Follow You Home follows (see what I did there?) Daniel and Laura as they are wrapping up what is supposed to be a trip of a lifetime. After this, these thirty somethings are going to settle down, have a baby and live an uneventful but happy life in London. But you know what they say about best laid plans right? Yeah, everything pretty much goes to hell. The happy couple find themselves on a train travelling through Romania. There’s already a little tension because Daniel […]
Hello, Listeners
Hello, dear listeners fellow readers (even though we know the City Council has declared books to be Dangerous whether they are working or not) and Welcome to Night Vale.
The Coffee is Unusually Bitter.
Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee is frothy, mildly offensive (much like hyoscine), and formulaic. The miserly, inventive patriarch of the Amory family has called in Detective Poirot because he suspects someone in his family is attempting to steal a formula that is incredibly important. Poirot shows up, but not before the thief murders Sir Amory as well. There are xenophobic undertones, spy hijinks, bemused spinster aunts, and absolutely nothing of any note. Put together, the book’s parts are entirely underwhelming. Read the rest here!
Who gives a Helvetica
Clare Henry lives in Star City and works at a typewriter repair shop called The Rescued Word. She also repairs books and sells stationery (pens, animal note cards separated by region , yellow No.2 pencils and some fancy paper that can be personalized by Clare’s niece, Marion). An old family friend/regular customer, Mirabelle asks Clare to repair an old typewriter, but before Clare can fix it, some random guy comes in and demands the typewriter. Clare says no, calls the cops and random guy splits. […]
Guilty, no pleasure
It was an accident that I started reading “The Salaryman’s Wife” and ultimately not a happy one. My Goodreads queue includes a book called “The Pearl Diver,” and I searched for it on my library’s website to borrow digitally. What came up was the 8th book in a mystery series and without looking at the author’s name, I thought “damnit, my bad, better start at the beginning…” Damnit, my bad, indeed. This whole thing was such a monumental waste of time. The tropes are tedious. […]
Because No One Could Ever Forget Their Own Child, Could They?
“A few seconds had left a mark that would last forever. Nothing would ever be the same again. Everything was still and terrifyingly silent, as my mind lay trapped inside my limp body. Maybe people were rushing to help, or maybe no one came. I don’t know. All I do know is at that moment I stopped fighting for my life. At that moment, I stopped being me.” After a horrific car accident, Laura is trying to recover. She can no longer walk. She lost […]
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