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-Dragon Age Vol. 1
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…
Preview of Upcoming Book Reviews/Blog Features
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!
Poem of the Week
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…
Zombie May: Zombies: The Wraiths of Nihilism
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…
Review of Diane Setterfield’s "The Thirteenth Tale"
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…
Important News about Blog Changes
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…
Review of C.S. Lakin’s "The Land of Darkness"
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…
Keeping up with Zombie May
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…
Zombie May: Interview with Isaac Marion
(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…
Zombie May: Discussion of my Personal Zombie Project
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 of Madeleine L’Engle’s "A Live Coal in the Sea"
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…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 