Annie Kapur
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English Lecturer
🎓Literature & Writing (B.A)
🎓Film & Writing (M.A)
🎓Secondary English Education (PgDipEd) (QTS)
📍Birmingham, UK
Stories (1968/0)
Book Review: "The Haar: A Horror Novel" by David Sodergren
Muriel Margaret McAuley was eighty-four years old the first time she saw a man turned inside-out by a sea monster. You might think it would bother a woman of her age, but, as Muriel was fond of saying, she had seen a lot in her eighty-four short years. - The Haar: A Horror Novel by David Sodergren
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson
I had been meaning to read this book for a while and so, on a train one day I decided I would pick it up from the travel shop along with a can of Red Bull. I spent the entire two hour train journey reading the book and managed, by the end of the journey to make it up to the middle of chapter four, or around just passed page 100-and-something. When I got to my destination, I continued to read the book for a bit and kept investing myself in all of these experiments and criticisms, these investigations and histories. It proved to be a really interesting book and so, you can tell already that this will be a positive review.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Why It's a Masterpiece...
Welcome to ‘Why it’s a Masterpiece’. This is a series of articles about books that are considered ‘masterpieces’ in our canon. I will attempt to keep it limited to modern classics or at least, only as far back as the 19th century just to make sure I can make it as accessible to as many people as possible. Also, just a quick note: this will be replacing the series of ‘The Greatest Movies Ever Made’ for a while (but not forever, I’m just trying to figure some stuff out at the moment in terms of the organisation of my publications on this site).
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Found" ed. by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias
Full Title: Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories edited by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias You all know how much I love horror and what better side-line to take from folk horror than urban legend horror and suburban horror? I found out about this book from my Amazon Recommendations after completing Mister Magic by Kiersten White, a book I am still pretty obsessed with. I downloaded it to my Kindle straight away but got caught up in reading the two novels by Herbert Lieberman that I published before this one. Apart from that, I have come back to my Kindle and found that I was missing out on some anthology reading. Despite having many anthologies in my Kindle library, I had to go to this one first as it was sitting around for the longest time out of all of them.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "City of the Dead" by Herbert Lieberman
April again. Burgeoning spring. Tax time and the month of suicides. Gone now are February and March, seasons of drowned men, when the ice of the frozen rivers melt, yielding up the winter's harvest of junkies, itinerants, and prostitutes. Soon to come are July and August--the jack-knife months. Heat and homicide. Bullet holes, knife wounds, fatal garrotings, a grisly procession vomited out of the steamy ghettos of the inner city. Followed by September--early fall--season of wilting vegetation, self guilt, and inexplicable loss. Battered babies with the subdural hematomas and petechial hemorrahages. Then October--benign, quiescent; the oven pavements of the city cooling while death hangs back a little while, prostrate from all the carnage. Only to rush headlong into November and December. The holiday season. Thanksgiving and the Prince of Peace. Suicides come forth again... - City of the Dead by Herbert Lieberman
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror" by Joyce Carol Oates
“In dreams sometimes it is like this. I am lying very still, my arms and legs are numb or paralyzed. There is a medical term—peripheral neuropathy. A tingling sensation in fingers and toes that moves upward bringing with it a loss of feeling, a spreading numbness, a kind of amnesia of the body.” - The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Crawlspace" by Herbert Lieberman
...facing the black square of the crawl, I had a sudden sensation that I was in a dream and that I’d dreamed the dream many times before. I saw myself entering the square—entering that cold, wet, dark place with the awful smell of sewage and human waste, the dry, hard ground crumbling, sinking beneath my feet, the straw pallet mouldering in the darkness... - Crawlspace by Herbert Lieberman
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Ghost Stories of M.R James" ed. by Roger Luckhurst
With formidable quickness it moved into the middle of the room, and, as it groped and waved, one corner of its draperies swept across Parkins's face. He could not—though he knew how perilous a sound was—he could not keep back a cry of disgust, and this gave the searcher an instant clue. It leapt towards him upon the instant, and the next moment he was half-way through the window backwards, uttering cry upon cry at the utmost pitch of his voice, and the linen face was thrust close into his own. - Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M.R James
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Phantom Thread (2017)
Introduction From: Pinterest Paul Thomas Anderson is no stranger to making films about neuroticism and narcissism and he is also no stranger when it comes to the meticulous work of Sir Daniel Day-Lewis. In his final film before retirement, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis brings the fashion designer Reynolds to life in a fantastic effort at creating one of the most charismatically crazy characters of the last 25 years of cinema. A blend of psychodrama, romance and high drama, Lesley Manville holds her own as the sister trying to keep this man well grounded, the backbone to the whole movie. As for Vicky Krieps, she is the only person who could match the level of intensely thrilling and passionate that Sir Daniel brought to the film himself.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Jigsaw Murders" by Jeremy Craddock
This happens to be one of the strangest books I have read this year so far. I have had it for a while and I have only just read it. The reason for this is because I had so much other stuff to read and honestly, I didn't know I wanted to read about a doctor who went around doing murder since that time a few years' back when I decided to read about Harold Shipman for some unknown reason.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
A Bookstore Review: Queer Lit, Manchester
I have been to Manchester recently, staying with my brother and hanging out with pals. I was looking for a bookshop that could entice me and make me want to sit down and take it all in. Then I found the Queer Lit bookshop. Serving up coffee and cocktails, it is the largest LGBTQ+ bookshop in Europe. With an incredible atmosphere of plants and a decor that whispers instead of shouts, it is beautiful bookshop in central Manchester that actually appeals to people who read. Let’s go through the things that I loved and noticed about this bookshop.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Strangers" by Taichi Yamada
This book was part of my Amazon Recommendations and though I have heard of the author before, I will be taking this as one of my random books of the week by an author I have never read before. The truth is, I have actually been meaning to read this author for about a year, but have never got around to it. I know that this book has been made into a film but even though the book was fairly good, I have no intention of actually watching the movie. This is not out of any dislike, I just do not want to start any new TV shows and films at this moment in time. Perhaps I will someday and then, I will let you know how good it is in comparison to the book.
By Annie Kapur2 months ago in Geeks