If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting!  The other night I attended a Christmas dinner for fourteen people, only a handful of whom actually knew each other. We all know how these events play out: awkward introductions where people try to define...

The Percy Jackson series appears in our list of young adult fiction drawing on Greek mythology I'll be the first to admit that the Percy Jackson novels are somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me. One can sum up this pleasure simply by linking it with the appropriate drink to have on hand when reading it: some books go well with a red wine, others with a rich...

If I were author Rick Riordan, I'd not bother with my usual little introductory paragraph about the book I'm about to review. Rather, I'd leap right into the fray, and the page would be awash with exploding monsters and long lost siblings. But given that I'm a mild-mannered sort, I'll hold off for a bit before giving you the wham-bam-shazam plot...

Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series has become big news of late, what with the release of the tie-in film and the reissuing of the books with some added bling to their covers. My goodness, that YA section has more sparkle going on than a certain love-struck vampire'but I digress. Sea of Monsters is the second in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, which,...