Girls in Capes Recommends: March 2021 Fiction Releases
We're relaunching in 2021 with a new monthly fiction release feature! Each month, we'll recommend five upcoming releases across speculative fiction to add to your TBR pile, with a mix of adult and YA books you should have on your radar. For March 2021, Girls in Capes...
The Best Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club Picks 2014-2019
This year, while working on setting up the first few book clubs of the new decade, it occurred to me that the Girls in Capes book club at Main Point Books has been running for six years. Six (!) whole years. A lot has changed since we first launched in January 2014 at...
Book Club: Seafire by Natalie C. Parker
Join us for our March book club discussion of Seafire by Natalie C. Parker. This novel is a young adult science fiction title set aboard a pirate ship crewed entirely by women who find their mission compromised when they discover a teenage boy who has apparently...
Event Recap: The Book of Gems launch party at A Novel Idea in Philadelphia
A recap from the launch party for Fran Wilde’s novella The Book of Gems on June 20, 2023 at A Novel Idea in Philadelphia.
Book Club: Boys Run the Riot, Vol. 1
Join us at 4 p.m. on July 15 for our in-person discussion of BOYS RUN THE RIOT, VOL. 1 by Keito Gaku at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA.
Book Club: Station Eternity
Join us at 4 p.m. on June 17 for our in-person discussion of Mur Lafferty’s STATION ETERNITY at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA.
The Future Is Alive and It’s Beautiful and Female
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Amalgam Book Club: Bingo Love
We will discuss the graphic novel Bingo Love by Tee Franklin. From the publisher: When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had...
Childhood Nostalgia Frights
As great and as wonderful children’s shows and movies are, they can have some pretty intense and creepy moments. Even though I’m an adult, there are some moments from recent kids shows that make me go “well that’s messed up” (Adventure Time’s episode “No One Can Hear...
Harassment on YouTube: How Gaming Struggles to be Inclusive
Content warning: This article is about gender-targeted harassment on YouTube and contains imagery that may be disturbing or upsetting to readers. Roses has been making content on the video game commentary YouTube channel PushingUpRoses since 2010, but many male...
Giveaway: ‘A Simple Favor’ Prize Package
A Simple Favor seems pretty perfect for the big screen. It has twists, turns, and plenty of suspense. The characters are contemporary and the mystery arises from something seemingly ordinary. I mean, how can simply agreeing to pick your friend's kid up from school end...