In Ben Berman Ghan's The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits, A hologram gains sentience after lunar citizens flee the moon for earth. The dead are reanimated by mushrooms. An android is sent into space to destroy the infected. In this futuristic dystopia, love spans centuries, exceeds limits, and defies programming.

An isolated town, a seance, and a murder.

“For what can the damned really say to the damned?” – Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice. Thinking about this quote today.

The town is Undisclosed. David Wong and John Cheese are fake names. Soy sauce is a drug that lets you see beyond the boundaries of time and the dimensional planes of existence; and it will burrow its way inside of you whether you want to take it or not. Korrok is coming, and this book has already infected you.

Keep and eye out for my John Dies at the End review tomorrow! I’m finishing up reviews that I’ve been sitting on while I work on reading and reviewing books for River Street Press and an independent book program. Hoping to be back to my current reading list and a regular posting schedule at the end of August.

Reading update! The blog has been quiet for a little bit while I catch up reading and put together a few reviews (that are more like articles) behind the scenes! Currently reading A Dark Death by Alice Fitzpatrick and hope to share my thoughts on it soon.

Phraphai meets a boy at his neighbourhood playground that no one else can see or hear. Twenty years later, he returns to his childhood home, and finds an adult Klongyao waiting for him at the swingset. Overjoyed to reconnect, Phraphai doesn't hesitate to swear never to leave Klongyao again.

Thirty years after filming, the sole-surviving cast member is back for the reboot of a never-released horror movie, and he's willing to feed into the "cursed film" mystery, no matter what cost.

A deeply introspective look at Trinh's life through her experiences, juxtaposed alongside figures from well known myths, legends, and religious texts.

A raw, self-examination of belonging, being. In Fuse, Hollay Ghadery shares vulnerable snapshots of her mental health journey, with visceral honesty, through the poetic lens of hindsight.

A family comes together to plan a wedding, and in their shared moments they face the rumblings of ongoing trauma wrought from the incestuous behaviour of their patriarch. In the years following, they struggle to support and understand one another after charges of molestation and sexual abuse are laid. Word of the court case flies around their rural Manitoba town, and more abuse is uncovered, causing further division for not only their family but also their community.