Annie Kapur
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The Winners List!
Well, that's it! The competition is over and can I just say that I have thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone's work here. There have really been a lot of amazing stories within this challenge. I can't believe I got so many responses to be perfectly honest with you. I have probably read most of them (if not all of them) three or four times now and well, you do make choosing winners difficult and so...
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Writers
Book Review: "Six Stories" by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig is probably one of my favourite writers of all time. His language is often terrifyingly emotional and tear-inducing. I purposefully left Six Stories for a while because of the emotions it may bring up that I really wasn't quite ready for until now. 6 years' ago, I said this about Journey into the Past if you would like to read it:
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Village of Stepanchikovo" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I was practically itching to read some Dostoevsky and seeing as my copy of The Brothers Karamazov, you know that one from years' ago that has all my notes in it, is lost in translation at the moment. So, I'm going to have to settle with a bit of a re-read of The Village of Stepanchikovo. I read this for the first time whilst taking my hiatus a couple of years back and I never reviewed it. I revisited it on my Kindle (again, only the lord will know where my paperback has gone) and all those emotions came rushing back. Dostoevsky just has this way with words that, if you haven't read his works or find them daunting - here is my advice: do it anyway.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "American Rapture" by CJ Leede
This was brutal. I was seeing this book everywhere and I kept avoiding it. I avoided it and avoided it over and over again until one day I just snapped. It's late-July 2025 and I'm not going to lie when I say I was pulled in by the Amazon Recommendations machine. It would be on my main recommendations list, it would be on my Kindle "recommended for you" lists and then, when I would get a book on my Kindle, it would appear after the 'thank you' screen when you go to the next recommendations page. After a week or so - I just cracked and now here we are. This is what I thought about American Rapture by CJ Leede.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Intercepts" by TJ Payne
Statistically, I can tell that you guys aren't fans of my horror novel reviews. But keep with me here because I swear I'm going to get off this train soon. For some reason, I was just aching to read some horror fiction and so, I think I've almost spent my binge-read of that genre for now. But if you don't like horror as a genre then I think we might have to rethink this friendship.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Artist" by Inigo Mort
I had this weird urge to read horror novels again and so, I sought out the Kindle Unlimited section of Amazon. I found a few that I'd like to read, but I don't think it is just me who is having a small issue with Amazon at the moment so please tell me if you feel the same. When seeking out horror novels, I seem to be getting tons of 'sponsored ads' for books. Some of these are horror novels, others are not. Quite literally, half of the page of results would be sponsored ads. I got rather annoyed but hey - at least I found some books.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
The Bunny Man
For decades, the eerie tales of the Bunny Man have circulated through the forests and suburban streets of Fairfax County, Virginia, captivating the imagination of locals and thrill-seekers alike. Who is this mysterious figure clad in a rabbit costume, lurking near the so-called Bunny Man Bridge? Is he merely a product of urban legend, or could there be a deeper truth behind the axe-wielding spectre?
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio was first published in 1919 and is widely considered a cornerstone of American modernist literature. Subtitled A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life, the book is a collection of interconnected short stories that revolve around the inhabitants of the fictional town of Winesburg, as observed through the perspective of a young man named George Willard. The work is often described as a Bildungsroman wrapped within a short story cycle.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Bombshell" by Darrow Farr
When I heard about this book I swear I wasn't looking at the Kindle price to page ratio. Actually I was. It was 99p for over 400 pages of novel and so, I took my chances. The book's summary on Amazon didn't sound all that exciting but I think that if I didn't take up the deal then I probably would have run out of things to read. The Bombshell is basically about a seventeen-year-old entitled girl who is obsessed with celebrities, Hollywood and money who is the daughter of some pretty important people. She ends up getting kidnapped and held as a political prisoner by a group of people trying to get another political prisoner to be set free. At 25, he has a 15 year sentence.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Graveyard Shift" by M.L Rio
Four years' ago now, I reviewed the debut novel If We Were Villains by M.L Rio. Now, the author has another book out titled Graveyard Shift which has all the markings of their writing. Often instead of there being one key protagonist, there is a group of main characters who all contribute to the story. After this, we have the very unlikely way in which they form alliances and friendships that almost seems a bit unrealistic - but it's fiction so it doesn't have to (and probably purposefully isn't) based in reality. Finally, there is the creeping sense of dread that underscores the novel. And so, we dive back into the world of M.L Rio, trying to work out what kind of author they will turn out to be.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "This Book Will Bury Me" by Ashley Winstead
Let's get one thing straight here: I bought this book because it was free and I had nothing to read. I was not expecting to enjoy it but I have to admit, even though it was a bit cliché and I could definitely see where the book was going, it was still entertaining to some degree. No, it may not be the perfectly crime novel, or the perfect thriller novel, or really the perfect anything novel. But one thing this book does prove is that not all novels have to be completely polished to give the reader a dose of entertainment. It was still pretty good even though I don't think I've ever heard of the author.
By Annie Kapur6 months ago in Geeks
