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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)
đź“ŤBirmingham, UK
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Book Review: "The Platform Edge" ed. by Mike Ashley
Full Title: The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley When I was at university, I used to take the trains all the time. It is one of my main forms of transport and it has been a constant worry in my mind that perhaps one day, I will meet with the wrong person on the train. If I am going to see my brother, I use the train. If I am going to the city, or to London, or to Bath or anywhere else I have been around the country - I will use the train. In this anthology edited by Mike Ashley though, we get to see the outcomes to all those questions we ask about taking the train at the wrong time or seeing the wrong thing on the lines. From stories by a large range of writers, including E.F Benson and Huan Mee - these are not just stories about taking the trains, these are stories about the weird things that we could encounter when we do.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Mortal Echoes" ed. by Greg Buzwell
Full Title: Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End edited by Greg Buzwell Admittedly, this is the second time I have read this book. If you know how my reviews are themed at the moment you will thus notice that I have slipped back into my ways of reading ghost stories. Recently, I have revisited ghost stories I enjoyed once in my teen years as well including the oddities of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the stories of Amelia B Edwards. I was surprised to think that I would enjoy this particular anthology even more than when I first read it some time last year or the year before (I don't remember). But honestly, reading a ghost story anthology or a horror anthology for a second time makes you appreciate all the stranger things about it more than you did last time. It helps you savour the entire thing, tasting it again and therefore, as far as the Tale of the Three Brothers goes - encountering death like an old friend.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Polar Horrors" ed. by John Miller
Full Title: Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World's Ends edited by John Miller The British Library's Tales of the Weird is probably the most fantastic set of anthology books to be published in recent years. With themes such as gastronomy, insects, trains, the undead, love and more, there are so many horrors to read about. Also, if you're not too into the themes and want to get to know the authors then there are author based anthologies as well. Compilations of stories by Vernon Lee, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and more are available to sink your teeth into. There are definitely a whole host of books that are perfect for every kind of horror lover out there.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Crawling Horror" ed. by Daisy Butcher and Janette Leaf
Full Title: Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird edited by Daisy Butcher and Janette Leaf I had made the mistake of trying to read this whilst eating lunch and honestly, it was pretty intense and horrifying. The series entitled The British Library's Tales of the Weird are compilations and anthologies of either a single author's horror stories or horror stories on a particular theme. Some are done more successfully than others and others are more interesting because of their ability to include previously unknown authors who have, perhaps either fallen out of the public eye or nothing was known about them to begin with. This book starts off with a very familiar face in the world of horror: Edgar Allan Poe.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories" ed. by Michael Newton
You can probably tell by now that there is a theme going on with me. From the very beginning of even being able to read, I have always been fascinated by ghost stories and stories with monsters, horrific characters and stories which make the reader feel uncomfortable. This book entitled The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories is admittedly a book I have actually read before but I am reading again because honestly, I loved it back when I read for the first time and now I'm really quite missing it. Ghost story anthologies are comfort books for me and I have always loved those beautiful stories of hauntings that humans once told to each other to warn against going out in the dead of night, or loitering around places they are not supposed to. This anthology is probably one of the better ghost story anthologies I have known in my time and so, I would love for you to enjoy it too.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Glimpses of the Unknown" ed. by Mike Ashley
Full Title: Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories edited by Mike Ashley "...a ghost story can work on several levels ranging from the unnerving tingle of the unknown, to that hauntingly evocative atmosphere of something strange or uncertain."
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Introduction From: Miramax From The Guardian to random lists online like mine, There Will Be Blood (2007) is more than often referred to as the greatest film of the 21st century. It's something that is very difficult to argue with as it has all of the charisma of Citizen Kane (1941) without any of the pretentions, it has all the character and machiavellianism of The Godfather and is pretty much right up there with it and finally, it has all the atmosphere of an Western without actually being a Western, thank god. There Will Be Blood (2007) is a 21st century testament to great filmmaking.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Any Human Heart" by William Boyd
“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside vendor’s stall. A cold beer on a pavement table of the Café de France – Marie Thérèse inside making me a sandwich au camembert. Munching the knob of a fresh baguette as I wander back from Sainte-Sabine. The farinaceous smell of the white dust raised by a breeze from the driveway. A cuckoo sounding the perfectly silent woods beyond the meadow. A huge grey, cerise, pink, orange and washed-out blue of a sunset seen from my rear terrace. The drilling of the cicadas at noon – the soft dialing-tone of the crickets at dusk slowly gathers. A good book, a hammock and a cold, beaded bottle of blanc sec. A rough red wine and steak frites. The cool, dark, shuttered silence of my bedroom – and, as I go to sleep, the prospect that all this will be available to me again, unchanged, tomorrow.”
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Shards" by Bret Easton Ellis
“Many years ago I realised that a book, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone: the dream becomes impossible to resist, there’s nothing you can do about it, you finally give in and succumb even if your instincts tell you to run the other way because this could be, in the end, a dangerous game—someone will get hurt.”
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "A Tidy Ending" by Joanna Cannon
“I’ve never taken anything stronger than an aspirin, but they give out all sorts from that trolley. Things to make you more happy, things to make you less happy. Except it’s someone else deciding exactly how happy you need to be, which is a flaw in the system no one else seems to acknowledge. The drugs trolley is very popular, at least with some. They’re queuing up ready for their turn long before it’s time, waiting for a tiny plastic cup containing just the right amount of happiness.”
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Dangerous Dimensions" ed. by Henry Bartholomew
Full Title: Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird edited by Henry Bartholomew Whether the story of Gottfried Plattner is to be credited or not, is a pretty question in the value of evidence. On the one hand, we have seven witnesses—to be perfectly exact, we have six and a half pairs of eyes, and one undeniable fact; and on the other we have—what is it?—prejudice, common sense, the inertia of opinion. Never were there seven more honest-seeming witnesses; never was there a more undeniable fact than the inversion of Gottfried Plattner’s anatomical structure, and—never was there a more preposterous story than the one they have to tell! - The Plattner Story by H.G Wells
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
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