Alexandra’s Blog

Falling for Hamlet

Hamlet is a story of betrayal, dealing with grief, politics and madness. In the play, Shakespeare is able to hit on many themes and emotions, giving actors much...

DOTA Adventures: Snow White and the Huntsman

Fairy Tales are really popular these days. Did ABC’s Once Upon a Time wake them up from some magical slumber? Snow White and the Huntsmen is a beautifully...

ALEXANDRA RANTS: The Inheritance Cycle

Also known as “The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Star-Wars-Belgariad-Doctor-Who-If-It’s-Fantasy-And-Published-It’s-In-Here-Somewhere” Book A long ti...

Watching Cabin in the Woods

I was one of those Whedon Fangirls who knew about The Cabin in the Woods when it was originally mentioned years ago. I’ve been following the Science Ficti...

We Interrupt Your Usual Programming for Holy Musical B@tman!

A friend just sent me this link, and it is by far one of the most brilliant things I have seen in a very long time. I present to you: Holy Musical B@tman! Part ...

SPOILERY GOODNESS: Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Prince and the Jem/Will Situation

Recently, I reviewed Cassandra Clare’s newest novel Clockwork Prince. (Read that review here). But as I mentioned in the review, I didn’t want to go...

30 Day Book Challenge – Day Four: A Guilty Pleasure Book

I have returned from the horrible world of University Essay Land! I should have thought more about starting one of these 30 Day Book Challenges right before the...

30 Day Book Challenge – Day Three: Your Favourite Series

This question is a hard one for me to answer. It’s impossible for me to settle on a single series because I keep coming up with other series’ that I...

30 Day Book Challenge – Day Two: A Book You Have Read More Than Three Times

It’s always great when you are able to find a book that you can read over and over again without it getting old. The one book that I never get sick of rea...

30 Day Book Challenge – Day One: Best Book You Read Last Year

A new website calls for a new 30 Day Book Challenge. Hopefully this time I’ll be able to complete it. So I’ve scrapped everything have already done ...

Shambling Towards Hiroshima

So I had to read this book for my Science Fiction Class even though this book is not really science fiction. It does possess science fiction elements in the for...

Holes

Holes is also a pretty great film. The adaptation managed to stay very close to the source material and the story translated well to screen. The Holes film was ...

Beauty Queens aka Lord of the Flies 2.0

Every once in a while you come across a book and you realize that you have been waiting for it your entire life. That was our reaction to Libba Bray’s Bea...

The Replacement Cover

You come to the crossroads, you’re faced with a decision. Which book do you choose? The first thing that drew me to Brenna Yovanoff’s debut novel Th...

The Replacement

The Replacement had a lot of potential. The atmosphere in this book is wonderfully creepy and uncomfortable. It draws to mind a town where it is always overcast...

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