The Stuff of Nightmares is an enjoyable romp and a perfect vacation read. James Lovegrove has once again done a capital job at providing Sherlock fans material to savor, and Holmes and Watson run true to Doyle form.

I was doing some spring cleaning in the attic the other day and quickly but happily got distracted by my old collection of comic strips/comic books. As I had had so much fun with my last Throwback Thursday post on computer games, I thought I'd take the opportunity to bring out some of my old favorites in the world of comics.

The Severed Streets is extremely well-drawn and full of skillfully crafted twists and turns. If you enjoy mysteries, put these books on your reading list. You won’t be disappointed.

Age of Shiva was such an enjoyable romp that I was sorely tempted to purchase the rest of James Lovegrove's Pantheon canon and go on a week-long reading spree.

Just a list of my favorite vintage games from the late 70s-early 80s. Yes, we did have computers back then.

I agree that Paul McCartney is not the complete Beatles package. But his live shows are the closest we can still get to experiencing the live Beatles phenomenon.

Many novels that have tried to straddle sci-fi and fantasy end up simultaneously irritating the hard-core sci-fi fans and discombobulating the fantasy lovers. The Revolutions does neither and is an intriguing blend of steampunk sci-fi/fantasy with dabbling in Victorian-era occult.

The very recent passing of Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez represents a loss of one the world’s most lyrical novelists. Although he is probably best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude, my personal favorite is Love in the Time of Cholera.

Despite being nearly 800 pages in length, The Goldfinch is an extremely quick and absorbing read. With this offering, Donna Tartt has firmly established herself as a truly phenomenal storyteller.

Episode 2 of Cosmos dealt with the always controversial subject of evolution. I thought the show provided a wonderful and very accessible overview of the subject, but at the end of the show my husband, who is not a scientist, was ready to hear more. Being ever the bookworm, my answer was, to him and anyone else who might feel the same way, read Jared Diamond’s The Third Chimpanzee.

The Ophelia Prophecy has a very good sense of pace and moves along smartly. The action is well-drawn and keeps the reader engaged. And our infatuates, Pax and Asha, are affable but endearingly flawed enough to create the requisite amatory tensions.

Three Princes paints a vivid and compelling image of how things might have been had Egypt not fallen to the Greeks and Assyrians. However, it suffers a bit from lack of focus and follow-through and ends up reading like a wandering series of partially unresolved short stories.

Anne Rice has just announced that she is writing the next book in the Vampire Chronicles, a sequel to Queen of the Damned, to be called Prince Lestat. We're completely thrilled by this as we feel that Lestat is far and away the sexiest vampire ever. As such, we thought we'd have a little light-hearted fun and list the Top 10 reasons why this is so.

The combination of these two minds, Benford’s Cal Tech-level astrophysics and Niven’s stunning Ringworld-style imagination, results in a series that is everything good science fiction should be: a plausible and even probable vision of the future.

The full message contained within On Such a Full Sea is not only the stark, wintery warnings of the dystopian genre, but the spring-like hope of how to find a better path.