“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison
It's wutherin' time. The official trailer for Wuthering Heights (2026) starring Margo Robbie and Jacob Elordi dropped a few days ago and so far the most enjoyable thing about it is the Youtube comments section. Based on what I've seen from the trailer and interviews with the creative team for this movie, it doesn't seem… Continue reading Wuthering Heights (2026) Is a Crime Against Humanity
Hey, I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but everything is awful now. Everything is too expensive, everybody hates each other, and the social fabric of the entire world is unravelling like a spool on a Beyblade. As such, I thought it would be a good idea to list off a… Continue reading Books to Read When You Just Can’t Anymore
I stumble through the streets while Mama trails behind, preventing the train of my dress from dragging through the dirt and leaves. Her breathe is loud in my ears as we progress. She is struggling to keep her balance. There are no horses or mules to convey us to the churchyard. They were slaughtered for meat… Continue reading Samhain Wedding: A Halloween Short Story
Unlike most people on the planet, I love Romeo and Juliet. I love the plot, I love the dialogue, I love the setting, I love the conflict... I love the story in general. Everything about this play to me is- In high school I was the weird kid that memorized the dialogue for fun and… Continue reading Unpopular Opinion: Romeo and Juliet
Summary: In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an… Continue reading Book Review: “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles (Spoiler-Free)
Summary: All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist. She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became the… Continue reading Thoughts on “A Natural History of Dragons” by Marie Brennan (Spoiler-Free)
Summary here. The backdrop of The Glittering Hour is an entertaining one; a post-war Britain using glamour and materialism to mask it's festering wounds left by a lost generation killed in a terrible war. It's a time of great luxury, but also of great grief and poverty; of sickness and depression. It is the perfect setting… Continue reading Thoughts on “The Glittering Hour” by Iona Grey (Spoiler-Free)
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE ANY FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS NOVEL, READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Summary: January 1937. 28-year-old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at… Continue reading Thoughts on “Dark Matter” by Michelle Paver
Summary: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens–at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world–hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a… Continue reading Spoiler-Free Thoughts on “Drood” by Dan Simmons
Summary: Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of… Continue reading Spoiler- Free Thoughts on “11/22/63” by Stephen King
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