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Taking it slower
I reached my 100th blog post just 2 weeks ago, and I am so happy about it. I really worked hard despite everything at making this blog more alive, sharing my ideas and interests and hopefully giving good advice to people looking for their next read. Now I’ll be taking things a little slower. Two […]
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What if Peter Pan came back and stole away Wendy’s daughter?
Wendy Darling by A.C. Wise is a great fantasy novel digging deeper into Neverland, trying to get to the whys and hows and falling into the dark depth of a world of innocence lost. I have read and seen a huge amount of works based of Peter Pan. While I will admit not liking the […]
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How to get back into reading?
Are you in one of those stages in your life when you can’t find the time to read? Are you missing books? Do you grieve for the intimacy of novels and their stories? Do you long for this time when you could crank up your imagination and live through the exciting lives of other people? If you […]
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Prisoner of her mother as a golden goose, can she really escape?
Constellations of Scars by Melissa Eskue Ousley is a fairytale retelling sitting uncomfortably between fantasy and thriller. I really wanted to love that one for quite a few reasons. One, I want to support independent writers, because the industry is hard and people should be able to choose their path. In this digital age, writers […]
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My top 7 cookbooks of 2020 and 2021
I love food. Always. I seek new flavours, new ways of understanding a dish, a meal, of looking at an ingredient, or reaching taste highs, of simplifying a process. I am addicted to bursts of flavour, sour and spicy, aromatic and exotic. I just love food. I love talking about it, seeing beautiful recipe pictures, […]
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Interview with Ashley Ruggirello to learn to eat like Dracula
I don’t know for you, but eating like a monster has always been a fascination. Fan-cookery books to try to recreate the foods of our favourite shows, book series or geek-culture is fun. And if there is a monster that keeps capturing our imagination, it must be the vampire. I knew I was in for […]
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If the world came together, and in one breath everyone spoke, this is what you’d hear
“One Line” written and illustrated by Ray Fawkes is a truly unique human experimental comic. This is the type you want to think about and hold in your hand, and try to read differently, going back and forth between the pages, testing out how far the comic medium can be stretched. I hadn’t known what […]
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How about a tale of love and jealousy in a fantasy land of the 1900s
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a fantasy romance novel set in a world reminiscent of 1900s France. It is all about high feelings, jealousy, missed opportunities and bad choices, very reminiscent of classic novels written in the late 1800s. When I saw it was the latest book from Moreno-Garcia I wanted to try. […]
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Looking for a cool comic about a girl with split personalities?
Elle(s), written by Kid Toussain and illustrated by Aveline Stokart is a beautiful YA comic book with a big mystery at its center. Is Elle, that fun new student, really a psychology case, or is she something more supernatural? We follow the journey of Elle as she arrives to a new school and makes friends, […]
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In a post-slavery fantasy novel, when will people be free to live the lives they’re meant to?
The Conductors, by Nicole Glover is fantasy mystery set in post-slavery America. The setting is so unusual that I immediately wanted to see where it was going and everything about this novel was a very welcome breath of fresh air, from the magic system to the take on the side romance. Of course I was […]
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Pearl Shockley 