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Review | Wilder Girls

“It’s like that, with all of us here. Sick, strange, and we don’t know why. Things bursting out of us, bits missing and pieces sloughing off, and then we harden and smooth over.” Rory Power | Wilder Girls Salty air from the cliffs of Raxter Island used to ruffle the hair of wandering students from… Continue reading Review | Wilder Girls

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Review | Stephen King – IT

The month of October is finally upon us, and with it creeping fogs and cozy evenings spent with spooky stories. Most of the time, those stories are filled to the brim with witches and monsters, murder and cases of manslaughter. Or you dig up movies, tv shows and books that are all about magic, ghosts,… Continue reading Review | Stephen King – IT

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Review | ‘The Green Mile’ by Stephen King (1996)

“I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we’s comin from or goin to or why. I’m tired of people bein ugly to each other.… Continue reading Review | ‘The Green Mile’ by Stephen King (1996)

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Review | ‘Misery’ by Stephen King (1987)

[H]e had seen this look... or, more precisely, this unlook. The word which defined it was catatonia, but what frightened him had no such precise word – it was, rather, a vague comparison: in that moment he thought that her thoughts had become much as he had imagined her physical self: solid, fibrous, unchannelled, with… Continue reading Review | ‘Misery’ by Stephen King (1987)