I’ve never been a Stephen King fan. I find his writing to be over-descriptive, meandering and full of filler. Of course, there are some rare books of his that I do enjoy. One of them is “The Green Mile.” Yes, I’ve also seen the movie so I’ll talk about both here. First, I’ve known about “The Green Mile” for decades. I never had time or interest in ever reading the […]
I haven’t read that many books in the past year. I spent more time reviewing comics for reviewfix.com than reading novels. I can count on one hand the number of novels I’ve read this past year. One of those novels is Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and I can say without hesitation that this was the best book I’ve read that year. Odd, whose name means “the […]
Yes, I’m fully aware that it’s been almost a year since I did anything with this site. Real ife stuff has happened in that time so I’ll try to make up for any lost time. This time it’s going to be the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Yes, I went from reading one big book (War and Peace) to another and this one didn’t take me about 15 years to […]
Ah, War and Peace. That one 19th Century Russian novel that the makers of Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! want you to believe that an elementary school-age child can finish during winter break. It is also considered one of the best novels, if not the best, novel ever written. I started reading War and peace sometime in 2005 or 2006 and did not complete it until December 2021. Why so […]
That’s right, I’m reviewing another Speak adaptation. I do like that book that much. This time it’s the graphic novel with artist Emily Carroll. As with the previous two, the plot is about high schooler Melinda who everyone hates because she went to a party and called the cops, getting everyone in trouble. The real reason and this is no longer a spoiler, she got raped at that party but […]
Wow, I haven’t written a review of anything horror in almost two years. Time to fix that with the YA novel The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn. Jules (girl. Yes, I know) moves into an old house in Virginia because her dad renovates old houses. She spots a mysterious girl on the third floor of the house and Jules thinks the girl is trying to call […]
How many of you remember a small movie called The Indian in the Cupboard? I remember loving it as a kid. Recently I was talking about the movie with my sister (don’t remember what sparked it) and she said that my brother-in-law’s cousin was in it as a background character in the school. So I immediately turned the movie on and whenever they were in school I asked my brother […]
One weird little habit that people who are both readers and video game players have is playing visual novels. While a niche market in the states, it’s huge in Japan. One of the most recent examples is horror/mystery Raging Loop. After a terrible breakup, college graduate Haruaki Fusaishi finds himself in a small town after getting lost just riding around the Japanese countryside on his motorcycle. What Fusaishi didn’t expect […]
One of the biggest movies that came out in 1989 was Driving Miss Daisy. As with many things Hollywood, this was based on something and that something was a 50 page (!) play by Alfred Uhry who also wrote the screenplay. The story is about a 72-year-old Jewish woman named Daisy Werthan who crashed her car into a neighbor’s garage and her insurance company says she can’t drive. So her […]
If it wasn’t obvious from the thirty-one horror reviews I did last October, I love Halloween. So whenever I see anything even remotely associated with Halloween it’s mine. So the second I saw a graphic novel called Pumpkinheads and it takes place on Halloween IN A PUMPKIN PATCH I had to get read it. It was not what I was expecting. Written by Rainbow Rowell with artist Faith Erin Hicks, […]
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