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• Bleak Day

  By Erna on May 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I feel so bleak I hate being weak Under the weather Not holding the reins A cocktail of clichés The day is sunny But, isn’t it funny, I’m hoping for rain To wash the worries Down the drain. © 2018… Read More ›

• Ready Player One Movie: A Frolic Down the Memory Lane

  By Erna on April 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It is a common occurrence that as soon as a book-based film gets released the critics start raving about how much better the book was. Yet we do seem to forget that books and films are two very different media… Read More ›

• Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Ishiguro’s Nocturnes

  By Erna on April 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It is oft said that even the best of novelists hone their skills on short stories since they contain more or less the same elements as novels yet on a smaller scale. Kazuo Ishiguro’s charming collection titled Nocturnes: Five Stories… Read More ›

• Middle of Nowhere

  By Erna on February 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Mosquitoes on the glass Peer at the breathing mass Rubbing their dainty hands Expecting a feast in the sands In the midst of these parched lands Palm trees and a patch of grass Everything else meant to pass The wind… Read More ›

• Merciless

  By Erna on November 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Waiting on the roadside. What for? To be ticked off, Ground and minced, A pile of drying meat Left to rot and repel Everyone but hungry worms Obese, rolling heavily Yet famished, craving flesh. Is it worth the wait? Don’t… Read More ›

• Disintegrating

  By Erna on October 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Dreams fall apart In my hands Seep through my fingers Into the cracks Through the floor And into the river Of tears and sweat Flowing down the canyons Of the aged face where Dead dreams rot and fester Un-lived, unrealised,… Read More ›

• Ready Player One – A Dystopian Cliché?

  By Erna on September 9, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Ernest Cline’s highly popular novel, Ready Player One, has been widely acclaimed for its originality  and deep immersion into the 1980s, the decade when the video-gaming as we know it today set root in the form of hugely popular video… Read More ›

• The Muse: Burton and Barthes

  By Erna on August 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Jessie Burton again turns to the past to harness inspiration for her second book, The Muse. This time the plot moves back and forth between the 1930s civil-war-ravaged Spain and the 1960s London, yet the issue at hand is not… Read More ›

• Writer’s Block: Getting Out of the Rut

  By Erna on July 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve been working on my novel long enough to expect to get stuck in a rut at least once a week. What I make sure, though, is that these ‘recovery periods’ as I call them, do not last for long…. Read More ›

• Good Omens: Books, Bikers, and a Bentley

  By Erna on July 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This is one of the very few books that has managed to leave me in tears (of joy and uncontrolled laughter) after every few pages. Good Omens, written by the unsurpassable Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, is irreverently hilarious revolving… Read More ›

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