This Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic reboot is, in her words, author Jordie Bellaire’s “love letter” to the original series.
Category: Reviews and Essays
Critical Analysis – Briar Rose / Sleeping Beauty
As part of my Grimm Project, I have been slowly going through the original Grimm’s tales and writing my own re-imaginings. The motivation behind this is not only that I love a haunting fairy tale, but that I want to consider the added layer of darkness inherent to these stories because of tropes and conceits…
Book Review – The Marrow Thieves (Cherie Dimaline)
I knew I’d never see my family if I were captured; we wouldn’t be reunited at the school. I had to get down from this tree safely and keep moving. Mitch had sacrificed himself so I could live, so I had to live. It was the only thing left I could do for him.
My Own 2019 Reading Challenge
I decided to make my own personalized challenge, based on the kinds of things I’d like to read more of and the kinds of things that will help me tear through my own TBR list. Here’s what I came up with.
Book Review – The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?
Book Review – The Hazel Wood (Melissa Albert)
Life never turns out how you imagine it will when you’re young. Everything is smaller than you think, or too big. It all smells a little funny and fits like somebody else’s shirt.
Book Tag – Seven Deadly Sins
Books, books, books!
Book Review – Renegades (Marissa Meyer)
“If people wanted to stand up for themselves or protect their loved ones or do what they believe in their hearts is the right thing to do, then they would do it. If they wanted to be heroic, they would find ways to be heroic, even without supernatural powers.”
Podcast Round Up – Women’s Voices
I love, love, love audio-tainment. I find it an especially useful way to spruce up mundane tasks like cleaning, or even to add a little something extra to fun but silent tasks, like cooking or crocheting. Some of my general go-tos include: Stuff You Should Know Beautiful / Anonymous Sawbones Still Processing Mostly, I’m just…
Reading Round Up – 2018
Looking back on books I read in 2018
