BEAT PROCRASTINATION
A 30-Day ChallengeHEY WRITER, do struggle with procrastination? Yeah, I thought that might be the case. But no worries, I have a series of articles that could change your life. First off, you’re not alone. Everyone procrastinates from time to time. Avoidance is a natural way to protect ourselves from stress, pain, fear,…
ADOW: THE FIRST DATE
OK, LET ME START by making it very clear that this is not a review. This is a summary of A Discovery of Witches (ADoW), the TV-series based on the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. The following are my initial comments based on our first date. In the first…
VAMPIRES 101
VAMPIRES 101: What do we know to be true about vampires? Well, that probably depends on how many vampire stories we have digested in our lifetime. Some stories make vampires seem real. Almost. And others make them seem rather ridiculous. Yes, I’m looking at you now, Twilight. I hadn’t even…
TWILIGHT SAGA
– THE FIRST DATEOkay, let me start by saying this is not a review. This is a summary of the film, and my initial...
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE FALLEN SERIES
It was my initial study of Shadowhunters and nephilim that lead me to this film, and I decided to add it...
SHORTLISTED BOOKS SPRING 2020
I want to understand: a) What is a good story?; and b) What makes a story bad? I’d also like to know if...
LET’S TALK SHADOWHUNTERS
The Shadowhunters series is based in New York; and, just like Twilight and A Discovery of Witches...
VAMPIRE
STORIES TBRI’ve listed all the titles we have so far in a list sorted from A to Z. It's not an exhaustive list and I'd be grateful...
READING: LET’S TALK A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
I nearly skipped this one until I heard it was like Twilight if Bella had a degree, and Edward actually was interesting…
LET’S TALK: WHAT DOES FANTASY MEAN TO YOU?
It gets a bad rep among literary snobs, but fantasy fiction is such a versatile genre it can, literally, be about anything...