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Continue reading →: Book Review – World War ZIt began with rumours—another pandemic with mysterious origins. Cases started to multiply until the planet was overrun with mindless, man-eating creatures. World War Z is tale of survivors and key players in the 10-year fight against the horde.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – The Dark HalfThad Beaumont, a critically acclaimed author, has been writing best-selling novels under the pseudonym George Stark. After a good run, Thad decides to publicly retire the pseudonym and starts writing under his own name again. But getting rid of his super-violent pulp thriller writing alter ego isn’t as easy as…
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Continue reading →: ARC Review – The Hummingbird Kiss: My Life as an Addict in the 1970sThrough this memoir, the author tells her story, that is, being a drug addict in the 1970s.
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Continue reading →: Nordic Noir NovelsNordic Noir is a subgenre of Crime Fiction. It’s also called Scandinavian crime fiction, as the novels are set in Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland). These novels usually revolve around murder, corruption, societal issues, and, more generally, the darker side of human nature. They are set in bleak…
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Continue reading →: Book Review – A Man Called OveAfter reading Anxious People (and falling in love with it), I decided to try another of Fredrik Bachman’s novels. Needless to say, I had high hopes for this novel. It didn’t disappoint, but it didn’t quite meet expectations, either.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – That Old Cape MagicJack and Joy are on the Cape to celebrate the wedding of their daughter Laura’s best friend. Being on the Cape drags up childhood memories for Jack, as it is where he used to vacation every year with his parents. As the past spills into the present, the cracks in…
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Continue reading →: Book Review – Before I Go to SleepChristine Lucas is an amnesiac. She’s incapable of either forming new memories or retaining old ones. Every time she goes to sleep, she forgets everything. But as Christine searches for a cure, things at home aren’t what they seem. The novel follows Christine’s search for her path and the truth,…
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Continue reading →: Book Review – Vernon SubutexVernon Subutex owned an infamous music shop in Paris, Revolver. He is quite a legend among the rock and roll crowd of the capital. Life seems to shine on him, or at least until the arrival of the Internet and the decline of CD and vinyl sales.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – DevolutionThis is the first-hand account of a Sasquatch Massacre after the eruption of Mount Rainier, Washington State, USA. It is a chilling tale of survival.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – Merging the DriftThe story follows the lives of four main characters, Ali, Kerri, Danny and Kitty, over a week. Ali is an inhabitant of the Drift, where people who died before their 18th birthday “live out” the rest of their existence. Kitty is a 17-year-old girl who lives with her mother. Kerri,…






