Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono My rating: 5 of 5 stars Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service is one of my comfort movies. A movie I've watched countless of times and always look forward to watching again because I love it so much. And to be honest, I didn&…

In the dusty agave fields of the Guadalajara countryside, a peasant girl cuts a deal with the insidious thing living beneath her father’s house. An industrial accident aboard a space station in humanity’s distant future forces an unappreciated laborer to survive an unpredictable alien m…

Camille and Brad are sock-puppets that live in a dusty old attic. They fill their days by exploring the storage boxes in their small world. One day they find yarn and needles and they create something that causes a nightmarish series of events to unfold... and Brad has been hiding somethi…

In the dark, gothic town of Wickdon, Maggie Welty lives in an old creaking manor. Maggie's mother is an alchemist who has recently left town, leaving Maggie with just her bloodhound for company. But when Maggie spots a legendary ancient fox-creature on her porch, her fate is changed f…

The Unsuitable by Molly Pohlig My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've had my eye on this lovely book for a while, and I decided it was time to check it out. Iseult Wince is a woman like no other. She loves to go for long walks, is used to being ignored by her father, and talks to her dead …

Hey! How are you today? Well, it's Thursday and today it was time to take care of a few last-minute revision tweaks. Yeah, I always end up with a list of rep words and details to double check before calling the project done. Anyway, here are the stats:  Monday: 38/79 pgs (28,956w) T…

Emily has been obsessed with the occult since her mother died, collecting every pagan curio and oddity she can find. Then on the night of her sixteenth birthday, her father gives her a piece of real magic: a beating human heart inside a wooden box. If the gift weren't strange enough…

The Trivia Night by Ali Lowe My rating: 2 of 5 stars I was interested in this book because I'm a sucker for domestic thrillers. Plus it's been compared to Big Little Lies , which I really enjoyed. I also like reading books written by Aussies, of course. Unfortunately, the onl…

Hey! How are you today? I hope you're all having a great day!  Well, this week I got stuck into the third draft of my tentatively titled, Cosmic,  novel. Except, during the third draft I started cutting words and more words, until this became a YA thriller novella. 😬 Here's why…

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've got several Gwendolyn Kiste books waiting in my TBR pile, so I decided to start with this lovely collection. Here's what I thought of each story... SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE : Wo…

Hey! How are you? Long time no blog. Well, it hasn't been that long since I keep posting book reviews, but you know what I mean.  So, now that January is over and my brain finally feels like it's ready to concentrate again, it's time to get stuck into a new Revision Project. L…