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Book Review: "Ultra-Processed People" by Chris van Tulleken
“The food security that many of us enjoy is the product of a system of production that has kept costs low by destroying wild land and not paying for the costs of atmospheric carbon. These approaches will, ironically, create huge food insecurity. This is happening already around the globe, but nowhere more directly than in the areas of the Amazon that have been deforested to grow soy.”
Annie KapurPublished 26 days ago in GeeksBook Review: "Nevada" by Imogen Binnie
“The problem wasn’t the coping mechanism, the problem is that the coping mechanism becomes a pattern of behavior, and it is really hard to just up and end a behavior pattern.” - Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Annie KapurPublished 26 days ago in GeeksOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
“Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.” - Of Mice and Men
Annie KapurPublished 27 days ago in GeeksBook Review: "Queer" by William S. Burroughs
“The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.” - Queer by William S. Burroughs
Annie KapurPublished 28 days ago in GeeksLisa Frankenstein
*SPOILERS WARNING* -also for those of you who are NOT fans of CAMPY movies this is not for you... sorry because- in my best hipster voice "this movie is 100% Camp bruh." Which for me and anyone else who loves over dramatics, theatrics, homages to the classics, and all things 80's it's an absolute treat!!
Hayley MattoPublished 28 days ago in GeeksBook Review: "Dancing Ledge" by Derek Jarman
“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!” - Dancing Ledge by Derek Jarman As I hope you all know by now, Derek Jarman is one of my all-time favourite people ever. A great film director, a brilliant writer and a man who simply has one of the greatest artistic imaginations out there. Derek Jarman was a testament to everything film is meant to be. The creator of masterpieces such as Edward II and Caravaggio, the book 'Dancing Ledge' starts off with the difficulties of making them, the funding that was not there and goes through the incredible hard work that Jarman put in to creating these masterpieces and many more. A man who had a wild life and an even wilder mind proves to be one of the most intelligent men that the film world has ever seen.
Annie KapurPublished 29 days ago in GeeksThoughts on Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story “Hills Like White Elephants”
The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway symbolizes the choice that many young couples must face when they find out that they are pregnant. The first time I read the story, I had no idea what it was about. It wasn’t until I got some outside information on the story that I understood that the operation that they were subtly discussing was in fact abortion. Their conversation is very believable. It seems as if it would be a very common conversation between many couples in this day and age. Their conversation consisted of short, indirect sentences. I found the man in the short story to be the shallow one. I think it is likely more relatable for many couples that the man is typically the more shallow one in most circumstances with surprise pregnancies. Hemingway likely wrote the story this way in order to prove a more believable, or relatable situation. The man in the story was the one who wanted to carry on with his fun life. He didn’t really want to commit, or have any obligations to hold him down.
Rowan FinleyPublished 29 days ago in GeeksBook Review: "Pharmacopoeia" by Derek Jarman
I think we all know by now how much I adore Derek Jarman and his movies. I regard his film ‘Caravaggio’ as one of the greatest movies ever made and his film ‘Edward II’ possibly the greatest adaptation to be made of the play ever. Unfortunately, Derek Jarman succumbed to AIDS and died in the mid-1990s having only made films since the 70s. I can honestly say that though he was a short-lived talent, he will by no means be forgotten to time. With a cracking introduction of how Jarman was first attracted to the house and garden written by his good friend and actress, Tilda Swinton, this book is a testament to garden therapy and how it can help the ease the suffering. Derek Jarman stands to be not only a great director but also a brilliant writer. I have read many of his books and this one is just like the other - absolutely captivating.
Annie KapurPublished about a month ago in GeeksBook Review: "The Eighth Square" by Herbert Lieberman
Herbert Lieberman is synonymous with being a bit of a whiz-kid when it comes to psychological horror. His novel Crawlspace often appears on lists of the 'scariest books ever written' without having much blood and gore, but instead playing on the mind of the reader and keeping them terrified and engrossed from start to finish. The story he came up with in City of the Dead has been loved by psychological thriller fans everywhere and yet, in my books, falls short in some places. Be that as it may, I have persevered with his books, not letting one mediocre experience cloud my vision.
Annie KapurPublished about a month ago in GeeksChronicles of the Demon Faction Chapter 59 (English) Release Date & Where to Read
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Book Review: "The Haar: A Horror Novel" by David Sodergren
Muriel Margaret McAuley was eighty-four years old the first time she saw a man turned inside-out by a sea monster. You might think it would bother a woman of her age, but, as Muriel was fond of saying, she had seen a lot in her eighty-four short years. - The Haar: A Horror Novel by David Sodergren
Annie KapurPublished about a month ago in GeeksBook Review: "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson
I had been meaning to read this book for a while and so, on a train one day I decided I would pick it up from the travel shop along with a can of Red Bull. I spent the entire two hour train journey reading the book and managed, by the end of the journey to make it up to the middle of chapter four, or around just passed page 100-and-something. When I got to my destination, I continued to read the book for a bit and kept investing myself in all of these experiments and criticisms, these investigations and histories. It proved to be a really interesting book and so, you can tell already that this will be a positive review.
Annie KapurPublished about a month ago in Geeks