Tag: Creative
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The Power of Kindness
An exploration of Kindness set again trauma and abuse
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When the Themes sneak up on you
A powerful exploration of race and family and duty set in a changing South Africa
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Making Absurd Tropes Believable
An analysis of how to make a really entertaining and compelling romcom
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Middle Book Syndrome
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse I loved the first book in this series Black Sun and have been waiting excitedly for more than 1 year to get a ebook copy of Fevered Sun. Sadly, on its own, its not really worth the wait. It suffers a solid case of second / middle book syndrome; it…
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An Uplifting Fairytale
Rhapsody: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The author tells us on the first page that Spinning Silver is about paying one’s debts. And maybe that is the moral of those fairytales, pay your debts or else, stay in your place or else. But this story is about so much more than that, its about reaching…
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It’s not as queer as they want you to think
Rant: Loki TV-Series by Marvel In a recent argument a friend insisted that Marvel’s Loki was queer-coded and I looked at her – on the basis of having watched maybe 3 Marvel movies in the last 10 years – in astonishment. So I recently paid my poundage and tuned into the Loki TV-series, mostly to…
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Gaimen is Over-rated
Gaimen is over-rated, a book rant about American Gods
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Can the Hero’s journey be reversed?
Reflections on: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters My writing teachers are big fans of the Hero’s Journey story structure. It is something that with a little prodding you can see just about anywhere and many books use this same basic structure. The protagonist starts in one place emotionally (intellectually) and by the end of…
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Dual Timelines – now I get it
Reflections: The Innocence of Roast Chicken by Jo-Anne Richards I hate dual timeline books. There is a ridiculous absurdity of WW2 stories featuring a dual timeline, all of which are remarkably similar – its so common its probably its own genre at this point. And I have never seen the point of it. It gives…
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Disclaimer
There will be Spoilers! These are not reviews, merely the reflections and occasional rants of a book lover