(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:

Is the Self-Publishing Route a good choice for aspiring writers? (Click on the image above to seek out more details about this awesome obscure novel,published by a lesser-known publisher)    In the last few weeks, my email box has been inundated with requests from writers who published their stuff on “Smashwords.” Now, I don’t know whether they’re written well;…

Why Artistic Fundamentalism , with its enforcement of outlines, has destroyed many writers?   All artists work differently like most people, yet people are miffed by the artists that are not wholly conscious at all times of what they’re setting out to write. Was William Shakespeare completely conscious of how layered his plays are to the…

Enter Nideck Point:Beginning of Reuben’s Hero Journey       Fascinatingly, Anne Rice has always had a proclivity for creating modern mythology, and she always populates her seemingly conventional settings with numerous types of creatures and characters that are otherwordly. She has a knack for bridging both worlds of the unconventional and conventional, savage and civilized…

Review of “The Road” I’m experimenting right now with a new format for my book reviews because I feel like my other reviews have been too lengthy. Instead, they will be shorter and hopefully more focused. At the same time, I even will leave some questions of consideration at the end.    Review:Corman Mcarthy’s The Road  is…

Wrestling with Zombies (Part 1) Trying to discern their Appeal: What is with our culture’s fixation with these unflattering monstrosities? I don’t completely understand the appeal behind these creatures, or at least I have my weak theories that I think may explain their appeal. As an outsider to the genre, I’ll be trying to  understand…