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The New Age of Superheroes

The Umbrella Academy TV Review Many of you have probably watched, or are planning to watch, the new addition to Netflix: The Umbrella Academy. The sci-fi superhero show is based on a graphic novel created by Gerard Way, who is best known as the former front man of My Chemical Romance, and artist Gabriel Bá. Right off the bat, I could tell that this show was quirky, goth-y, and slightly surrealist, which aptly fits with the Gerard Way circa MCR brand. The Umbrella Academy revolves around a group of children who were all born on the same day to women…

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‘After The Green Withered’ by Kristin Ward

The Importance of EcoLiterature Today’s post is an incredibly exciting one as I am reviewing a book part of a massive book tour organised by Twitter’sThe_WriteReads, a forum where book bloggers can support other bloggers through retweeting and commenting. Not only is this a great way to increase one’s exposure in the blogging world, TheWriteReads has created a community in which bloggers can exchange opinions and ideas freely and get recognition for the hard work they put in. And now, they can even take part in this #UltimateBlogTour and get to experience reading some amazing books they perhaps would not…

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‘Sadie’ Audiobook Review

Finding an audiobook that I want to listen to is always a tricky business. Just like how I can be picky about the books I want to read, I have certain preferences when it comes to audiobooks. From the narrator to the genre there is a lot I consider before choosing an audiobook. Personally, I tend to find crime and detective stories to be the most engaging in audiobook form. I have talked about my love for the audiobooks of Joy Ellis’ “DI Jackman and DS Evans series” before. However, when it came to Courtney Summer’s Sadie it was not…

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Reading When Feeling Low

How to read when you don’t feel like it For many, reading is one of those activities that acts as an escape from the stress and difficulties of their lives, giving them the ability to fall into a world far from their own and their own problems. It can be a wonderful tool in promoting self-thought, but also a most efficient distraction from the never-ending stream of consciousness we all experience. But undoubtedly, there are those days (or in my case, weeks) when you struggle to find the joy in reading. Maybe because you are too busy, occupied with a…

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Stories about Women to Discover this International Women’s Day

Happy International Women’s Day! This blog is run by two women and for us, it is very important to constantly remember and shine the light on the amazing women artists who have been writing, directing, acting, singing, creating incredibly works of storytelling. Particularly when those stories have to do with other women. Women’s history has not always been the kindest, in fact for most of history, women found themselves in positions of want in comparison to the other sex. Strides have been made in the last century that work to alter that position, but there is still so much to…

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A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab Book Review

Have you ever had that moment when you’ve looked around you and asked yourself, “what if that didn’t exist?” or “what if things worked differently?” and you fall down the rabbit hole of imagining a whole different kind of world? Well, that is exactly what reading V. E. Schwab’s novel A Darker Shade of Magic did for me. A Darker Shade of Magic takes place in a world that holds multiple universes, four to be precise, and only those with magic can cross over into the other worlds. While so many things are different in each of the worlds, one…

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