Tag: book review
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Book Review: This World We Live In
Book Review: This World We Live In Rating: 3.5 / 5 Stars It wasn’t what I expected. The book starts off echoing the vibe of the first novel, but it slowly cranks up the intensity. As the characters run out of food, you start to genuinely worry about them, watching them scramble for ways to…
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Amour Fati
The world outside is burning, but Addy doesn’t know why. Yes, it’s been taking awhile for me to release something. Life isn’t easy with mental illness and a chronic illness. Plus, life is too dang expensive. It’s hard to get anything done when life is so bleak sometimes. However, I am still writing. My love…
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Book Review: Life As We Knew it.
Book Review: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. “I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it’s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.” I actually bought the third book in this series first and realized quickly it wasn’t book…
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This Is Not a Test – Movie Review
“Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad.” If there is one thing I LOVE, it’s zombies. Books, movies, games, if it involves “braaaainnns,” I’m there. It all started when I was little, watching my uncle play Resident Evil. I remember my heart racing; it was so spooky. When I…
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Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher: A Review
Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher is a witchy, magical retelling of Jane Eyre. It features a gifted healer named Jane Aire who takes a position at Thornfield Hall, a cursed estate with a mysterious and reclusive master, Edward Rochester. Full disclosure: I had no idea this was a retelling of Jane Eyre. I’ve…
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Gut by Giulia Enders
Book review on Gut by Giulia Enders. Did you know that around the beginning of the twentieth century, dermatologists in Germany began calling for people to bathe at least once a week to stay clean and help lower sickness? And yet, it took until the 1950s for families to even start bathing weekly, because they…
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The making of Souille
‘The cold crept down my spine as if it were a snake on its way to attack. It caused a violent shiver to erupt through my bones, rippling into my mind and tearing at what little sanity I had left. When I thought I wouldn’t return to reality, the piercing screech of something unnatural cut…
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Addy and Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Through the weeds and reeds, past swampy ditches with the small, beady eyes of gators, stood a trailer park beside a murky pond filled with dragonflies and turtles. With salt twisting through the Gulf wind, a young girl’s imagination grew wild in the summer. With her fingertips grazing the soft paper of a new book,…
Coushatta LaRue 