Review of “The Weeping Empress”
A fantasy epic set in an alternative universe alongside (or crooked) to ours, Sadie Forsythe illustrates the journey of a young woman called Chiyo and her relationship with violence and destiny. Chiyo is from our world, we assume, had a normal life with a husband and young child but is forced to survive in a...
“The Ethereal Tree” is poetry growing?
By Ruth Ingamells In reading you will experience a medley of emotions similar to grief. Ranging from relief to melancholy to power to peace. Donato F. Duldulao, Jr. illustrates his life in his poetry collection “The Ethereal Tree”. They are ordered chronologically and in that sense they seem to have little structure according to theme...
Cats – jumping on the bandwagon?
A review of “The Truth About Cats” by M0lly Brandenburg By Ruth Ingamells We are the cat obsessed generation, and this book caters perfectly for us. As a cat lover myself this book jumped out in its furry glory – could this be the next ‘Simon’s Cat’? The illustration is solid and stylised, not too...
Review: “To your health: Humanities Diagnosis” by Jeremiah Walton
With poetry making a come-back among the young we are arguably on the verge of a new literary era – or so we hope. Poetry is cheap, and explosive. So few words can expand the mind a millennia – or so Emily Dickinson taught us – and explosion is certainly present in Jeremiah Walton’s short...
