Fiction
Books That Feel Like A Movie
You know when a book is so good you wish someone would just turn it into a movie already! When the writing is the perfectly crafted to point that you are not even reading words on pages anymore, you've been transported, and instead are watching the novel unfold in front of your eyes!
By The Austen Shelf2 years ago in BookClub
WE MUST GO FASTER THAN LIGHT!
Earth had an expanding interstellar empire; for decades they had been locked away, trapped inside their solar system, barely able to send manned spaceships beyond their closest neighbouring body. All they had sent into space since that point in their spacefaring history were probes and space stations.
By RobertFeld2 years ago in BookClub
Fletch and the Man Who
2024 is turning out to be a pretty ugly year. There is the continued war in the Middle East (when isn’t there one, you might say; so cynical), price inflation for basic food items (priceflation is an expression I will not use after completing this piece), there is the election noise of the various parties up here in my beloved Canada…and down below. Our parties seem to grow quickly, like mold in a basement. And I tend to wonder why there isn’t more growth in that noisy basement I refer to as the United States. I tend to ignore politics until it is trying to take more money out of my wallet, or asking me to care…or entertaining me on the page or screen.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in BookClub
Inked in Fire-A critique
With less than a hundred pages this novella welcomes you to their world through the story behind Major Sethraun's scar. His partner, Queen Caesia asks what led to the scar on his hip and despite his hesitancy informs her. She is the ruler of Erawoen and in a relationship with the Orc. He is grateful for their relationship despite their first encounter's unfavourable circumstances. He is unfamiliar with the ways of courtship and is teased about it but their time together proved useful. As the "King of comfort" who never wanted to leave their haven he braces himself to tell the story with a sensitive topic due to her persistence. He is not unwilling to share it with her, he is only unsure how to begin.
By Merritt Xavier2 years ago in BookClub
Rachel Reviews: Flappy Investigates by Santa Montefiore
I bought this book for my mum for Christmas and I could tell by the way that she halfheartedly thanked me that it was something which she had already read and something that she had not thoroughly enjoyed. Far be it from me to judge a book by its cover but I did with this one, in my bid to find something that would be well received, and plumping for this because of the tagline on the front: Fabulously fun and gorgeously gossipy.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in BookClub
Existence
What is success without plan goals and ambition, existence is cruel when you are not guided by an already crafted purpose or vision. Success best explain itself in accordance to what you feel success is or means to you, get a goal! There is no peak to being successful the higher you attain the more energetic you feel to attain more high ground. Being successful is like adding finishing touches to existence.
By Livinus Favour 2 years ago in BookClub
Audiobook Review: We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in rural Pennsylvania. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western - she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Everything changes when she discovers a shocking secret from her heavy metal past: Turns out that Terry's meteoric rise to success may have come at the price of Kris's very soul. This revelation prompts Kris to hit the road, reunite with the rest of her bandmates, and confront the man who ruined her life. It's a journey that will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a Satanic rehab center and finally to a Las Vegas music festival that's darker than any Mordor Tolkien could imagine. A furious power ballad about never giving up, even in the face of overwhelming odds, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul...where only a girl with a guitar can save us all.
By Marie Sinadjan2 years ago in BookClub
ESFP Nikolai Gogol's DEAD SOULS
Through the gates of the hotel in the gubernatorial city of NN entered a rather beautiful, modest, steel spring-suspended, horse-drawn carriage, in which unmarried men travel: retired lieutenant colonels, staff captains, estate owners possessing approximately a hundred peasant souls -- in short, all of those who are called the gentlemen of the middle class. In the horse-drawn carriage was seated a gentleman, not good-looking, but not bad-looking either, neither too fat, nor too thin; one could not say that he was old, but that's not to say that he was young. His arrival inside the city did not produce any hubbub whatsoever and was not accompanied by anything conspicuous; merely a couple of Russian peasants who stood outside the entrance of the tavern opposite the hotel, and who made some remarks that, incidentally, had more to do with the carriage than the man seated in it.
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR2 years ago in BookClub
