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Horror Blog: Poppy Z. Brite
http://davidandrewriley.blogspot.com “Calcutta, Lord of Nerves” by Poppy Z. Brite is a dark and fascinating look at the city of Calcutta, which has become the site of a zombie infestation. The zombies,...
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Mark’s Awesome Word of the Week
soporific Undoubtedly, at some point in your college career, you’ve had a class or two which put you to sleep. Despite wanting, in earnest, to learn the fine points of something completely unrelated...
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Liz’s News of the Books
http://squidoo.com The Contemporary and the Terrible I don’t know who J.Robert Lennon is, but he made a lot of my Facebook friends see red last week with a Salon.com article entitled “Most contemporary...
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Fictional Friday: Under The Dome
Courtesy of amazon.com As a fan of Stephen King, I’ve read a lot of his novels, the most recent being his mammoth 1,000 page “Under The Dome”. With a new television series being made based on it, I...
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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity and Zombies”
Part Four After composing myself, I asked for further information, “Why were you even in that section?” He looked guilty when I asked the expected, though he answered me anyway, “I had heard Irene was...
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Editor’s Notes #116
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello readers and welcome to this week’s round-up of posts. We certainly had a full week! I hope you’re all enjoying the warmer weather if, in fact,...
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Writing Advice: Unsticking
http://borninthewrongdecade- niamhy.blogspot.com We’ve all been there, haven’t we? You’re about halfway through a story and find yourself mired in the plot and unable to pull yourself out. You can’t...
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Discuss: Amazon & Goodreads
http://multichannelmerchant.com For those of you who don’t know, Goodreads is a social networking site for the bibliophiles amongst us. The site allows users to chronicle their book collections and...
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Books on Screen: The Great Gatsby
Courtesy of collider.com The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most well known novels of all time. It’s consistently used in many English classes, and will make its debut on May 10,...
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Three Frederick Wiseman Documentaries
Still from Frederick Wiseman’s High School Frederick Wiseman is a documentarian who began his career with a controversial film that featured a Massachusetts correctional facility for the criminally...
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Mark’s Awesome Word of the Week
pithy At the end of the spectrum opposite of people who stammer or beat around the proverbial bush, there are those who are pithy (PITH-ee). To be pithy is to be several things—namely, brief,...
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Fictional Friday: A Tale of Two Cities
Courtesy of book-of-the-day.com As a freshman in high school, we all had to read those books that we hated. For me, one of those novels was the classic A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Maybe it...
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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity and Zombies”
Part Five “Where do you suppose that Master learned those skills?” I asked Sherlock as a method of observation he usually appreciated. “I have seen those talent before,” he said in response, “here she...
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Editor’s Notes #117
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Welcome, readers, to this week’s recap of the Jet Fuel Review’s blog posts. We’ve had some great posts this past week and we hope you enjoyed them! First...
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Writing Advice: Skipping Scenes
http://en.wikipedia.org We all know that some scenes are easy to write, and others are like pulling teeth. At times it feels like the words are flowing and they can’t be stopped. But sooner or later,...
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Horror Blog: “Teratisms”
http://amazon.ca “Teratisms” by Kathe Koja is the story of a brother and sister forced to look after their monstrous sibling, Alex, who has a taste for flesh. As they drive through Louisiana, the...
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Books on Screen: Carrie
Courtesy of spinoff.comicbookresources.com As I may have mentioned in the past, I love Stephen King. Needless to say, I have seen the 1976 movie “Carrie,” featuring Sissy Spacek. There is a 2013...
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Poem from Slate: Dean Young
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled Upon Hearing of Another Marriage Breaking Up and is written by Dean Young. When I saw the author of...
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Bibliophilia: Autun, France V. A Bunch of Rats
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals One of my great joys in life is reading about famous animals. There is something so absurd about how their biographies are written that I just...
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National Library Week!
http://glenbrook225.org Exciting news, blog readers! This week is National Library Week, which means we should all get out of the house and appreciate our local libraries. As a part of this special...
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