A panic attack is crippling. All the body's defense mechanisms are triggered at once, leaving a person frozen and in utter fear. Combine that with the fact that the stigma of mental health continues to plague our society, and dealing with these issues can be nearly impossible. Scott Stossel, current editor of The Atlantic magazine,... Continue Reading →
Katerina by James Frey
Paris 1992: An existence based on want. Of pure gluttony and desire. Cultivating a life of art, sex, drugs, and writing. A hard-driving frenetic love of Katerina. Los Angeles 2017: Stability. Boredom. Guilt. Commercial success. Deep self-hatred. Selling out. A love defined by partnership of wife, mother of children. Katerina is the story of Jay,... Continue Reading →
Florence. IOS Game. (Mini Review)
Florence is a game about the life of a young woman named... Florence. She has a career, a love of art, a doting mother, and as we all do, a daily routine. One day she meets a person who causes her to somewhat break and change that routine. She and Krish may be on their... Continue Reading →
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
Daniel Mason’s The Winter Soldier is a strongly-written novel of a field hospital on the Eastern front of World War One. Lucius is a young man from a family of means who finds medicine as an escape from the obligations of his birth. And when war breaks out with only a couple of years of... Continue Reading →
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo (Mini Review)
Fate brings a shipwreck to the shores of Themyscira, the Amazons' island home. Diane makes the decision to defy her people edict not to leave the island. She jumps into the water to save a Warbringer, a young woman in a long line of catalysts that have started wars and famine through the ages. Wonder... Continue Reading →