“It was so shocking and so different than what I expected it to be…” -Justine Alley Dowsett, Mirror World Publishing (Hardcover Episode 67: I’ll Be Your Mirror) A Young Adult Rom Com featuring vampires. Not my usual…
This may sound strange, but some of my most vivid childhood memories involve reading at night. That time I tried to read under my covers with a flashlight (epic fail!), for example, or that time I…
That Book You Never Finished
- May 25, 2016
- Tagged as: english major woes, hard reads, russian literature, tomes, war and peace
I have a confession to make. I have never ever ever ever gotten through War and Peace. My most successful venture took me up to chapter five. I once directed an adaptation of Tom Stoppard’s EGBDF,…
Hey so, apparently the author is reading this post. Hi Scott! I'm pretty sure you don't eat babies. After a while of not reading things (Well..I read 'Gone Girl' but I didn't do a review...
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- December 18, 2015
- Tagged as: likes and dislikes, review, star wars, the force awakens
******* SPOILERS BE BELOW. TURN BACK NOW IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE ‘EM. ******* ** SERIOUSLY ** Okay, that’s out of the way. So let’s do this. Yesterday I went to a midnight…
In the tradition of great Confessionalist poets, I give you “I suck at being an english major.” Heh-hem. How I really feel is: I haven’t read a book in weeks A letter arrived in…
I read “The Girl With All The Gifts” by M.R. Carey (Not related to Brittni Carey). People compared it to The Martian, or Stephen King, or Ender’s Game. It wasn’t really like that. Basically, this…
Alphabet by Kathy Page (Published 2014 by Biblioasis) A prison narrative, concerned with sexuality, relationships, and rehabilitation. There were times I felt I couldn’t go on, Page’s prose was so devastatingly raw – yet never for…
I read Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven” – A post apocalyptic novel. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and National Book Award nominee. It’s set largely in Toronto and what used to be…
This book was great! It was fun. A good summer read. Definitely a book for geeks, or people with an affinity for video games from the 80s and 90s – even today! The plot,…
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