Saturday, 8 February 2025

How I like to study History - not an essay, just small thoughts

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  Back in late 2024, I had a big history study urge.  I wanted to do the Victorians again, as I really enjoyed A102, an introductory history...
Sunday, 17 December 2023

Small Impressions: 'Every Vow You Break', by Peter Swanson (2021)

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  This was a quick read.  The strong characterisation of the heroine kept it going.  A very satisfying mix of a horror film of a folk horror...
Friday, 15 September 2023

Our Wives Under the Sea, by Julia Armfield (2022)

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  This was amazing.  I didn't feel very well (long working summer exhaustion), and started randomly reading this after being taken with ...
Monday, 2 January 2023

Idol, Burning by Rin Usami (2020 originally) - small and perfect

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  I don't want to say anything about the plot of this book.  It's an amazing character portrait of a lonely girl and what she spends...
Thursday, 13 October 2022

A Serbian Film (2010) - a review of extreme horror for Halloween 2022

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MANY SPOILERS, BEWARE. I decided to do a review of extreme horror for Halloween for my blog.   Just randomly, out of nowhere. This is the...
Sunday, 4 September 2022

The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris - I'm one of the people that loved this book

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  Fascinating that almost the first thing I’d note about this book I really enjoyed is that it’s written by a Black woman and yet though i...
Sunday, 24 July 2022

Small review of Her Dark Wings by Melinda Salisbury (2022)

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Modern retelling of the story of Persephone (Kore), and how she came to be in the Underworld. I won't set it up more than that.  That...