Metaphors for Zombies:The Mystery of Existence/Conundrum of Nothingness1. Manifestation of the Freudian war between the ID  and Superego        Within the recent Cormac McCarthy book,The Road,  the two main characters who still retain their very human titles, father and son, are pitted against the rest of world of surviving humans that are cannibalistic. Humanity in essence has…

Amazon (Kindle Copy)/ Barnes&Nobles (Nook Edition) Review:     What makes us surrender ourselves irrevocably to Gothic tales like  Beauty and the Beast,Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights? What specific amalgamation of literary elements spins such an impressive Gothic net around us that we find ourselves willfully trapped in an ephemeral world filled with dark, untold secrets? Of all…

A Bibliophile’s Reverie Shockingly Undergoing some Major Renovations!      Growth on this blog has been very stagnant, but things are going to go through some much needed change around this blog. I know its shocking and unfathomable, but renovating this dusty old chamber of a blog has become this summer’s project. I want to…

Amazon (Kindle Copy)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Copy) Twelve-year-old Jadiel is forced by her evil stepmother to fetch the rejuvenating leaves from the Eternal Tree by next full moon or her father will be killed. On her journey, she encounters Callen, her uncle’s apprentice, a young man looking for a mysterious bridge. Together they chase after…

Previous Posts on Zombie May Springtime for Zombies….(No floral scent, Just a Fetid Odor)    Have there been just way too many posts to keep track of? Are you trying to keep up before the zombies get you? Well, if you’ve missed some of the previous posts, including a review of Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies,  here…

  (Author of Warm Bodies) Interview:   1.FF(Me):”Ever since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein  and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, it was only natural for a book to be eventually written from what seems to be psychologically impossible perspective :the perspective of a zombie. Did you have trouble, before writing, trying to conceptualize a novel from a zombie’s perspective?” IM (Author:)”Surprisingly, no. From that…

Why are zombies so mindless? How zombie stories are focused more on the human characters?    As I continue to expand on my research into the popular appeal of zombies and their history as literary creatures, I have to dwell a bit on morbid topics such as death. Zombies and death are inseparable.They are the projection of…

Review:            I struggle in vain to try to find words to articulate my ambivalence about this book. One of the greatest challenges to writing this review is having great familiarity with Madeleine L’Engle’s style of writing. Luckily, the writing itself has brevity, and various  words  in Madeleine L’Engle’s prose seems…

   As zombie May continues on “A Bibliophile’s Reverie” at an unrelenting pace, I made special banners just for the occasion. Please feel free to share them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and the myriad number of other places on the internet! Zombie May Banners      Speaking of Facebook and Twitter, my blog happens to…

         Click the cover art above to find out more details about why the artist, Michael Whelan, ultimately decided upon this cover for the final “Wheel of Time” book, written by the highly talented Brandon Sanderson. Admittedly, I have only read the first two book of the series, and have been so…

“Warm Bodies” Review:                              For the last few years, zombies have been occupying movie trailers and they have always been relegated to the category of uninteresting, brainless, and worthy of remorseless violence. Typically, zombies serve the role of being easy targets for…

Book Reviews for the week of May 7th, 2012      Every week, I’ll be including a specific list of titles that I plan to write reviews for, and post at any time during the week. Here are this week’s books that will hopefully be reviewed: