Category: writing / books
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Book Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
[Very minor spoilers lie ahead] The Hunger Games tells the story of a teen girl living in a future, post-post-apocalyptic world, where an obviously-evil government keeps the people in line by throwing a handful of them into a televised fight to the death in an outdoor arena once a year. Although it doesn’t happen right…
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#Shorterfilms and Being Trendy on Twitter
For the past two years, I’ve been on the board of the London Short Film Showcase. One thing I’ve been doing is running contests on Facebook and Twitter to promote the event (next Saturday at 7pm! Come!). On Friday, I posted this pair of tweets: I figured a few local people would enter, which would…
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Book Review: Heart Shaped Box, by Joe Hill
Heart Shaped Box tells the story of an aging rock star with a bad habit of buying morbid and unusual artifacts. One such artifact is a box (yes, in the shape of a heart) said to contain a ghost. Spoiler alert: it does. This is a ghost story that doesn’t fuck around. It’s clear from…