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Jan 26, 20191 min read
The Night Brother, Rosie Garland - a review
Sometimes you are lucky enough to read exactly the right book at the right time. This was the case with "The Night Brother" and me. It...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 23, 20195 min read
Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici – a review
Anyone who knows me knows I have an interest in both magic and women’s rights, making me the ideal audience for this historical analysis...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 20, 20192 min read
The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor Lavalle – a review
I think Victor Lavalle sums up perfectly the intent of this novella in its dedication - “For H.P. Lovecraft, with all my conflicted...
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carmillavoiez
Jan 8, 20193 min read
The Weird, Various, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - a review
The most unique aspect of this book is the breadth and length of the collection. At 750,000 words it’s about the length of ten novels and...
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carmillavoiez
Oct 24, 20183 min read
Stonemouth, Iain Banks - a review
Disclaimer – I love Iain Banks. I love his spare use of vividly evocative description. Wasp Factory is one of my favourite reads of all...
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carmillavoiez
Aug 27, 20181 min read
Vastarien, Vol 1 - Issue 1, Grimscribe Press - a review
Wow! Just wow! This is a collection of short stories and academic essays inspired by the writings of Thomas Ligotti and pessimistic...
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carmillavoiez
Aug 26, 20182 min read
The Ruins, by Simon Smith - a review
“The Ruins” is the story of a group of Europeans who arrive in a hostile alien environment where the rules are very different and...
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carmillavoiez
Aug 8, 20181 min read
The Changeling, Victor Lavalle - a review
I have been really lucky this year and have read some wonderful books, but this book is my favourite so far. I came across it while...
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carmillavoiez
Jul 19, 20182 min read
Writers Beware the Dreaded Info Dump
As you would expect from a collection of short stories from the author of “Ring”, “Dark Water” by Koji Suzuki is a creepy read. Seven...
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carmillavoiez
Jul 1, 20181 min read
The Elementals, Michael McDowell - a review
I’m ashamed to admit that this was the first book by Michael McDowell that I’ve read. I asked friends and followers on Facebook to make...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 18, 20182 min read
Vixen, Rosie Garland - a review
This is the second book by Rosie Garland that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed both. They would be best described as dark fairy...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 11, 20182 min read
Sula, Toni Morrison - a review
The forward to this novel was fascinating in its own right. Toni Morrison describes how black fiction is unfairly judged on the basis of...
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carmillavoiez
May 30, 20182 min read
Circe, Madeline Miller - a review
I was given the hardback version of this book as a birthday present. It is beautiful to behold, shining like copper and looking like a...
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carmillavoiez
May 20, 20184 min read
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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carmillavoiez
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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