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…

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…