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Welcome to the blog! Here you’ll find posts in categories including book reviews, screen bites (or micro film and TV reviews), and poetry.
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A riveting, slow-burning work of suspense and horror that’s equal parts paranormal puzzle box and cinematic and historical deep-dive.
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A propulsive and perplexing read that combines the social terror of Parasite with the psychological suspense of Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching, all wrapped up in a YA haunted house story.
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Poignant, funny, and utterly creepy. Absurdity mixed with a thick layer of dread. How to Sell a Haunted House delivers the grounded and recognizable pangs of sibling rivalry, parental favoritism, family secrets, and the long and complex process of grief filtered through an extraordinary paranormal tale of intergenerational trauma, evil puppets, and haunted houses.
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In a cross between Michaela Coel’s “Chewing Gum,” the Mindy Kaling-produced “Never Have I Ever,” and Talia Hibbert’s Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Jessica George presents a fresh and heartbreakingly funny bildungsroman of an endearingly guileless, nerdy, and messy late-bloomer with a singular voice.
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A rising track star, newly transferred on a coveted athletic scholarship, quickly gets mired in a mounting web of secrets, cheating scandals, digital gossip, cyberbullying, and murder at an elite Northern California boarding school.
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A quick-paced coming-of-age portrait that reads like a sitcom, Everything I Know About Love is an interesting cocktail that’s part laughter, excitement, and romance; part cringe, existential despair, and tragedy; and part deeply heartfelt moments, platonic love, and self-evolution.
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A grieving, pragmatic bookstore owner with an unlikely aversion to reading discovers more than the pleasures of getting lost in a good book while going on a series of literary-inspired adventures around Denver with an idealistic bestselling romance author.
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No, there are nightmares more intense and ordinary: the ones that occur in the day.
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