An utterly compelling read, its tone reminiscent of a classic fable in parts, A Monster Calls is one of those rare books that you wished you’d never read, so you could read it all over again. It tells the story of a young boy battling far bigger fears than the most gruesome and terrifying of all monsters – the reality of his…
Category: Brain Feeding
Brain Feeding: The Hunger Games
Everyone and their dog now knows about Suzanne Collins’ amazing dystopian creation, but back in the deepest, darkest recesses of 2009/10, The Hunger Games was little more than a whisper on the lips of bookish bairns. Picture the scene, I was in the midst of my MA in Creative Writing at Portsmouth University when our tutor Sam Hawksmoor, a fine author with a bloodhound-like…
Brain Feeding: Stranger Things
There’s conspiracy theories, monsters and magic, geeks galore, teenage angst and Winona Ryder acting like her life depended on it! Genius Casting! Tom Harris, November 2016 Netflix – I’ve heard strange things about it; some bad, mostly good – and so when someone told me that there was this epic new series called ‘Stranger Things’ excusive to…
Brain Feeding: Batman VOL 7: Endgame
Roll up, roll up, shake loose that frown, read this epic showdown ‘tween bat & clown Tom Harris, October 2016 BATMAN VOLUME 7: ENDGAME As pulsating a graphic novel as I have encountered, as Synder and Capullo’s New52 series from the world of DC, reaches a brave, new tipping point in their brilliant evolutionary take on the darkest of…
Brain Feeding: True Detective
I must be as mad as Reggie Ledoux for not watching this again sooner… Tom Harris – October 2016 TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON ONE: Insanely brilliant writing by Nic Pizzolatto, with the two leads McConaughey & Harrelson acting their proverbial socks off against the eerie, scene-stealing Bayou backdrop. With a setting as dark and brooding as…
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