Rating: 4 stars The Elegance of the Hedgehog is about what you would expect if I told you it was a fictional book written by a French philosopher. You can practically smell the stereotypes of the baguette and cigarette wafting in between sentences on the pointlessness of life. I once…
Rating: 5 stars I read Foucault's Pendulum because it seems with every day that conspiracy theories enter our lives ever more. I thought that well, a book by that big famous author might give me some insights and be an interesting read. The story is a little bit of this…
Hello all! I finally had some free time, so I wanted to talk about what is my favorite example of deceptive advertising. It’s from the movie of Angels and Demons. For those of you who don’t know, the process of making a trailer for a film is usually done by…
Rating: 4 stars I have been spending the last two weeks of my life swamped in work, but I had Fire and Ice as a break from the stress. It was always a relief to pick it up and let myself get lost in the the story. It tells the…
Dear Readers, What you're about to read is a bit stream-of-thought and not well-formatted. I will do some editing, but don't expect good formatting or readability. Now, I've always been a big fan of Sci-Fi, and I've been recently listening to podcasts. I also am a living, breathing human being,…
Rating: 5 stars When someone first suggested to me to read Kindred, she described it as a type of Science Fiction. I think, now after I’ve read it, that she wasn’t wrong, but she wasn’t right. It contains some elements of the genre, but it is so much more. Kindred…
Rating: 4.5 stars A book of short stories can take on many forms, and Delicate Ministrations takes along us for a ride that sometimes are a few, independent stories and some that feel like independent chapters of a larger story. I often had the feeling that the stories were reminding…
Rating: 5 stars Fragments is a fantastically interesting short story that fascinates you from the first word until the last. I have long been a fan of the short story medium becauseit’s a quick way to get to know the author as they are forced to examine a subject and…
Hello all, I've been taking a nice, long day off since I finished the latest rounds of edits, and, to be honest, I kinda got bored with all this free time. I'm used to spending all my time reading/writing/putting out fires/trying to do social media stuff. So I thought I'd…
