Videos Featured Book Star Ratings Are Broken — Do This Instead Let's face it — the star rating system for books is a hot mess. In this video, I give you four big reasons why I don't use star ratings for books, followed by my own personal rating and reviewing system that you can adopt or adapt for yourself.
Books Featured Review: ALPHA by K. D. Marchesi ALPHA, the debut novel by K. D. Marchesi, has finally been unleashed, and Rian has a howlin' good time reading and reviewing it. So put your paws in the air 'cause this one gets a little wild!
Videos Featured Books & Bevvies - EXODUS: The Archimedes Engine Books and Bevvies is a Genre Blender quarterly series where Kris and Rian hold a mostly casual (though occasionally in-depth and overly critical) discussion about their chosen buddy read with their beverage of choice in hand.
Videos Overcoming 'Big Book Phobia' with Stephen King's The Stand What do you do when the next book on your TBR is 1,211 pages but you’re intimidated by big books? Rian talks about this conundrum and how he overcame it while reading The Stand by Stephen King.
Videos The King of Horror: Newbie vs Constant Reader Join Kris and Rian for a lively chat about Stephen King from the perspectives of a wide-eyed newbie and a Constant Reader with years of experience. They swap stories, share their favourites and TBRs, and suggest some underrated King gems.
Podcast Episodes Episode 27: Art and Morality in The Picture of Dorian Gray Rian reads Kris’s current favourite classic book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and the pair go on a meandering deep-dive discussion about its themes, which are fascinatingly prescient.
Articles Flowers for Algernon: Sometimes Books Are the Best Teachers There’s a science fiction thought experiment that's been bouncing around in my head for many years: if you could use a cable to connect your brain directly to someone else’s brain, to temporarily experience everything exactly as they experienced it, would that change the way you
Articles A Dose of Tropey Goodness from The Midnight Library I’ve just finished listening to The Midnight Library on audiobook, written by Matt Haig and narrated by Carey Mulligan. I won’t pretend I’m not still wiping a couple of stray tears from my eyes, despite the book possibly being the tropiest of tropey books that I’ve
