It’s mid November, a month ago people started getting ill and behaving oddly. The illness started with a sore skin and bleeding gums, then it moved on to bleeding from eyes, ears and nose. People would become more aggressive, starting fights in the street without provocation and eventually tearing each other apart. It didn't take … Continue reading Anaphylaxis and the Apocalypse: A Short Story
Month: October 2017
Mis(h)adra & Ink in Water – Important comics you need to read
An Arab-American college student struggles to live with epilepsy in this starkly colored and deeply-cutting graphic novel. Isaac wants nothing more than to be a functional college student—but managing his epilepsy is an exhausting battle to survive. He attempts to maintain a balancing act between his seizure triggers and his day-to-day schedule, but he finds … Continue reading Mis(h)adra & Ink in Water – Important comics you need to read
What We Kill by Howard Odentz
Synopsis: Four life-long friends wake in the woods overlooking the highway, without any memory of how they got there. One has a triangle burned into his forearm. One has lost her pants. One is missing his glass eye. The last is covered in blood. As images of big, black eyes and the cries of sheep … Continue reading What We Kill by Howard Odentz
Review: The Curse Servant by J.P. Sloan (The Dark Choir book 2)
Synopsis: The one person standing between Hell… and an innocent girl… is a man without a soul. A regular life isn’t in the cards for Dorian Lake, but with his charm-crafting business invigorated, and the prospect of a serious relationship within his grasp, life is closer to normal than Dorian could ever expect. In the … Continue reading Review: The Curse Servant by J.P. Sloan (The Dark Choir book 2)
Review: Beta – Quiet Girls Can Run The World by Rebecca Holman
Synopsis: What does success look like? 5AM conference calls and late nights in the office? Winning every argument in the office and always getting your own way? What does a successful woman look like? The shoulder-pad wearing Alpha? The dogmatist who rules with an iron fist? The reality is far more nuanced. Yet women are … Continue reading Review: Beta – Quiet Girls Can Run The World by Rebecca Holman
Pauline West has kickstarted my Halloween
Synopsis: “The night I met Death, he thought he was just passing through.” The eerie, obsessive attraction between a restless woman and a dangerous traveler tips into madness. Terror with a twist, STALKER is a richly gothic tale to be read by candlelight. This book has been sat on my TBR for far too long, … Continue reading Pauline West has kickstarted my Halloween
Audiobook Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, narrated by Tim Robbins
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and … Continue reading Audiobook Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, narrated by Tim Robbins
