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Annie Kapur
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Secondary English Teacher & Lecturer
🎓Literature & Writing (B.A)
🎓Film & Writing (M.A)
🎓Secondary English Education (PgDipEd) (QTS)
📍Birmingham, UK
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Stories (2037/0)
Book Review: "Sam: A Horror Novel" by Iain Rob Wright
“May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Hide" by Kiersten White
After reading Mister Magic, I became really interested in the works of Kiersten White and so, I read her other novel entitled Hide. I am going to say this before anything else, Hide was written before Mister Magic and so I did not expect it to be as good as the latter novel. However, it was actually really quite interesting. The storyline was pretty original but for me, there were too many characters. Apart from Mack, I did not feel like I could remember many of the characters because there were a) so many of them and b) some of them had very similar personalities. So there are some clear advantages and disadvantages of this story. Let's have a look at what it is actually about.
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Wager" by David Grann
Now, I’m going to be perfectly honest with you, I had already heard about the ship known as ‘The Wager’ before hearing about the film being made or the book by David Grann. However, I was not clear on many of the details. It was like one of those useless pieces of trivia you have stored in your skull that only comes out if someone asks a very specific question about it. To date: nobody has. Apart from this, I came across this book in my Amazon Recommendations. Having read ‘The Killers of the Flower Moon’ when the book came out and movie was first rumoured, I thought I would give this one the same shot. Let’s take a look at what makes this book a really good read and some things that kind of make it a bit boring for a reader who wishes to learn whilst being entertained.
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
3 Literary Conspiracy Theories. Top Story - February 2024.
A conspiracy theory is defined as: an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable. (Wikipedia)
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Introduction From: The New York Times One of the greatest movies ever made without a shadow of a doubt is 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick. In my humble opinion, this is probably Kubrick's greatest movie and along with the iconic theme music and some incredible shots, this movie gets its own place on the list of greatest films. Many lists of the past and present feature this film as one of the best ever made and even though there's a lot of question about what is actually happening in some parts of the film, nobody can argue against the fact that this movie is an experience rather than just passive viewing.
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Mister Magic" by Kiersten White
“And Val. A little girl who doesn’t understand why the world is the way it is, why everyone tries to tell her she can’t want or feel the things she does. Why her mother never sees what she needs, only hates her for asking. Why, when she reaches out a hand and demands, she’s met with pain and rejection. Here, when she reaches out and demands? Magic. And at such a small cost.”
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Bitterthorn" by Kat Dunn
“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night and crackling the insides of my windows. I had longed to be left alone, to escape the lie of my family, only to discover this was different kind of poison. Slow acting, but lethal. At first it numbed me, pleasure leaching from my days like a summer leaf draining of sap to greet the autumn. Then loneliness came, a creeping oily stain that stopped me from enjoying it at all."
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "All Hallow’s" by Christopher Golden
“How simple things had been, once upon a time. In the era when children still played with Raggedy Ann, life had been so uncomplicated. Or at least it seemed that way. Though he knew, of course, that the past had its share of pain and ugliness.”
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Doomed Romances" ed. by Joanne Ella Parsons
Full Title: Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love edited by Joanne Ella Parsons “For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.” Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
The Whisperers and Other Stories ed. by Mike Ashley
Full Title: The Whisperers and Other Stories: A Life in the Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood edited by Mike Ashley And the darkness puzzled him. He remembered the absence of accustomed windows, but it was only when the candle-light brought close the face of his watch, with two o’clock upon it, that he heard the sound of confused whispering in the corners of the room, and realised with a little twinge of fear that those who whispered had just been standing beside his very bed. The room was full.
By Annie Kapur5 months ago in Geeks
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