L. D. Christianson

This is my first Read Christie 2025 review! Read Christie 2025 is a challenge from Agatha Christie Ltd. That assigns a Christie book to...

A note before I get into the meat of the post: Several of my subscribers reported not receiving a notification about last week's post,...

This is not my family. It's a free stock photo, but it works with the theme. “In my day, we had to walk miles in the snow to school...”...

As you may have noticed if you get my notifications, this post was not published at my usual time. As an online college student, my...

One of the things that sparked my love for the past was 1960s sitcoms. For years, I unwound before bedtime by watching an episode with my...

I suppose, technically, watching Star Wars with my dad was my first experience with sci-fi. Or maybe it was my Dora and the Purple Planet...

photo credit: NBC Last week, I looked at a book that, while it was enjoyable, was too different from other mysteries to fit my...

Well, this is ironic. In last week’s post, I defended Deep Space Nine  as “real” Star Trek  when many other reviewers didn’t see it that...

The large photo book is The Heart of Australia by Peter Jarver. When I was a kid, I had a video game called “Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.”...

This week’s topic grew out of my most recent read, Margery Allingham’s The Late Pig . It’s a short book, my copy is just shy of 140...

It was the best of episodes, it was the worst of episodes. I’m referring, of course, to the famous, infamous, uncreatively titled episode...

Who doesn’t love the Peanuts gang? Sure, not everyone is a dyed-in-the-wool fan, but I’d be shocked if I met someone who had a strong...

Intro & Recap In last week’s post, I spent a good bit of time looking at what an American hero is and why they have faded in recent...

Introduction I’ve had this idea for a while, but always shied away as I don’t want this blog to be seen as political in any way, and I...

Some of you may have noticed I didn’t publish a post last week. My usual posting day fell right in the middle of a pretty bad spot of...

A man at my church once shared a story that went like this: a Sunday school teacher asked “what is grey, has a fluffy tail, and eats...

This blog might not exist if my mom hadn’t read to me every night from birth to teenagerhood. Maybe I would have still fallen in love...

The last review in the series & an update about technical difficulties.

We have made it to our penultimate Queen, Margery Allingham. I had not heard of Allingham, at least not that I remember, until watching...

A look at the subgenres of science fiction.