The thumbnail for this one is shortened to “Haunted House Books”, but it’s really called “Something Isn’t Right About This House” Books. These don’t all necessarily deal with houses that have classic ghosts or things that go bump in the night, but they all deal with houses where something is just off, and the residents know…
I’ve been making reels lately over on my Instagram, and—I’m woman enough to admit when I was wrong—it’s actually been a lot of fun. I’d forgotten my love for the video format and video editing, and this is a small way to delve back into it. But the only problem with reels is, at the…
Post-breakdown of society/post-“apocalyptic” books have always been a favorite subgenre of mine. It’s less that it’s the end of the world entirely, and more that it’s the end of the world as we know it. Following characters as they take on an entirely new landscape—or perhaps hellscape—of what’s left of humanity after everything they think…
The Counselors, by Jessica Goodman, comes out in just over one month and is full of summer camp killer vibes, interesting characters that you can’t quite pin down, and a twisted mystery that will keep you guessing. The Counselors follows junior camp counselor, Goldie, an eighteen-year-old who has been affiliated with Camp Alpine Lake for nearly…
It may only be April, but vacation season will be upon us soon. While you start planning your summer trip, let’s take a quick look at some of the best worst-case-scenario vacation books on my shelf. Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Echo was one of my most recent reads after Johnathan surprised me with a copy…
Many of us lovers of all things spoopy basically consider late July/early August the beginning of spoopy season (basically whenever Halloween themed merch starts hitting the shelves at At Home, it’s on, right?), so if you’re looking for thematically appropriate reads before October, you’re in luck: Penguin Teen has two spooky new books coming out…
Burden Falls was a fun mix between traditional thriller and supernatural. Penguin Teen describes it as “Riverdale meets The Haunting of Hill House”, which I thought was a really fitting description, because as I was reading it, I was getting major Riverdale vibes, if Riverdale had a little more of a New England-y, old money, old families type vibe. Burden Falls follows Ava,…
Imagine this: you find a cool abandoned building to check out. There’s no around but you, so you decide to start poking around a little bit, exploring. The building in question used to be a wildlife park, but now, there are only remnants of the business that once was. All the animals once housed here…
FINALLY, a good Beauty and the Beast retelling where the girl is the beast. Why is the girl never the beast? Is it because girls and women couldn’t possibly be beastly? Is it because women are expected to uphold a certain standard, to be perfect all the time? Is it because it’s just too unbelievable…
The film Things Heard and Seen, starring Amanda Seyfried and Natalia Dyer and directed by Sheri Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, premiered on Netflix recently, and while a lot of people have watched it and I see people talking about it, something I have yet to see many reviews acknowledge is the fact that the film is actually based on a novel, the literary thriller All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. I think it’s worth acknowledging, however, and worth delving into, because the novel is a very beautifully written, expansive work, and the movie—while faithful in many ways—is an interesting and, at times, successful interpretation of the original work.