Regret and its Apparitions

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Ah yes, the stench, the brewing disgust, the singeing alloy of regret. And the healing power of it.


Many authors write things they regret—books, sentences, misplaced words, whole bodies of work. Some authors even regret the success of their books. But I'd like to focus on characters and their own regrets, or lack of regrets.


Depicted in some beautiful fan-art above, is Severus Snape

Reading a Movie: Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi

So, I'll start off by admitting that I didn't finish this one.

It's sad really.

I wanted to enjoy Tomi Adeyemi's debut, but as I was flipping past page after page of wham-pow hits and somersaults and narrow escapes, of differing points of view, of this new kind of fantasy world sorta kinda based on Yoruba mythology, I kinda felt like I was reading Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes, the films. Just in book form.

Walter Mosley's Use of the Inner Voice

In Mosley's arguably most popular work, Devil In a Blue Dress, with a film of the same name under its belt, we are introduced to the detective Ezekiel (Easy) Rawlins. As Easy endeavors to save his house (the one thing in the world he loves) by unraveling the mystery of one Daphne Monet (the one character wearing a blue dress, hmm...), he is afflicted by one act of violence after another. Some he commits himself. But most are committed by a range of love-to-hate-'em supporting characters and antagonists.

Developing Fan Loyalty - A Look at Catherine Coulter's Thrillers

I've recently dived into Blindside, one of many FBI Thrillers penned by Catherine Coulter. Her customers gave her 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon for Blindside, Book 8 of her FBI Thrillers. Did I mention there are 22 of these books?

I wanted to know how these books worked, what kept people coming back again and again to them, what kept people turning the pages and laying down their hard-earned money—and to hopefully find a satisfying fast read in the process!

Well, I didn't finish even one book...