April was dominated by a single video game, books and some video essays. I expect this to be the norm going forward.
Continue reading “Media Diet – April 2024”Review: Horizon Forbidden West
Continue reading “Review: Horizon Forbidden West”Home is not a place, it is the people I want to be with.
Aloy, Horizon Forbidden West
Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Continue reading “Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff”Wasn’t sanity like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?
Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
fragments of loneliness
This poem came to me as the first line and then I built on two words: lonely and single to really double down on the theme of loneliness. Secondary theme or word association here is plants.
I’m tentatively putting this in a series of poetry I’m calling Fragments. I want these to be short poems about a single topic.
Continue reading “fragments of loneliness”Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Continue reading “Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna”A middle-aged white woman smiled warmly at them from behind the till. “Lovely afternoon, isn’t it?” she said, abiding by that ancient and most sacred British law of only ever starting a conversation with a comment on the weather.
Chapter 12 of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna