Following a scandal, Helen flees with her husband to his ancestral home, Ballintyre, where his family still lives, but on arrival her beloved sister in law Sylla is mysteriously missing and no one seems to be looking for her. Helen is determined to get to the bottom of it, and in the process, we learn …
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is 25. The TV show, that is. And to celebrate this there's a new DVD release and a few things along that line, and also this book. Evan Ross Katz is a huge Buffy and Sarah Michelle Gellar fan. In this book, he has researched the show, it's cast, it's backstory, …
Continue reading Into Every Generation A Slayer Is Born by Evan Ross Katz
AnnieLee is on the run to Nashville, determined to make it big, stealing a truck on the way and willing to sleep rough. While she has talent, she also has a past, and it's one that determined to catch up to her. Ethan is a musician who sees her in a bar and can't forget …
Continue reading Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
I was so excited when I requested this book, and it did not disappoint. People are basically decent, and the world is not as bad as you think. That's essentially the premise of this book. But it's not a light, fluffy, motivational book, it's actually a well researched and absolutely fascinating read. I came to …
Continue reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
So, this is a different post than my usual reviews, because this time I'm sharing my own work! I was asked by Lee Fearnside to write a piece for her anthology Death Never Dies. This is a follow up to Chimera Projects O Relentless Death, and was edited by Lee, and has her beautiful lino …
Continue reading My Writing: Death Never Dies Anthology (Illustrated/Edited by Lee Fearnside).
The Essential Directors covers 56 influential directors from Hollywood, from the 1920's to the 70's. To lovers or scholars of film, a lot of these will be well known names to you, but there are some more obscure faces who have been forgotten in later years and are ripe for rediscovery. We get an introduction …
This book felt like a breath of fresh air after some of the more serious/heavy things I've been reading lately. Gabby longs to be close to her sisters again, like she remembers them being before their mother died suddenly when they were young, their father seemed to abandon them and they ended up being raised …
A homeless teenage girl in London tricks her way into the home of a wealthy man, in order to get inside the place where her partner was last seen. A gothic fiction, set inside a crumbling mansion full of books and papers owned by a dark and moody man, this book is quite a page …
How our love of storytelling builds societies and tears them down. In his previous book, The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall showed us how humans see the world through the paradigm of stories. After all, most of our communication, almost all of our entertainment and all social media is essentially storytelling. We can take in facts …
In 1860's England, Nell, whose body is patterned with birth marks, is sold by her father to Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders. Jasper initially buys her without seeing her, because he notices his younger brother Toby's romantic interest in her and he always has to one up his brother. But Nell has a real talent …
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