Author: The Literary Guillotine
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Film Review of “A Real Pain”
This past Friday, one of the featured guests on Real Time with Bill Maher was Jesse Eisenberg. Eisenberg took the time to talk about his new film, A Real Pain, and the whole plot of the movie sounded so intriguing to me. Right after finishing Real Time, I began scanning my streaming memberships and saw…
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Review of Empire of Storms
If you follow along with my Tik Tok, you know that Empire of Storms took me a while to get through. Even after I finished reading the book, I took an additional few days to post my video review. This was not an accident… I don’t want to say that I flat-out disliked the work.…
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Five Books on My TBR List
If you’re a reader you know a TBR (to be read) list is never complete. The list grows like an insatiable monster, fueled by Book Tok recommendations and lazy Sunday afternoons browsing the book store. I cannot be the only one with stacks of books invading every surface of my house from my nightstand, to…
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Review of Queen of Shadows
I finally finished Queen of Shadows, the fifth book in Sarah J. Maas’ Throne of Glass series. Let’s talk about it…
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A Defense of Tamlin
When I first picked up A Court of Thorns and Roses I fell in love with the development of Feyre and Tamlin’s relationship. It was romantic, heroic, sexy at times, and whimsical in the way I wanted a story about faeries to be. However, for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why audiences…
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What is an Unreliable Narrator?
What is an unreliable narrator? Is it an insult? What does Don Quixote, Scout Finch, and Feyre Archeron all have in common? Let’s talk about it.