Blog Hiatus For this Week Only    Right now, I am taking a much needed respite from blogging. Unfortunately,I will not be posting a review of Jonathan Maberry’s “Rot and Ruin” anytime this week. It might appear sometime in July, unrelated to anything revolving around this month’s blog theme. Since its the end of May, Zombie…

Click the now deceased Tootsie Pop Owl to get to the retro version of Book Blogging 101 Book Blogging “101” With  Fantastyfreak’s stand-in: Muzzy (obvious copyright infringement..)       In the past, I’ve commissioned the Tootsie Pop Owl until he got one too many licks in his perpetual game of trying to get to the…

News for Upcoming Blog Features    I apologize for the lack of a “BEA” related post that was supposed to appear yesterday, and the start today’s Shakespeare feature is being moved to next week because I’m still trying to organize my planned features for next week. First off, I am going to start limiting my…

YIKES.. Bella Swan’s twin sister has her own movie…….. More Spoilers follow, if you don’t mind them.. Read On. If you are fearful of snarkiness, avoid this review at all costs…     Sigh… so the snarkiness resumes with a certain film that has been perverting my mind and driving me to insanity. Yes, the movie…

Review of Carrie Ryan’s “The Dark and Hollow Places”Kindle Copy/Nook Copy*****SPOILER WARNING: READ REVIEW ONLY IF YOU’VE READ BOOKS 1& 2 OF THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH TRILOGY************ Disclaimer: I strongly urge people to still consider reading anything that  I might review negatively because you might hold a different opinion! Its part of the…

         Richelle Mead is one of those writers whose books I have always greatly enjoyed. Her Succubus series had some of the best dialogue out of nearly all the hundreds of other urban fantasy books that I have read. Recently, Sea Lion publishers has started publishing her “Dark Swan” series as comic…

Part 1:Reflections on Book Blogging: Is it worth it?         As BEA approaches, I cannot help but wonder if blogging is worth it. BEA represents the culmination of all your hard labor to successfully maintain a book blog. While euphoria sounds like a wonderful ideal, the real feeling of book blogging is often a sharp feeling…

Comic Wednesdays           Disclaimer about “Comic Wednesday on my blog Comic book reviews feel like a great departure from what I normally review, but ever since reading Buffy Season Eight, I’m slowly becoming much more appreciative of this style of art. Many people scoff at the art form because its generally seen…

Upcoming Reviews for this Week:Zombie May Ebook Review: Coming in June:Anti-Hero Month (Plethora of book reviews, starring inimitable anti-heroes)    (Retrospective look on Anne Rice’s iconoclastic anti-hero-Lestat) How about Shakespearean tragic heroes/anti-heroes? Are modern-day anti-heroes similar to Shakespearean villains? Of course, there will be numerous other reviews and other types of spontaneous posts all throughout the summer!

Polar Selves Sister… is that you…Staring from the glass membrane of the mirrorWith bated breathStirring, Wishing to reclaim lifeOn the other side of the glass,I scream plaintivelyFor a breakthroughExcept, there’s a puddle of blood… Resting under your feetFrom an unknown sourceIt plummets downDipping despondently into the river underneath Am I imagining this?Beginning to bleed profusely,The stigmata on my armMirrors…