31 Days of 31 Books & Recipe Pairings to set the Spooktober Mood
Tag: book reviews
Book Review – Scarborough (Catherine Hernandez)
I was fifteen. You were four. I taught you drama in a Scarborough community centre. You were surviving neglect.
Book Review – Murder Most Unladylike
I spent the rest of the morning feeling as though I was trying to be in twenty places at once. Shadowing one person, let alone four, is an unexpectedly sweaty business.
Book Review – A Blade So Black (L.L. McKinney)
Right tool for the right job in the right hands? Anything is possible.
Book Review: Unnatural, Vol. 1 (Mirka Andolfo)
I instantly stole my heart! What a fascinating world that Andolfo has put together!
Book Tag – 80s Movies
Books... and movie nostalgia!
Book Review – We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
Their tongues will burn, I thought, as though they had eaten fire. Their throats will burn when the words come out and in their bellies they will feel a torment hotter than a thousand fires.
Comic Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 (Jordie Bellaire & Dan Mora)
This Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic reboot is, in her words, author Jordie Bellaire's "love letter" to the original series.
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… Continue reading Critical Analysis – Briar Rose / Sleeping Beauty
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.
Words & Stitches 