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Information you should know: Be prepared is a Graphic Novel aimed for Upper Elementary and Middle School. Be Prepared is a semi auto-biographical telling of the Author’s (Vera) time at a Russian summer camp. It follows themes of not fitting in both in American and Russian Immigrant culture. It spans a month of time as…
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Information you should know: The legend of Gravity is a picture book for young children. It is about a basketball team and was a nominee for the Bluebonnet reading award. The Legend of Gravity is a tall tale that the author is remembering about a player he played with as a child named Gravity. Gravity…
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Information you should know: Broken is a book aimed at young children. It is a picture book and has won the Texas 2×2 award in 2026. Broken is a story about Mei Mei breaking her grandmother’s cup. In the story she is scared and wishes to hide. Later when her grandmother finds out it is…
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Information you should know: Star Child is a book aimed at upper elementary. It is a Biography and a collection of poetry. Star Child covers the life of Octavia Estelle Butler, a famous black author who wrote about science fiction. She is often thought of as the pioneer of the astrofuturism movement thanks to her…
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Information you should know: On the Wings of La Noche is a book aimed at Middle Schoolers, it is classified as Young Adult Fantasy, and Paranormal Romance. It is also the winner of the Pura Belpre Author Awards in 2026. On the Wings of La Noche follows the main protagonist Noche, a young psychopomp taking…
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Post Dungeon Crawler Carl I’ve been looking for some new things to read. Post Wandering Inn I’m still in a mindset that isn’t allowing me to read anything that I might consider slop. I’ve completely dropped Manga as something I read and have started many a webnovel and dropped it after one chapter. At the…
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I caught up on Dungeon Crawler Carl last week. I meant to write out my thoughts but I’ve already failed on my personal goal of writing something every week. But hey just because I feel down doesn’t mean I should give up so here’s my article about the series. To catch up I read the…
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This week I’ve been reading the LitRPG Dungeon Crawler Carl. If you’re unfamiliar a LitRPG stands for literature role playing game and includes elements of gaming as part of the premise. Dungeon Crawler Carl has, as to my current knowledge, been held up as one of the better LitRPGs and is recommended by both the…
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At this point it’s been over a month since I last wrote something on my website. I’d like to say it’s because of the holidays and I’ve been too busy to make something. Or that it was because I was working on future bigger projects for the website or maybe some huge DND module. I’d…
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“We have a proud history of self-sacrifice. But it is easy, in these bleak times, to find one among us who is eager to die for any cause” So says Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis on the card Children of Korlis. The following decktech describes what in my minds is the prototypical style of deck I…