triggers – Cannonball Read 17

This is a HORROR book for adults

The Ecstasy of Agony by James "Wrath" White

July 14, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had been debating about finishing The Ecstasy of Agony by James “Wrath” White after the fifth or so story/chapter. I was reading it online and that was answered for me when my link expired. I have been working on it slowly for at least all of 2023 so far (if not started late 2022) so it did not surprise me I had timed out. But the reason I was not too excited with it was that White’s book is a collection of horror works. […]

When “Crank it up” doesn’t mean the music

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

October 20, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Ellen Hopkins is a thoughtful and interesting writer. They have a style with their prose poetry that can be both a pull, drawing you into the story and be a bit confusing as they will shape poems to fit the mood of the theme and/or point of the poem itself. The mayhem of the life, feeling or event Hopkins wants to show you is not easy, yet Hopkins handles it with a respect to the reader and subject. Crank could have had more to it, […]

I Feel Very Alone in My Opinion

May 9, 2018 by Melina 2 Comments

When one of your favorite people (Anne Lamott) tells People magazine that she, “gobbled it up in one sitting” and you slogged through the book trying to figure out what “good writing” Lamott was talking about, you feel badly about things. I feel badly about myself. It’s like why do I suck so much? But hey, maybe this book isn’t for me. Maybe the movie coming out with Nicole Kidman will strike the nerve that the book did not do for me. Maybe. Maybe I’m […]

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