October Overview and September Wrap-Up
Hello guys, gals, and pals! Another month has come and gone, it is officially October and with that comes spooky season for me. I hit a major book reading slump in the second half of September, so that book TBR was thrown out the window. I gained a new manga obsession with One Piece. What […]
Manga Review: One Piece Vol. 2 by Eiichiro Oda
*Contains Spoilers* Premise We follow Monkey D. Luffy as he sets off to fulfill his dream of being a pirate and go on a high seas quest to build a pirate crew and find the legendary treasure “One Piece” and become the Pirate King. In this volume, we meet Nami, the thief and Buggy the […]
Book Review: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Premise Haunted house story with a twist in the setting. At the Orsk furniture superstore, every morning the employees arrive to find furniture smashed and ruined. Sales are down, cameras are useless, and managers are panicking. As a last resort, three employees work a nine-hour dusk-to-dawn shift. They patrol the supposedly empty showroom floor, investigate […]
Manga Review: One Piece Vol. 1 by Eiichiro Oda
Premise We follow Monkey D. Luffy as he sets off to fulfill his dream of being a pirate and go on a high seas quest to build a pirate crew and find the legendary treasure “One Piece” and become the Pirate King. My Review One Piece by Eiichiro Oda is either the manga/anime people can’t […]
September Overview
Hello guys, gals, and pals! It is already September 11th when I am posting this but I wanted to give a brief overview of the month and what is going on behind the scenes. To start with, I am changing the writing schedule from once a week to twice a week as I am reading […]
Manga Review: Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 2
Premise After trying to resurrect their deceased mother using forbidden alchemy, Edward and Alphonse Elric tragically pay the price of equivalent exchange with Alphonse’s body and Edward’s arm and leg. They are now on a journey to find the philosopher’s stone, a legendary artifact said to grant the power to bypass the laws of equivalent […]
Book Review: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Premise Annihilation follows the biologist of the twelfth expedition into Area X, where nature has reclaimed a part of human civilization. There are three other members on this expedition, all women, and all have different specialties. They enter the border expecting the unexpected and that is exactly what they get. It is the secrets between […]
Manga Review: Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 1
Premise After trying to resurrect their deceased mother using forbidden alchemy, Edward and Alphonse Elric tragically pay the price of equivalent exchange with Alphonse’s body and Edward’s arm and leg. They are now on a journey to find the philosopher’s stone, a legendary artifact said to grant the power to bypass the laws of equivalent […]
Argumentative Essay: Book Bans: Who are They Truly Protecting
Book Bans: Who are They Truly Protecting By Lily Book banning is no new thing; in the United States of America, it first started in the 17th century, and they would burn the books – does this remind anyone of Fahrenheit 451 by George Orwell? While people in the United States are no longer burning […]
Book Review: A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
A Whole New World by Liz Braswell is the start of something fun and different. It is the first work published in the series A Twisted Tale. This series is all about the “what ifs” for Disney and Pixar films. A Whole New World follows the what if of: “What if Aladdin never found the […]