Image by Hugoslv It’s 9pm on Saturday night…all over the country, people are out in public, spending time with their friends, and their loved ones, propping up bars or crowding into restaurants, spilling out of cinemas and flocking along rain-slicked streets lit by sputtering neon. Couples stagger along streets, clutching at each other in their […]
#BookReview – Cobweb Bride
I first came across Vera Nazarian’s Cobweb Bride through a recommendation by Nerine Dorman, and I’m very glad I decided to follow this recommendation up. Book one in a trilogy, Cobweb Bride tells the story of an imaginary kingdom called Lethe, located somewhere in an alternate Renaissance Europe. Death appears, proclaiming he will take no […]
#FridayFlash – Keeping Watch
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[Film Review] Insidious Chapter 2
I’ll be upfront with you, I genuinely had no idea how James Wan intended to continue his 2011 film, Insidious. With the seeming possession of the main protagonist, Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson), the death of the psychic hired to help his son, and the house in confusion following an astral travelling jaunt into the Further […]
#BookReview – Traitors
I can’t believe it’s a year since I wrote a review of Carrie Clevenger’s Crooked Fang, but here I am again with my review of the novella-length follow-up, Traitors. Again narrated by sexy vampire bassist Xan Marcelles, Traitors picks up shortly after Crooked Fang. Xan is without a band, and bored in Pinecliffe, Colorado. The […]
Handknitted Notebook Cover
I’ve talked a bit about the new Twitter community I’ve found, #craftblogclub, which meets on Tuesday evening between 7 and 8pm UK time. Our fabulous founder, Emma Berry, set us all a creative challenge for September – I finished this last week but it’s taken me until now to post! Our challenge was to create […]
