Tender
Review Tender is an unnerving story of societal expectations of women, jealousy, control, and madness. I was completely engrossed in reading the story and flew through it in one sitting.…
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories
Review Eric LaRocca has shot to the top of my favorite author list in one year. I’ve been dazzled by the depth and breadth of his understanding of the human…
The Road
Review The Road was my first Cormac McCarthy book and it's a book I still feel conflicted about nearly ten years after reading it. The book was equal parts fascinating…
The Song of Saya
Review It's always so good to go back and play an old game and find a gem. I had heard about this game because of the more controversial aspects of…
We Can Never Leave This Place
Review We Can Never Leave This Place is a phantasmagorical masterpiece, a surreal nightmare about an imaginative girl trapped in lockdown at home with her mother. The world is in…
The Salt Grows Heavy
Review I didn't know what I was getting myself into, but I was ready to take the plunge the second I saw this book. The Salt Grows Heavy is a…
Beautiful Darkness
Review I don't think that there is anything that could have properly prepared me for the dark themes that are presented so capriciously in this graphic novel. The corpse of…
Graveneye
Review To say that this graphic novel shocked me is an understatement, but not because of the gruesome content. I'll be honest that I didn't enjoy the early parts of…
Tender Is the Flesh
Review What would happen to the meat industry if animals were suddenly inedible? Wiped out by a terrifying virus that makes animals toxic to humans. Tender is the Flesh answers…
Life Ceremony
Review When I read Convenience Store Woman a few years ago I couldn't get enough of Murata's writing. I'm a big fan of short stories, so I was excited to…