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Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan The Watchers have a story centred in Ireland, and we meet people who have found themselves locked up in woods with mythical and dangerous creatures, the watchers who hunt humans during the night but sleep and hide during the day. I did not watch the previous iterations of this film, so…
Author: Jim Shepard Like You’d Understand, Anyway is a collection of short stories by Jim Shepard tackling the everyday life of various characters who live in various countries. The stories are not connected apart from several stories tackling the relationship between brothers. These elements are interesting because they often tackle hostility and jealousy between siblings.…
Director: Fred C. Rabbath The Final Pact is a new film by an independent director, Fred C. Rabbath, who also happens to be my favourite director (generally, not just the independent one). The Final Pact is a sci-fi/horror film that tackles biblical sin, temptation and exorcism. But this film is more than that. It is…
Author: Matt Haig The Humans is a sci-fi novel by Matt Haig, the author of the Midnight Library and How To Stop Time, both sci-fi books I enjoyed immensely. The Humans starts a bit slow, and I was not immediately engaged because of the somewhat psychopathic character of the alien who narrates the story and…
Author: Adelyn Birch As the title suggests, 202 Ways to Spot a Psychopath in Personal Relationships is a guide to recognizing a psychopath. The list of characteristics is compiled from some academic literature, e.g., Hare’s psychopathy checklist, as well as anecdotes and observations. The author, as per her biography, has been in a relationship with…
Author: David Nicholls The Understudy is a book by David Nicholls, and another one I re-read albeit with different eyes than when I read it the first time. It is a story of trying to succeed in an industry, which is not meant for people without connections. Interestingly, I started to read this just as…
Author: Kent A. Kiehl The Psychopath Whisperer is an incredible book. It uses scientific information and the research experience of the author and presents this information in an appealing way that anyone can understand. The book is thus useful to both academic and general audiences. I read this book after I read Jon Ronson’s book,…
Author: Jon Ronson I previously read Ronson’s book called ‘So, you’ve been shamed,’ which I used in some classes. I then purchased The Psychopath Test and some other books he wrote but never read them until now. The reason for reading this now probably lies in the fact I just finished binging two different Dexter…
Author: David Nicholls Sweet Sorrow is a book by David Nicholls, the author of One Day, my favourite book. Well, it was my favourite book, until I read this one. Now I am not so sure as I absolutely loved this book. One thing that Sweet Sorrow made me realise is that I resent British…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before We Forget Kindness is the fifth in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series. I blogged about previous books (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Café, Before Your Memory Fades, and Before We Say Goodbye). There is a new book that I pre-ordered on Amazon coming out next year.…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before We Say Goodbye is the fourth book in a series of Before the Coffee Gets Cold book series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I wrote blogs about the first three books, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Café, and Before Your Memory Fades. In Before We Say Goodbye, the story continues…
Author: Emily St John Mandel I read Station 11 a while ago and struggled to write a blog because so much can be said about it. To start with, what an incredible book! I love most books I read because I appreciate creativity, and I can usually find something good about most books. But Station…
Author: Kaliane Bradley The Ministry of Time presents an interesting take on time travel. Unlike conventional time travel books that focus on time travel per se, how it is done, what time travellers try to do to change history and/or how they fight to prevent history changes, parallel universe, etc., this book actually looks at…
Author: Plum Sykes The Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes is a trés good book, lol 😊 It is a book about New York society or Park Avenue princesses, as the author calls rich socialites and heiresses who form a part of the N.Y society, who largely focus their lives on attending and organising events and…
Author: Ann Napolitano Hello Beautiful is a modern take on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, just far better written and with less soppy stuff in writing, and certainly without historical behavioural differences, e.g., in Little Women there is an excessive patriarchal subordination to parents and elders, which does not happen in Hello Beautiful. Obviously, I…
Director: Tim Burton I watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last weekend in the cinema, in the D-BOX experience, which was the first time I watched a film like that. It goes without saying I loved having my chair shake every time something happened in the movie. As for the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice story, after a family tragedy, members…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before Your Memory Fades is the third book in the series, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I enjoyed the first two books and reviewed them, see here and here. Before Your Memory Fades continues with the time travel story of a café where people can come and travel in…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Tales from the Café is the second book in the series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I wrote about the first part here. Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Tales from the Café continues to follow stories from a café in Tokyo where people can come and…
Author: Erica Katz The Boys’ Club is a debut novel by Erica Katz, a pseudonym for a real-life lawyer who tells the story of a large law company from New York and the way new lawyers get socialised into a large, global, prestigious firm. Alexandra (Alex) is a fresh Harvard law school graduate who takes…
Director: Lee Isaac Chung Twisters is an American disaster film portraying a team of researchers, and tornado chasers, trying to chase tornadoes. The 2024 Twisters is a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 Twisters film. In 2024 Twisters, the research team is trying to find a way to dissipate tornadoes and make them smaller before they…
Author: Karla Gower The Betsy Plank book by Karla Gower, a Behringer distinguished professor at the University of Alabama and a director of the Plank Center for Leadership in PR formed by Betsy Ann Plank in collaboration with the university’s administration of the time, presents an interesting read about a PR woman who had a…