Beth Fish Reads

I've reached that point where cabin fever is starting to set in. The sleet or ice or cold or snow has kept me cooped up inside and mad...

Imagine you lived in Paris in in the 1780s, where smallpox is taking its toll, Marie Anoinette and Louis XVI are basking in luxury, and th...

Yes, I'm a day early, but I'm already looking forward to my July reading list. Although I don't read every one of the many genr...

This has been an interesting week, to say the least: work deadlines, family issues, and a snow storm were at the top of my personal headl...

I've been doing a lot of reading and listening this summer, but not much review writing. Here are three books I can recommend. The Cri...

Mark Thompkins's The Last Days of Magic starts with the premise that the Vatican has hidden at least some of the ancient sages' wri...

One of my favorite reading indulgences is fantasy and speculative fiction (though not science fiction). Here are three recommendations--ea...

What if you were given the chance to study the mysteries of the world? Would you be satisfied by the quest for knowledge or would you also...

Over the next few days I'm going to be talking about books I learned about at this year's Book Expo America (BEA). I'll have a...

Last summer, everyone was all a-buzz about the first volume in a new fantasy series by Erika Johansen. I had every good intention to either ...

When my niece was reading middle grade books, she introduced me to D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series, which follows the adventures of fou...

The much-hyped The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon is a difficult book to summarize because there is so much going on in this first entry...

What if turn-of-the-last-century New York was not what you think it was? Sure you'd find eastern European immigrants fresh off the boa...

I finished the final two books in John Marsden's The Ellie Chronicles last week. This short double review assumes you've read the ...

The Book: Last week I listened to the first book in the sequel to John Marsden's Tomorrow series. While I Live starts the Ellie Chron...

As an old man looks through a recent shipment of magazines for his Los Angeles antiques store, he spots a 1900 newspaper clipping with a pho...