reviews

Terminally Tepid Werewolf Action Author: David Wellington A lone woman, trekking through the desolation of the pre-Arctic forest is driven by need yet abandoned in fear – some mysterious mission half completed. As night falls, the chilling howl of starving wolves fills the air and Cheyenne, terrified, is driven up a tree. It looks as though she will not survive the night until a large wolf, a mythical like creature with power and blood lust swipes her bare ankle with its claws. Stranded, Chey waits until morning comes eventually finding a strange man who, in his battered pickup, leads her [...]

An Honest, Intellectual Progression from Atheism to Christianity Author: C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis, famed for his work within Christian apologetics, his religious metaphorical children’s novel series The Chronicles of Narnia, and his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien actually spent most of his life as an ardent atheist. Surprised by Joy functions not as an autobiography of the beloved author so much as a spiritual argument governed not by emotion but by pure rationality, getting to Lewis’s anti-sentimental personality and his attraction to the world of philosophy and intellectualism. Although brought up Christian, Lewis felt an aversion to his religion, especially as [...]

Life, Death and Mice... Author:  Billy Collins I haven’t been able to fully explain it until recently.  But when I read that Billy Collins told George Plimpton – in a 2001 interview in The Paris Review – that one of the main influences on his work has been Looney Tunes cartoons, it suddenly all made since.  My undying enthusiasm for the award-winning poet’s work owes its existence to the efforts of Bugs, Elmer and Sylvester.  Having zealously consumed his more recent works, my tour of the former US Poet Laureate’s body of work has had to venture back in time [...]