The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters - a review
I loved this book. I am a fan of Sarah Waters, but even so this is my favourite book of hers I've read so far, even though there was a...
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Apr 21, 20182 min read
Incarnate, Ramsey Campbell - a review
Ramsey Campbell wrote the first horror novel that I fell in love with. I was a teenager when I first read that one and it stayed with me....
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carmillavoiez
Apr 17, 20183 min read
Reading as a Writer
In order to write well, one needs to read. The pressure on writers to produce a huge back catalogue if they are to have any chance to...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 10, 20182 min read
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Paulo Coelho - a review
Too often we encounter a thing of beauty at the wrong time in our lives and its layers of splendour and meaning are lost on us. Yesterday...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 5, 20182 min read
The Art of Dreaming, Carlos Castaneda - a review
Magic and perception are two of my special interests, so this book might easily have been written for me. As well as providing an...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 11, 20182 min read
On the Suffering of the World, by A Schopenhauer - a review
What to say about this book? Well the first thing to say was I almost didn't finish it. Parts of it made me spit with fury. Schopenhauer...
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carmillavoiez
Mar 10, 20181 min read
Mujeres Libres vs Liberal Feminism
“Free Women of Spain” by Martha Ackelsberg made me consider my own relationship towards mainstream feminism or white liberal feminism,...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 22, 20182 min read
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami - a review
I’ve raved about Haruki Murakami before, but I can’t help it. I’m a fan girl. “A Wild Sheep Chase” was the first of Murakami’s novels...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 16, 20183 min read
Brief thoughts on "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami
After finishing Philip Pullman’s book about writing I returned to Haruki Murakami’s. Either I misremember picking up this book and...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 13, 20182 min read
Daemon Voices, by Philip Pullman - a review
I have a soft spot for books about the craft of writing, so when I saw “Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling” by Philip Pullman I knew I...
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carmillavoiez
Feb 12, 20181 min read
Trigger Warnings in Literature with Marie Krammer
Today, on Indie beginnings Marie and I discussed whether trigger warnings have a place in works of fiction and discussed some of the...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 27, 20183 min read
Thirteen Ways To Midnight, by Rue Volley - a review
I hadn’t planned to start reading this book until next month, but Schopenhauer pissed me off and it was a welcome distraction. 13 Ways to...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 3, 20182 min read
Witches Sluts Feminists, by Kristen J Sollee - a review
Witches Sluts Feminists is a slender volume. It positions itself as a primer on the connections between the three subjects in the title...
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carmillavoiez
Dec 29, 20172 min read
Ark of Souls, by Paul Grover - a review
My final book for 2017, a year in which I read and reviewed eighty books on Goodreads and a fair number here on my blog. So did the year...
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carmillavoiez
Dec 26, 20172 min read
The Willow Tree, by Bekki Pate - a review
It’s a fascinating book, although I suspect I know barely a fraction of what the story is about at the end of part one of the trilogy....
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carmillavoiez
Dec 21, 20173 min read
The Twenty Days of Turin, by Giorgio de Maria - a review
Originally published in the 1970s and recently translated into English, Giorgio de Maria’s short novel “The Twenty Days of Turin” is...
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carmillavoiez
Dec 15, 20171 min read
Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti - a review
“He showed them the way into the nightmare, but he could not show them the way out…” Thomas Ligotti. “More a singer than a writer,” was...
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carmillavoiez
Dec 11, 20174 min read
Science, Magic and Time Travel in Netflix’s Dark
The premise of Dark is that every 33 years there is a solar and lunar alignment and that time travel is possible between those moments....
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carmillavoiez
Dec 4, 20172 min read
Dance of the Butterfly, by Scott Carruba - a review
Dance of the Butterfly is set in an unnamed city in central Europe. It is a place where organised crime, represented by the cruel and...
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carmillavoiez
Nov 18, 20172 min read
Consider Her Ways and Others, by John Wyndham, a review
A friend of mine, a fellow author, on learning about the concept of my work in progress – Venus Virus, sent me this book – just in case....
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