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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Aug 24, 20171 min read
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
Aug 1, 20174 min read
My inspiration for Broken Mirror #2 Jagged Jaws
Today (Aug 1) is the release day for my short story collection, Broken Mirror and Other Morbid Tales. To celebrate and explain the...
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carmillavoiez
Jul 31, 20174 min read
My inspiration for Broken Mirror #1 Cracked
Tomorrow (Aug 1) is the release day for my short story collection, Broken Mirror and Other Morbid Tales. To celebrate and explain the...
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carmillavoiez
Jul 27, 20172 min read
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 29, 20172 min read
Twin Peaks, The Return. Episode 8, WTF
Twin Peaks What is going on? Episode seven was the most coherent story-based episode we’ve been treated to in the new season of Twin...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Psychonaut the graphic novel, Kickstarter and release update
Back in March I wrote that we would start the Kickstarter fund raiser in June or July. Anna and I underestimated how long colour images...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 5, 20173 min read
Twin Peaks, the mysteries and the silence
I've never watched a television show before that has used silence with such bravery. At times the silence seems too long and intense to...
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carmillavoiez
Jun 2, 20171 min read
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
Jun 1, 20171 min read
A Brief History in Photos 2000 - 2016
In the prime of my life (46 is prime of life now, right?) I look back at my adventures and realise how lucky I've been with friends and...
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carmillavoiez
May 30, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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 14, 20172 min read
An Open Letter to my Ex's Ex
I'm sorry. You tried to warn me and I refused to listen. He told me you were jealous and my genitals convinced me to believe him even...
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carmillavoiez
May 11, 20172 min read
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
May 9, 20174 min read
Broken Mirror preview
This summer I'll be releasing my second collection of short stories, Broken Mirror and Other Morbid Tales. Thirteen tales of the macabre...
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carmillavoiez
May 3, 20173 min read
American Gods, Starz, Episode 1
What can I say? This show is true to an amazing book by Neil Gaiman. Stylistically it's intense with blood splatter as a medium for great...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 30, 20172 min read
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 28, 20174 min read
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
Apr 25, 20172 min read
Bates Motel, finale, Season 5 Episode 10
Dream a little dream of me. (Contains spoilers) It doesn't have to be over if you wish hard enough. Romero and Norman arrive at Norma's...
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carmillavoiez
Apr 24, 20174 min read
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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