J. A. Keener

A friend of mine just published their first book! First and foremost, let’s get this out of the way: it’s good. Got it? Great! Of Gallantry and Magic Written by…

I’ve been meaning to post this review for a while, but this book was one I needed some perspective on. It isn’t often that I will read a book, not…

The past four or five months have been crazy. I try very hard not to put politics into my blog nor into my book reviews, but the recent election was…

Long time, no book review. Sadly, no pictures today as my wife is upstairs sleeping and the book in question is in the bedroom. I’m afraid that if I don’t…

I consider myself a fan of Star Wars. I’m not rabid (I’ve had my shots, I swear!) and I enjoyed the expanding fiction that surrounded the mythology of the Jedi.…

Okay, I confess. I finished this book back in February, but there hasn’t been much time for reading or reviewing since then, but this one deserves to be discussed. I…

I realized this morning that I haven’t posted a new book review in a long time. This whole fatherhood thing is time consuming! Who would have thought? Before I get…

I have long since finished my August “To-Read” list, and now I’m trying to work my way through the reviews. Now that we have a newborn in the house, I…

Ready Player One, written by Ernest Cline and published in 2011 by Broadway Books, is aptly described as “Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.” Cline’s debut novel is a New York…

I finally got around to reading the two-novella, limited edition hardcover I picked up at Minicon 50 back in March. It’s weird, because I’m such a Brandon Sanderson fan, that…