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Book Tag – 80s Movies

February 22, 2019March 4, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Books... and movie nostalgia!

Tagged 80s, book reviews, Book tag, Bookish, books, books I like, movies, nostalgia, popular cultureLeave a comment
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Comic Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 (Jordie Bellaire & Dan Mora)

February 18, 2019March 4, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

This Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic reboot is, in her words, author Jordie Bellaire's "love letter" to the original series.

Tagged 90s, book reviews, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, comic books, graphic novels, jordie bellaire, joss whedon, LGBTQ, nostalgia, Reboot, Retelling1 Comment
Reviews and Essays, Seasonal

Reading Round Up – 2018

December 28, 2018February 11, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Looking back on books I read in 2018

Tagged Audiobooks, book reviews, Bookish, books, new year's, nostalgiaLeave a comment
Seasonal, Stories and Poems

Short Story – 100 Years

December 26, 2018January 23, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

(Based on Grimms' Sleeping Beauty) It had been only a single gasp of air that alerted her to the trouble.

Tagged anxiety, Briar Rose, Brothers Grimm, empowerment, Fairytales, fantasy, feminism, fiction, gothic, macabre, Magic, nostalgia, Re-imagining, romance, Short Story, Sleeping Beauty, Storytelling, Winter7 Comments
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Book Review – Paper Girls Vol. 4 (Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang)

December 12, 2018January 7, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Paper Girls Volume 4 collects issues 16-20 of the ongoing sci-fi graphic novel series. It's written by Brian K Vaughan (♥) and illustrated by Cliff Chiang. This volume currently holds a 4.18 on Goodreads.

Tagged 80s, book reviews, books, Brian K. Vaughan, comic books, graphic novels, nostalgia, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Y2KLeave a comment
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Book Tag – Books that Made Your Childhood

November 12, 2018February 11, 2019 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Books! And childhood nostalgia!

Tagged book reviews, Book tag, Bookish, books, childhood, children's literature, Fear Street, nanowrimo, nostalgia, YA9 Comments
Reviews and Essays, Seasonal

Book Tag – Halloween

October 31, 2018November 1, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

Books!... And HALLOWEEN

Tagged book reviews, Book tag, books, children's literature, Classic Stories, gothic, Halloween, horror, nostalgia, YALeave a comment
Seasonal, Stories and Poems

A Halloween Story (I Wrote as a Kid!)

October 31, 2018November 14, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

A dark, but hilarious, story that I wrote as a 10-yr old kid - Trick-or-treating, kidnapping, and a big rescue (kind of...) Happy Halloween!

Tagged 90s, childhood, fiction, Halloween, Halloween stories, humour, nostalgia, Scary stories, Short Story, Storytelling, YA6 Comments
Reviews and Essays

Revisiting Poltergeist (1982) in 2018

October 30, 2018October 31, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

I decided to return to Poltergeist in the atmosphere of 2018, to see if it holds up under scrutiny. In my opinion, it absolutely does.

Tagged 80s, feminism, Ghosts, Halloween, Horror movies, movie reviews, movies, nostalgia, paranormal, Poltergeist, popular culture, Stuff Mom Never Told You4 Comments
Reviews and Essays

Horror for Thought: The Horror Renaissance of the 2010s

October 26, 2018October 28, 2018 Shyla Fairfax-Owen

What makes horror movies so unique is their ability to explore what we, as a society, are dealing with at any given moment. Here's a glimpse at what the Horror Renaissance is telling us these days.

Tagged 2000s, 70s, 80s, 90s, feminism, film theory, horror, Horror movies, movie reviews, nostalgia, popular culture4 Comments

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