Tag: Psychological
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SENSELESS by Ronald Malfi (BOOK REVIEW)
“What part of your life are you in right now?” Have you ever finished a book and thought “Wow, that was brilliant but what ... -
WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix (BOOK REVIEW)
“This was the Great Mystery that lay at the heart of all things. This was the miracle that passed all understanding. First there is nothing. ... -
A SCARAB WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE by Marieke Bigg (BOOK REVIEW)
“The beetles were closing in on her. At first, they had opened her world up. They had helped her expand into a new realm of kinship. ... -
BLOOD RED by Gabriela Ponce translated by Sarah Booker (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wallow on the bathroom tiles, a red dot in this white universe. My solitude is writhing in a pain I never understood. I think about ... -
THE DRIVER’S SEAT by Muriel Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
“’Too much self-control, which arises from fear and timidity, that’s what’s wrong with them. They’re cowards, most of them.’ “’Oh, I always believe that’, says Mrs ... -
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER by Muriel Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
“There isn’t any war and peace any more, no good and evil, no communism, no capitalism, no fascism. There’s one area of conflict left and that’s ... -
BERG by Ann Quin (BOOK REVIEW)
“A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father…” And with that iconic opening line, ... -
THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREES by Catriona Ward (BOOK REVIEW)
“In the forest, even familiar things were strange. The constant wet patter of the night became the chilly drip of a dungeon. The creak of tree ... -
COME WITH ME by Ronald Malfi (BOOK REVIEW)
“The small secrets are easy to keep hidden—easier, say, than the big secrets, the whoppers, the infidelities, and closet addictions that, like some underwater beastie that ... -
LUCKENBOOTH by Jenni Fagan (BOOK REVIEW)
A Gothic Walk on the Wild Side In the eighteenth century, Edinburgh was home to the Scottish Enlightenment – the rule of reason, humanism, progress – ...