The short: 4/5 ✦. A beautifully moving novel about grief, love, sacrifice, and monsters.
Month: January 2016
Essay: Down on Skid Row
“The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.”
― Lori Lansens, The Girls
Book Review: ‘Bits & Pieces’ (2015)
The short: 4/5 ✦. A varied collection of interesting, sad, heroic, and zombified short stories of the Rot & Ruin series.
Flash Fiction: Transcendence
“The best horse doesn’t always win the race.”
— Irish saying
Book Review: ‘Steelheart’ (2013)
The short: 4/5 ✦. A fast-paced, action-filled, super-powered novel that subverts (almost all) expectations.
Essay: Allen Ginsberg and America (Or: How He Learned to Ignore Propaganda and Laugh at the Bomb)
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
— Allen Ginsberg
Book Review: ‘A Darker Shade of Magic’ (2015)
The short: 4/5 ✦. An excellently written novel with blood magic, black magic, Red London, Grey London, fancy coats, a future pirate captain, and the young magician caught up in it all.
Flash Fiction: Invisible Worth
“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
— Jean Cocteau
Book Review: ‘Illuminae’ (2015)
The short: 5/5 ✦. An fast-paced, exciting, horrifyingly fascinating epistolary novel that rocks the stars as much as the genre.
Essay: In Which Ginsberg Uses “America” to Discuss Propaganda
“America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?”
— Allen GinsbergRead More »
