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Morte D’Urban by JF Powers
J.F Powers' debut novel was published in 1962 by Doubleday, before this the author was known for his short stories criticising Catholicism in the American Midwest. Thomas Merton called it “a valid and penetrating study of the psychology of a priest in what is essentially a spiritual conflict..." whereas other critics gave it the thumbs-up for being a great 'workplace saga' with a great amount of wit to wrestle with.
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Watching John" by Christina Patterson
I saw this book on Facebook Reels, I know it's a new one for me. Immediately I was kind of interested because I was thinking about my next psychological thriller read anyway. I mean, what harm could it do? As long as it didn't shake me like Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry which absolutely terrified the living shite out of me, I'm sure I was going to be okay. Reader, this is a lie. I am not okay. Some of the themes in this book are pretty heavy. You have been warned.
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
The Big Book Review: "The Big Screen" by David Thomson (Pt.1.5)
Read part 1 above... *** Welcome back to the second part of the first section of The Big Screen by David Thomson. My decision to split these two sections of the same part up came from the simple thinking that the first article of this book review series got a bit long and, at almost 5'500 words I don't think you would read it all if it were any longer. I can't make it too much shorter either because this is called the big book review after all. It's not called big for no reason. So there you go, there's my introduction.
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Bog Queen" by Anna North . Top Story - July 2026.
Now this is a book I'd seen on my Amazon Recommendations list and as of writing this, I think it was £2.99 and so, I didn't think much about just buying it and seeing what it was about. I had recently read Greater Sins, a book about a preserved dead body being found in a mossy area with nobody having any idea of how it got there and yet, it is older than anyone thinks. Things begin to turn sour as the town suspects that they should've left things buried. In this book, we have a relatively similar premise in which a dead body is found preserved in a mossy area. But instead of poor townsfolk finding it, we have a whole new story filled with professionals who want to find out how and why this woman died - and what she's even doing there. I mean, they were looking for a different dead body from 50 years' ago - not one from 2'000 years' ago...
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Old Soul" by Susan Barker
Susan Barker's imagination for creating this book is something to be admired. From what, on the outset just feels like Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, turns into something else entirely. When Jake meets Mariko she starts to talk about the death of her twin brother, Hiroji, and how before he died he had stated that he had seen a higher-dimensional being. As she talks and talks, she comes to his cause of death: heart defect. When Jake asks whether his organs were the wrong way around - Mariko shouts at him, demanding to know how he could know that about her dead brother. It's clear: Jake couldn't. But some things have happened before and will happen again...
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
Wonder Woman Is Bigger Than Any Actor
Wonder Woman has stood for values like justice, compassion, and courage for over 80 years. As a key figure in DC, she ranks among the publisher's most iconic heroes, alongside Batman and Superman. So, when Peter Safran and James Gunn began their overhaul of the DC Universe, fans asked a central question: when will Diana Prince return?
By Jenna Deedy3 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "I'd Rather Be Reading" by Anne Bogel
Is there a better and more fitting title for a book? I think not. In the introduction, Anne Bogel talks of the way you need to know the person before you start recommending them great books since great means something different to each person and perhaps, one person's 'great' is not someone else's. She takes us through what it means to 'confess' as a reader and as something I have taken as a personal attack even goes to stating that there are people out there who don't enjoy James Joyce as much as they perhaps should (there will be no way in Hell that anyone could force me to read Finnegans Wake again, I am so sorry but I hate it with all my soul). So, what else awaits us in this book?
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "A Short Stay in Hell" by Steven L. Peck
I've gone and done it again! I've bought a book because the internet would not stop recommending it to me. A Short Stay in Hell is exactly what it says it is...short. At little over 100 pages, it makes for light reading. The book opens with a bit of a ramble from our narrator - we don't know too much just yet and then, he decides to give us some backstory. There are five people sitting in a room with the Zoroastrian equivalent of Satan and they have all been condemned to that religion's version of hell - which is one that thankfully for them, you can get out from. But our narrator has been stuck there for eons...and eons...for billions of years according to him... in a library which is endless.
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
