Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines is one of those books that, as an adult, you don’t expect to find on your TBR and certainly don’t expect to enjoy when you do. It came up in one of my daily book emails and I was just bored enough to give it a go. I’m glad […]
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Book Review: East Highland Gothic by David Tallach
East Highland Gothic by David Tallach is an example of the old adage, don’t judge a book by its cover. I very nearly passed this one by because the cover was so bad (plain green, with yellow text.) I’m glad I didn’t. East Highland Gothic is a work of melancholy brilliance that deserves a much better […]
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Book Review: Live Love Life by Philip Lister
Live Love Life by Philip Lister is beautiful to look at. The cover is just great. It doesn’t really fit the collected poems inside, though. The book’s description had me expecting a little more whimsy and a little less angst. (And more rhyming than there actually was.) many of the poems just came across as kind […]
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Movie Review: The Wind (2018)
CATEGORY: cinephile, couch potato, film and tv, film review, horror movies, modern horror, movie, movie review, Westerns
I’m not really into horror Westerns (Western horror?) or, well, any Westerns so The Wind (2018) was a big step out of my comfort zone. I could probably count the horror Westerns I’ve enjoyed on one hand. Guess you could say I didn’t have high expectations for this one. But, although the format was a […]
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Book Review: A Pun in the Oven by Phil Maund
When I started reading A Pun in the Oven by Phil Maund, I was expecting a collection of poems about pregnancy and motherhood – something this book definitely is not. (Totally my fault, I didn’t bother checking the poet’s name first.) I was also expecting a great deal of silliness, which A Pun in the […]
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Book Review: A Rip in This Universe by by Seth E. Kinstle
CATEGORY: bibliophile, book review, book whore, modern poetry, National Poetry Month, poet, poetry, poets
A Rip in This Universe by Seth E Kinstle isn’t light reading. The poems are deep and intense. They call upon universal human experience, shared struggle, to encourage introspection and reflection. I found it easiest to read them in chunks so as not to get bogged down by their heavy nature. There’s no doubt A […]
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Book Review: The Death Sonnets by Justin Tate
CATEGORY: bibliophile, book review, bookwhore, modern poetry, National Poetry Month, poem, poet, poetry, reading, sonnet
There isn’t much I can say about Justin Tate’s The Death Sonnets except I doubt I’ve ever had as much fun reading a sonnet before. (Though my sonnet experience is limited to Shakespeare so, you know…) This book is just plain fun. The Death Sonnets are whimsically twisted and creeptastically delightful. This book is a […]
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Book Review: Digging Up My Bones by Gwyndyn Alexander
Gwyndyn Alexander’s Digging Up My Bones is less a collection of poetry than it is a battle cry. It challenges us to stand up, speak out, and change the world in a meaningful way. More than that, it encourages us to love ourselves and help raise our sisters up. There’s no attempt to hide the […]
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Book Review: Lazy Prey: 120 funny, touching and vulgar poems by Jeroen Den Haan
I can see how this book of poetry might appeal to a certain group of men but it doesn’t do anything for me. Nothing in Lazy Prey inspired or touched me. The only poem that even stood out was “A Grateful Goodbye”, which was so shocking it earned a knee-jerk laugh. There’s no organization to […]
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Movie Review: Mercy Black (2019) **POSSIBLE SPOILERS**
CATEGORY: cinephile, couch potato, creepypasta, film, film and tv, film review, horror, modern horror, movie, movie review, Netflix, urban legendMercy Black is a visual creepypasta that scared the crap outta me. Which horror author had to sleep with the lights on last night? Yup, this one. Usually when we watch horror movies, either Jay or I have predicted the ending before we’ve made it halfway. Not this one. Mercy Black kept us guessing until […]
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