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Book Review: "Then She Was Gone" by Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell was an author I was introduced to through a book club as the read of the month was her novel The Family Upstairs. Deciding to participate less out of the fact that I wanted to read the particular book and more out of the fact that I needed something different to read - I ended up really enjoying it quite a bit. I was actually surprised how addicted I became to that particular book. It would be another year or so before I would read another book by Lisa Jewell, this time entitled The Night She Disappeared. I am not going to lie, but Lisa Jewell books never disappoint. I can definitely say the same about this one. A blend of psychological thriller, horror and domestic tragedy, Lisa Jewell explores the deep intricacies of what makes us human - whether we are good or bad.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Mutiny on the Bounty" by John Boyne
"April 28, 1789: The real-life mutiny that inspired John Boyne's novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, took place aboard the HMS Bounty 224 years ago today. Half the ship's crew, seduced by several months of good life on Tahiti, rose up against Captain William Bligh. Some of the mutineers' descendants still live on Pitcairn Island”
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
My Top 50 Books of 2023
As we step into 2024, I would like to say one thing - I have had a great time reading over the course of 2023 and though I have only been back here since around July, I would still like to share all of the great books I have been reading over the course of the entire year. It has been a tough year for me and the following year is not about to get any easier. Stressful, upsetting in some cases and horrific in others - I often escape into books because well, let's just say I'm not a people person, or a reality person, in fact by this point I'm not even sure I'm a person. 2023 has given me some really good books to get me through some really horrid times and here are the 50 that I think have been the best this year.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Top 5 Marvel's Female Characters
Hey there, fellow comic geeks! We are going to discover the top five leading ladies of Marvel Heroes, a company that has many amazing heroines. Let us then travel on a journey to discover these unruly female characters that provide energy and show-time in the Marvel world!
By Alexandra Karson3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Mysterious Mr Badman" by W.F Harvey
As of yet, The British Library is still undergoing a massive reset over their recent cyberattack. Their services have been breached and the data stolen. It is as of yet, unresolved and continues to leave an uncertain future about the culture surrounding hacktavism. However, thankfully the books have been left untouched and therefore, my avid reading of The British Library Crime Classics and its horrific sister The British Library Tales of the Weird can continue. The British Library Crime Classics publication of this relatively unknown piece of British Crime Golden Again literature comes as a surprise as I have neither heard of the book nor the author.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Politics on the Edge" by Rory Stewart
Britain was now, perhaps had always been, a place in hectic motion. A country that we were told had closed its industries and gone big into banking. A place that was now gambling on a new existence outside the European Union, and a closer relationship with China, at a time when the old political orders seemed ever more fragile, and energy security and food security ever less secure. An economy 80 per cent based on elusive intangible services; buoyed by an improbable housing bubble, and entirely dependent for its health and care on immigrants, whom citizens seemed to wish to exclude
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese
“Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I’ve lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school. Ahab, Queequeg, Ophelia, and other characters die on the page so that we might live better lives.”
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Beneath the Earth" by John Boyne
John Boyne is, as I have said before, one of this century's greatest writers. His ability to transform a situaiton from being two-dimensional to being three-dimensional is astounding. In one of my recently read books by him called Water, we encounter a woman who has moved to an island and changed her name in order to escape a past life where at first we think she is completely the victim - as the story moves along though we realise that it is much more complicated than that. In another one of his books I recently read entitled Crippen, we meet a flock of people sailing from Antwerp on a luxury ship - one of them on board is a murderer, another is in disguise and not everyone is who we think they are. As we delve into the past, the situation becomes even more complex when we meet a woman named Cora and her friend, Mrs Smythson. In this text called Beneath the Earth, we encounter something even weirder - John Boyne's short fiction. I am very much looking forward to this.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
My Buffy the Vampire Slayer Ranking
Due to streaming this show has garnered a new fan base over the years since it’s aired and as someone who has watched this show in real time, it’s pretty cool to see that it still has its place. So obviously I’m only gonna focus on the seasons that aired and not the seasons that were written in comic form although I’ve read about what happened in those seasons and it would’ve been pretty cool to see that on TV but I’m sticking to the original show. I heard about them trying, to reboot this show a couple years ago. I don’t think that’s gonna happen anymore but if it ever did, I wonder how they would develop it. Or how the show would feel amongst a new generation. This is just my opinion it’s not meant to be the end all be all. So if anyone disagrees, then that’s fine you can make your own list if you want.This is just the way I see each season, so just have fun with it!
By Travis Johnson3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Lord Jim at Home" by Dinah Brooke
The only real reason I went for this book is because I heard there was an introduction by Ottessa Moshfegh. Ottessa Moshfegh at the moment, is probably one of my favourite living writers and so, everything recommended by her must thereforebe taken into consideration for my TBR. But then again, I am not going to lie when I say it has been sitting on my TBR for a long while now. I only got around to reading it recently when I heard that it was available on Kindle. For the life of me, I do not know why I didn't check before.
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Very Cold People" by Sarah Manguso
“In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness seemed deliberate, as if they were dancing. Their skirts brushed slowly against their knees as they swayed. It wasn't so much that they looked different; they just looked as if they knew they were being watched.”
By Annie Kapur3 years ago in Geeks
Time And Space: The Beauties Of Reading A Star Wars Novel
It's not exactly an outrageous of a claim to make that books are always going to be a bit of an afterthought in the Star Wars franchise. Granted, that there have been some great ones and, at this point, it is also clear that this universe is open for all kinds of stories (as long as they are helmed by people who get it). However, at it's core, it's still a franchise that started out as a passion project for one of the greatest visual storytellers of our time. One that has been praised for its sights and sounds at least as much as it has for its mythos and story. I mean, it's a grand space opera, that was literally born to mantra "Faster, more intese."
By Art-Peeter Roosve3 years ago in Geeks
