England's Hidden Reverse, David Keenan - a review
Photo : Tibet and Stapleton, 1991. (photo Ruth Bayer) England’s Hidden Reverse is an impressive, illustrated, hard backed volume coupled...
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carmillavoiez
- Aug 31, 2017
- 2 min
Slade House, David Mitchell - a review
Slade House is a strange little book. The start is very strong, the middle is repetitive and the end feels like a tagged on battle of...
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carmillavoiez
- Aug 24, 2017
- 1 min
Hagseed, Margaret Atwood - a review
Publisher: Vintage (3 Aug. 2017) ISBN-10: 0099594021 I’ve been looking forward to the paperback release of Hagseed for a long time, and...
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carmillavoiez
- Jul 27, 2017
- 2 min
Swing Time, Zadie Smith - a review
Swing Time is a beautiful novel that transcends borders. It is set in London, where the main character was born, New York and a village...
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 2, 2017
- 1 min
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
I am not sure why I came to this book so late. The Haunting of Hill House is a wonderful novel. Four people gather together in a...
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carmillavoiez
- May 30, 2017
- 2 min
The Winged Bull by Dion Fortune, ritual magic, racism and misogyny
The title “The Winged Bull” refers to a ritual and the hero of the story, Murchison. Murchison is engaged by Brangwyn to help cure his...
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carmillavoiez
- May 24, 2017
- 1 min
The Goddess Chronicle, Natsuo Kirino, a review
Natsuo Kirino is an angry young woman. I understand and appreciate that in an author. I read her crime thriller "Out" before and...
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carmillavoiez
- May 11, 2017
- 2 min
Out, Natsuo Kirino, a review
Natsuo Kirino doesn't just write crime. She transports us to urban Japan where four working class women face off against a crime boss and...
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carmillavoiez
- Apr 30, 2017
- 2 min
Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Haruki Murakami
I wish I could write books like Haruki Murakami, where the real and the unreal bleed into one another. The mundane seems extraordinary...
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carmillavoiez
- Apr 24, 2017
- 4 min
Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, and the interpretation of texts
Foucault's Pendulum demonstrates the earth's rotation around a fixed point. From this premise Umberto Eco created an intricate novel,...
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carmillavoiez
- Apr 6, 2017
- 2 min
The Grotesquerie, a book review
The Grotesquerie is a collection of 22 short stories by various authors celebrating women in horror. I bought it because the editor Eden...
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carmillavoiez
- Apr 5, 2017
- 1 min
Piercing by Ryu Murakami, a review
I've had a bit of a Ryu Murakami fest this week. His books are so quick to read yet they chill me to the bone. Ryu Murakami's antagonists...
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carmillavoiez
- Apr 2, 2017
- 2 min
Audition by Ryu Murakami, a review
Audition by Ryu Murakami I watched the movie directed by Takashi Miike some years ago. I remember it moved very slowly at first, lulling...
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carmillavoiez
- Mar 29, 2017
- 8 min
Dystopia, our dystopia
I read four novels “It Can't Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis (published in 1935), “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (published in 1932),...
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carmillavoiez
- Mar 20, 2017
- 1 min
The Scarlet Gospels, Clive Barker, a review
Clive Barker is a genius. Hellbound Heart, the Puzzle Box and Pinhead have influenced numerous horror writers to create new and fantastic...
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carmillavoiez
- Mar 18, 2017
- 2 min
The Sadist's Bible, by Nicole Cushing, a review
This intensely disturbing novella has three narrators each of whom are probably unreliable, but this does nothing to hamper Cushing's...
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carmillavoiez
- Mar 9, 2017
- 5 min
Song of the Death God, by William Holloway, a book review
I was sent an advance copy of Song of the Death God by the publisher in exchange for a review. The book is to be released late April...
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carmillavoiez
- Mar 7, 2017
- 2 min
NOS 4R2, by Joe Hill, a book review
The yellow sticker on the front claimed this would be the most terrifying book I will read this year. I tend to be terrified by more...
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carmillavoiez
- Feb 28, 2017
- 2 min
Felidae, by Akif Pirincci, a book review
There exist books that can show us deep truths about the human condition using animals as protagonists. Watership Down, Animal Farm and...
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carmillavoiez
- Feb 25, 2017
- 2 min
Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt, a book review
Mr Splitfoot is a gorgeous and rich fantasy story set in contemporary America but managing a very old-world feel. It was listed in Barnes...
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