovering and sinking those specific
ships is uncanny. Enough so that a young Navy Officer, Joe Marchetti, suspects
a German spy ring to be operating on the docks of New York harbor and
responsible for identifying those ships to the German submarines.
Marchetti seeks out
Bell’s help in not only finding the spies but determining exactly how they are
getting their messages to the submarines. Once again, Du Brul narrates a
suspenseful, fact moving thriller; at the same time capturing the feel of the
period and the events that tragically led to America’s entry into the war. It’s
a terrific read and highly recommended.
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What differentiates The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema is author Nikolas Schreck used to practice the Black Arts. That granted the original 2001 edition a seal of credibility, but this new, considerable update — courtesy of Headpress — allows him to cover dozens of titles that didn’t exist, like Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, in a hilarious review that alone is worth the price of purchase. In his intro, Schreck asks, “Who the hell is the Devil anyway?” then answers with a thorough history lesson spanning the life of cinema. Yes, horror films abound, but Satan pops up in costumed dramas, British comedies, kiddie matinees, mondo docs, animation, pornography and even an “all-Negro musical” from Vincente Minnelli. From Kenneth Anger to Irwin Allen, Ingmar Bergman to Ed Wood, our writer proves to be the authority of the evil one’s vast filmography. Surrender!
Another year means another McFarland & Company publication from Roberto Curti. As prolific as he is, his subject this time makes him look lazy by comparison: cult icon Jess Franco. Co-authored by Francesco Cesari, The Films of Jesus Franco, 1953-1966 examines the works of the Spanish director from his start — his pre-OB/GYN cinema, one might say. As is Curti’s wont, each pic — from puffery like Attack of the Robots to artistic triumphs like The Diabolical Dr. Z — reliably devotes coverage so in-depth, they may as well be a submersible. What really makes this Jesús text special is how heavily it goes into Franco films we’ll never see, from his university short Theory of Sunrise, a debut “ignored” by other Franco texts, to Treasure Island, an abandoned ’64 adaptation/collaboration with Orson Welles. One Yank’s quibble: The movies are listed in Spanish, so unless you know your Red Lips from your Labios rojos, keep the index bookmarked.
I thought my own book did a decent job of mining some obscurities … then along comes Lowest Common Denominator: The Amateurish Writings of a Failed Film Critic to show everybody up on that front. Written by David John Koenig, aka “A Fiend on Film,” the self-published paperback might review as many movies I’ve never heard of as it has pages! That’s because Koenig’s tastes lean toward the Asian, underground, microindie and black-and-white crime pics as old as my grandparents. Needless to say, my Tubi list grew exponentially as I read. And read. And read! From A to Z, I didn’t miss a word and, as a result, got exposed to a whole new world.
When a movie gains a fervent, coast-to-coast cult, multiple books on it inevitably follow. That’s certainly the case with Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. I reviewed two of them a decade ago, and now it’s time to add a third with BearManor Media’s release of Accidental Genius: An Oral History of The Room. Think the world doesn’t need another? Think again. Andrew J. Rausch, whose work I love, goes deeper on the topic than any medium before him. With dozens of people weighing in, his task as curator and craftsman couldn’t have been easy, but as a read, it sure is. The anecdotes are as crazy as a Room viewer could hope for, from using Greg Sestero’s facial hair as a guide for editing the nonsensical scenes into something watchable to Wiseau’s desire to perform his sex scenes unsimulated. On purpose, Accidental’s a lot of fun, as entertaining as it is thorough — enough to make you want to exclaim in joy, “Hai, doggy!”
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As someone whose film knowledge began on watching movies on UHF channels and read the Sunday paper’s TV listings supplement in full, Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television, 1929-1981 stirred nostalgia in this American. It’s a shame the Edinburgh University Press title costs such a pretty penny, because I suspect like minds would find it catnippy, too. Leslie Halliwell (he of the Halliwell’s Film Guide) emerges as a hidden hero as Sheldon Hall looks back at when the tube saw
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The Wide World of Photography: Past, Present and Future
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Photography: Youngest Son of the Visual Arts
Of all the major artistic media, only photography appeared relatively late in the course of human history.
While people have been writing, painting, and composing music for thousands of years, they have only been taking photographs since 1826. In that year, French scientist Joseph Niépce snapped the world’s first photo (entitled ‘View from the Window at Le Gras’) at his country estate.
This website is created and run by photography enthusiasts for photography enthusiasts. Conveniently broken up into easily digestible sections, it offers a range of written and visual material on the exciting world of photography.
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a memorial by Steven H Silver
Science fiction fans have always had a respect and understanding for the history of the genre. Unfortunately, science fiction has achieved such an age that each year sees our ranks diminished. Deaths in 2015 included Alice K. Turner, Leonard Nimoy, Tanith Lee, Jon Arfstrom, George Clayton Johnson, Suzette Haden Elgin, Sir Terry Pratchett, Christopher Lee and Peter Dickinson.
The Blood Red City by Justin Richards
reviewed by Nathan Brazil
This is the second novel in the author’s Never War sequence, and as might be expected, picks up almost where the first book ended. Ambitiously, the action aliens and Nazis sprawl across the USA, Germany, the Greek island of Crete, occupied France, Stalin’s Russia, and good old Blighty. Once again it’s a hell-for-leather scramble between those loyal to the Third Reich or the Allies, with the alien Vril following their own agenda and playing both sides against the middle.
By Force of Arms by William C. Dietz
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
In the latest volume in the Legion of the Damned series, Booly comes back from the brink of what could have been disgrace as a hero to his men who risked their lives for freedom. Now Naa Commandos are set to protect him, yet assassins come to try and take over their encampment. The author fleshes out the characters and their lives, their doubts, loves and hopes. Booly’s rescue mission to get back Maylo gives us an idea of what kind of man he is, and what others think about him.
The Dark Arts of Blood by Freda Warrington
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
This story is separated into two parts with several smaller chapters that create an epic feel about it. These vampires seem more sophisticated than, say, the ones from a Stephen King novel. Their settings are bourgeois in their development and the characters never lose their edge. While the previous three novels have set the scene and developed the characters, this, the latest in the series, has a twist in the tale of which Sandra is very fond ever since reading Roald Dahl’s deliciously disturbing stories.
Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
Every day the men of Red Shield have to face the Collective as they need to keep the Kingdom enemy free in Luitox. Here while they play the waiting game for their enemy to approach, we hear the war from several viewpoints during the story and many of the accounts aren’t what the Kingdom’s rulers might expect. The men are tired, hurt, stressed-out and at times bored out of their brains, and who can blame them? Their enemy is sneaky, dangerous and worthy of being feared as they never show themselves if they can help it, and they aren’t the sort of enemy who fights en masse.
The Oversight by Charlie Fletcher
reviewed by Nathan Brazil
This is the tale the last Hand; five people with supra-natural abilities, keeping the Law and Lore in an alternate Dickensian London. The Oversight was established to police and maintain the borders between the world of men and the darkly magical Sluagh. For many years an uneasy balance was achieved, mostly by mutual adherence to the rules that govern what is permitted from both sides. Then came the Disaster.
A Conversation With Rick Riordan
An interview with Steven H Silver
On merging Greek and Egyptian mythology:
” It wasn’t too difficult [to merge Greek and Egyptian mythology] because historically the Greeks and the Egyptians were
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