Katie Who Can Read

An anti-immigrant, fear-mongering demagogue runs for President of the United States  - and wins.   It can't happen here.  Right? ...

Find out more about Sci Fi Month here. I admit it, I bought this book without any knowledge of what it was about because the cover wa...

While looking through a box of old books from my childhood, I found a dystopian YA novel written long before dystopian YA Novels were A T...

After spending over a month reading The Stand and not a lot else, I finally finished it at the weekend. It's been a wild ride. Fictiona...

This update is rather belated as I spent a week somewhat appropriately struck down with the flu. I never get flu - I think this is the secon...

Spoiler alert: This post goes into a lot more detail than a general review. My literature-brain is at work. Book one of The Stand s...

After finishing reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell at the beginning of March, you'd think I'd whizz through a load of the short...

This review is very long overdue, so here are the links to the story so far: Season One Season Two Season Three Season Four Warning: ...

Spoilers, of course. It would be impossible to discuss this show without them. Season three of Fringe ended with a nice note of happily...

Melanie is a very unusual child. The only home she's ever known is a military base, where she is taken to her classrooms each day str...

When I watched the first Hunger Games movie, although I enjoyed it, my enjoyment was marred by having just reread the book, and knowing...

In the last year or so, I've read a lot of rave reviews of Veronica Roth's teen dystopian novel Divergent, so when I found a copy...

Picture a world where superheroes are real. Really picture it. Pretty cool, huh? Now really think about it. A world where anyone can put ...

Remember, Remember, the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. V f...