The Night Brother, Rosie Garland - a review
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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...
carmillavoiez
- Jan 23, 2019
- 5 min
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
- Oct 14, 2018
- 4 min
An Interview With Lilith – October Frights 2018
Lilith, is my female antagonist in The Starblood Trilogy. She is definitely a villain, although some have claimed she’s a feminist hero....
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 18, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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
- Mar 21, 2018
- 5 min
Writing Horror While Trying to Avoid Stereotypes
It’s not as easy as it sounds. While tropes, clichés and stereotypes might be easy to spot in others work, they can become embedded in...
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carmillavoiez
- Mar 11, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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
- Jan 3, 2018
- 2 min
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
- Nov 13, 2017
- 2 min
A Day to Forget
I was in court today. The wheels of justice move slowly and all that, and the event had happened six months before. I was a witness to...
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carmillavoiez
- Oct 11, 2017
- 10 min
Political Vampires, six days of October Frights, day two
Yesterday, for the October Frights blog hop I wrote about zombies, so today it's vampires. At the bottom of this post you'll find links...
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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
- Apr 28, 2017
- 4 min
The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu, episodes 1 - 3
Bag of shite! I had such high hopes for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. I loved Margaret Atwood's book when I read it years ago. I must read...
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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 10, 2017
- 2 min
Bonfire of the Vanities
I once said “The concept of beauty is the straight jacket of the soul”. While others disagreed at that time I am returning to the idea...
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carmillavoiez
- Feb 26, 2017
- 5 min
Slut Shaming & the Serial Killer
There is a time-honoured tradition in horror that youngsters who have sex will be the first to die and the last person standing will be...
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carmillavoiez
- Feb 23, 2017
- 6 min
A Day at the Races, short story
A while ago my writers' group was set a task to write an historic event through the eyes of a by-stander. This was my humble attempt. A...
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carmillavoiez
- Feb 3, 2017
- 21 min
Selkie - modern retelling
With illustrations by Deborah Blount. Selkie David sipped champagne, nestled between blonde twins on a leather couch in an exclusive...
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carmillavoiez
- Mar 13, 2016
- 2 min
Lilith's Brood, Octavia E Butler - a review
I thought for a long while that I didn't like sci-fi. I now realise that I just don't like white-male-centric sci-fi. I love this book...
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