by runestone admin | Apr 15, 2026
Saad Omar Khan’s debut novel Drinking the Ocean is a breathtaking exploration of what it means to love, to grapple with heartbreak, and to continue to love despite it all. Drinking the Ocean follows Murad, a young man who cannot seem to forget Sofi, the woman he once...
by runestone admin | Apr 13, 2026
Mortar, Christopher Shipman’s upcoming poetry collection, invites us to sit alongside him as he grapples with the trauma that haunts his family after the murder of his grandmother. Mortar is the cement-like mixture that lays between bricks in construction. As...
by runestone admin | Dec 19, 2025
“Six people, but a thousand ways this insane plan could go wrong.” Young Adult, Fantasy, and Science Fiction novels are rising in both readership and authorship, myself included. As an ardent reader, when I have time outside of college, I love to enjoy the increasing...
by runestone admin | Dec 17, 2025
Review: Small Town Horror by Ronald MalfiPage Count: 392Price: $17.99 (paperback), $27.99 (hardcover)ISBN: 9781803365657Publisher: Titan Books Ronald Malfi weaves a brilliant web of guilt, falsehoods, buried (or drowned) truths and, of course, ghosts and witchcraft in...
by runestone admin | Dec 15, 2025
2024, Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press288 pp., paperback $14, eBook $12ISBN: 9781773068893TW: homophobia and domestic abuse “Life isn’t an RPG, you giant dork.” “I know.” He pulls another volume off the shelf and reads the back cover, then pauses. “But can you...
by runestone admin | Dec 12, 2025
Tannery Bay by Steven Dunn and Katie Jean ShinkleThe University of Alabama Press, 2024199 pages, $18.47ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-205-5 Tannery Bay by Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle was an odd read (which I mean in a complimentary sense). Though it is not a debut novel...
