“As much as you love them, dreams are just dreams,” (Lee 26). Unremembered and unknown to us when we awaken lies a store in our subconscious: The Dallergut Dream Department Store. Inside customers find a variety of options from dreams from childhood to living the life of another person, nightmares, mysterious dreams, dreams that stick and …
On Monday it was raining, absolutely pissing outside. My room faces the east and I’ve always liked that when there’s a storm I’m the first to hear it. Waking up to the rain wasn’t a bad thing, only shocking because I had fallen asleep to it the night before. I wasn’t expecting all the rain. …
I’m very grateful to the Literary Review of Canada for reaching out to me to review Sarah Henstra’s newest novel The Lost Tarot. Read my full review on their Substack, Bookworm!
“I wish I imagined things less. I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t. I do think I am capable of doing something bad…I’m worried that at any moment, I am liable to be taken over by my parasite, and that I will hurt someone,” (Austin 43). Enid’s trying her best. She’s reconnecting with her estranged …
I’m very grateful to the Literary Review of Canada for reaching out to me to review Secret Sex ed. by Russell Smith. Read my full review on their website, or in print!
I received this book from The Next Best Book Club in exchange for an honest review. “The truth is, the truth is, the truth is, I am fertile with pain,” (Robinson 53, “The Rabbits”). The Ill-Fitting Skin is a fantastic short story collection! Most of the stories follow women in various stages of their lives: mothers, partners, young …
“The truth is I hate keep secrets. I always have. All they really do is tear people apart,” (Derrick 1). Eighteen-year-old Stevie and Nora have a deep, true, heart-stopping kind of love, and they also have a plan. In just a few weeks they’re going to leave their ultra-conservative town and their parents and move to …
“Forgetting was just another way of leaving, and everybody left eventually,” (Jackson 289). Sixteen-years-ago Rachel Price vanished, leaving her two-year-old daughter Bel in the backseat of their car with no memories of who took her. Now eighteen, Bel is a part of a documentary talking about the case and how Rachel’s disappearance has affected her, though …
A few weeks ago I bought a notebook at a local witch store. I’d admired it online for awhile but could never bring myself to buy it because the shop is in the U.K. which meant I’d have to deal with exchange rates and shipping. The cover of the notebook shows a brown rabbit circled with stars …
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “To grieve is to rot from the inside out,” (Pedersen). Estranged from his family for twenty-years, Nick Morrow returns to Stag Crossing, his family’s farmhouse in rural Nebraska, after receiving a call from his abusive father telling him he’s dying. But Nick isn’t the only …
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