Wisdom of Bookmonkey

Years ago I picked up the novel Magic by William Goldman for two simple reasons: 1) I'm a big fan of his films ( Butch Cassidy & ...

So last week I went out with the family to see Jordan Charles Vogt-Roberts Kong: Skull Island , which turned out to be a pretty great deci...

Christian Cameron's Salamis , the fifth in his Long War series (as well as the next-to-last) follows Arimnestos of Plataea through the...

So here we are, the final Hugh Jackman as Wolverine film, and man was it good! Director James Mangold's Logan  takes place in a near...

China Mieville's third novel set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, Iron Council really should have worked for me, as it mixed his wor...

Here was everything I knew about Norse Mythology last month in a nutshell. You've got Thor and Loki and Ordin... (mostly gleaned fr...

After spending the last few months watching all sorts of Oscar-nominated films, it's finally time to get back into my regular viewing ...