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Author Archives: Ian Stewart


Putting Things Together With Frankenstein

Reading Frankenstein has made me re-realize one of the things I best love about reading. That weird interconnectedness that happens between authors and books from different times that all gets centered inside you and wants to come rolling out on, like, you know a blog or something. I really haven’t felt that feeling in a [...]

The Scariest Books I’ve Read

I don’t read a lot of horror but I have read some. Stephen King? Not so scary. The scariest books I’ve read are few and likely different than yours. And I can’t even remember the titles of all of them. Ready? Here they are, presented in chronological order for me, that is, the order I [...]

I Think I Love The Octonauts

It’s hard not to like what looks like a cross between the X-men and The Backyardigans and is quite clearly made by someone who loves children and the things they love. But loving them? I haven’t even read the books.

I first ran across the Octonauts site on web design galleries, glanced at it, thought it [...]

Secret Projects

Surprisingly, there’s not a lot of bookishness happening ’round these parts lately. There are, however, secret projects. I have two secret projects on the go—plus, one that’s not so secret, that magazine I mentioned previously. Both involve the internet. Only one involves WordPress. One has everything to do with books. One, not so much. One [...]

The Three Kinds of Books for Kids

I’ve recently taken an interest in the classification of books for kids. I know, I’m strange and boring all at the same time. I don’t know how I do it. Anyway, it’s been on my mind and after trying to explain some of my ideas to my three-year old son I’ve come up with a [...]