Trigger Warnings: rape, sexual assault, family, friendship and relationship drama. UK Paperback Cover Mulholland High School, where pretty teenage girls meet pretty teenage boys, and you can always expect drama when it’s the setting for one of the most popular reality shows. The ‘it girl” of the show, Chole Winterheaven, is the mean teen asContinueContinue reading “Mulholland High: The Reality in Reality TV”
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Shakespeare meets Mean Girls
If you are a William Shakespeare nerd like me or a favor Teenage Ron-Coms then you need to give this retelling or should I say mashup a try. Take Shakespeare’ Much Ado About Nothing and Tina Fey’s script Mean Girls. Kindle Unlimted Cover Ebook So I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t studyContinueContinue reading “Shakespeare meets Mean Girls”
You can Fall in Love with Tech, but it’s not true love. Is it?
A complex world of A.I. Systems comes alive as a robot, but what happens when you’re human and trained to work for the Government? Audiobook Cover via Audible Do you know the typical love story? Boy meets girl, girl meets boy, or girl meets girl or boy meets boy. They fall in love and headContinueContinue reading “You can Fall in Love with Tech, but it’s not true love. Is it?”
The First Strike: A Cuckoo comes Calling
Trigger Warnings: Murder, talk of homelessness, suicide, terminal illness, relationship issues, and adaption. Ok, I have a confession. I haven’t watched any of the TV series on which the books are based off. Who knows, I might read all the books and then watch the series. Audiobook Cover via Audible. Cormoran Strike is my newContinueContinue reading “The First Strike: A Cuckoo comes Calling”
Foot in the Grave
Trigger Warnings: Use of guns, stalking, suicide, kidnapping, murder, loss of a loved one, marriage/relationship breakdown, and sexual assault. It was the early nineties when she drove my truck away from that shooting contest. My sister was part of my boyfriend’s plan to take me out to dinner, and to ask the important question anyContinueContinue reading “Foot in the Grave”
Falling in Love is Full of Ups, Downs & Landslides
The parents are now divorced and mum no longer believes in love. Well, not the love for a man. More like a love for sugar. Audiobook Cover via Google Play Mum set up a bakery after we all moved to an apartment. It seemed all she did from the morning, noon, and till night wasContinueContinue reading “Falling in Love is Full of Ups, Downs & Landslides”
A Spoonful of Sugar? How about A Spoonful of Murder?
Trigger Warnings: Dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, murder, frauduary, and relationship difficulties. Audible, audiobook cover It’s always tragic when a friend and former coworker has Dementia, but when their life savings are stolen, could anything be worse? It seems for Topsy, things can. I don’t know about you, but the one thing I fear the most is forgettingContinueContinue reading “A Spoonful of Sugar? How about A Spoonful of Murder?”
Behind the Curtain of Glenda Young’s ‘Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel’
Triggering content to do with relationships, grief, talk of homelessness and drugs, plus murder. Introducing Carmen Delray. Star of TV’s ‘The Singing Nurse’ and as Wendy ‘Songbird’ Wren; Delray will appear as the leading lady in Chester Ford’s “Midnight with Maude” coming soon to the Scarborough’s Modernist Theatre. “I have no wish to dig herContinueContinue reading “Behind the Curtain of Glenda Young’s ‘Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel’”
Kia is me in The Trouble with Gravity #3
Yes, I’ve started this series backward, and no, I didn’t realize it before reading the book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read in 2022 Although I feel it best to read book series chronologically, I think K.K. Allen’s Gravity series doesn’t have to be; helpful, but not essential. “Dance wasn’t just the execution of perfectly timed steps. Dance wasContinueContinue reading “Kia is me in The Trouble with Gravity #3”
Back to Manga: The Ancient Magus Bride, Volume 1
A creature with a skull for a head purchases an orphan with no penny to her name. Chise Hatori is troubled by visions and is sold as a slave. Chise soon discovers she’s been sold to an inhuman mage – a wizard who isn’t human. She’s rapidly spun into a world where the magic’s aroundContinueContinue reading “Back to Manga: The Ancient Magus Bride, Volume 1”