Annie Kapur
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Book Review: "We Were the Mulvaneys" by Joyce Carol Oates
It's June 2025 and I've had headaches and colds and unfortunately, I'm not in a great place mentally or physically. I don't know what's going on, I just know it's some sort of decline. Anyways, I hope everyone is enjoying how the weather has turned to rain - I left the window open just a little in order to experience a breath of fresh air. It's difficult when you live in a city to get any fresh air and even then, the air isn't really fresh. I've been flaring up with possible allergies and so, I decided to take my mind off it with a morning read. This is We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates - yes it's another JCO novel.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Summer, 1975
It was 1975 when we all realised that perhaps, our summers from now on were going to be different. It was a crazy time and blazing heat meant that everyone had left for beaches and other bodies of water. I was pathetically afraid of water and so, my parents allowed me to stay at home. I was fifteen that summer and my brother was sixteen. He had decided that he would spend the spring before earning some cash after school so that he could go to the lake with his friends, having enough money to buy some equipment such as a little boat and some fishing equipment.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Fiction
The Whitton Family Haunting
[A YouTube Show, 2018] Recently, in the cold case department of Scotland Yard, two officers came across a rather odd box from the Victorian Era - one which had not been opened since the 1870s. Both officers were baffled to find a letter inside which insinuates something horrific happened to a family - especially the father and yet, all evidence is circumstantial.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Fiction
Book Review: "The White Ship" by Charles Spencer
I've been looking forward to reading this for a while but it always appeared to expensive for me to buy. That's why, yet again, I have swung in when the sales were on. The White Ship is one of those books where I really felt like I was missing out for the time I didn't read it. When I finally had it on my Kindle, I dived in straight away and here we are. I am familiar with the story yes, but I also felt like I had acquired so much knowledge about some weird and odd details concerning the era and its kings.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
The Most Beautiful Hike in the World or; a Letter from Mrs Wendigo
It's been a pressing week and there will probably be more pressing weeks to come. I'm still looking for him after all this time but only God knows how he turned up the way he did only some days ago. I keep going over it in my mind but I can't seem to come to a rational conclusion. Let's see if you can help me out here.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Fiction
Book Review: "A Passion for Books" ed. by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan
I was going on a train journey and so, I needed something to read. A book called A Passion for Books seemed like the perfect train-read (if you've read my poem 'Observations on a Train' then you probably know what the journey was like). I was quite engrossed in the book for a long while before noises brought me out of it. I read it over lunch and then, when I got to where I was going. It wasn't too long but I will admit, whoever thought of putting this together did a really good job of choosing people who have very different ideas on what it means to have a passion for books.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "All Down Darkness Wide" by Seán Hewitt
It's late May, Bob Dylan's birthday has come and gone and I'm not going to lie - I had this book on my phone for literally ages. So long that I forgot about it and then, discovering it some time later, I was quite happy about getting a present from my past self. I can't believe I didn't read this when I had actually bought and downloaded it, that doesn't sound like me at all but here we are. A fantastic, atmospheric and brilliantly explorative set of truths upon the homosexual experience in moments of strife. This book is a lovely meditation on real life. Unflinching in its truth, beautiful in its prose, the author has done something wild here.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
The Wisest Man on Earth?
Full Title: The Wisest Man on Earth? Or; The Time Cube Theory The Time Cube theory is one of the most infamous and baffling concepts to have emerged from the early internet. Created by Gene Ray in 1997, the Time Cube website presented a rambling, aggressive, and deeply unconventional worldview that claimed mainstream education and scientific understanding were fundamentally flawed. According to Ray, time itself did not operate as a single linear sequence but instead functioned as a cube with four simultaneous days occurring at once. He argued that conventional physics and academia were deliberately suppressing this truth, leading to what he called "educated stupidity."
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
And She Said to Mr. Sandman.... Content Warning.
It was February and nobody was dead yet, so that was alright. She wandered around the staircase outdoors and it was raining but she didn't have a coat. The sun had already gone down and she didn't feel like going home yet, her hair matted by the water and a thunderstorm rolling in the distance. Stepping down two at a time, she walked across the university square and into the bar where she placed herself down for one beer. Her friends sat across the way and walked over almost silently though the bar was crowded. It was a long 6pm and they had all noticed that if they caught the trains now, they would be packed out - there would be no point. Waiting in the bar across campus therefore, became a staple against the storm.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Fiction
The Road at Midnight
The old roads rumbled under the wheels of the car as he drove home from checking that his daughter, having given birth, was alright. She was laying down in bed, her face coated in sweat, her father gently patting her forehead. There was no doubt that she was his favourite of all four children. Her husband, having been awake for several hours, back and forth from their house, was fast asleep on the chair with the new mother saying softly to her father to leave him asleep. He's worked very hard tonight having driven home and to the hospital five or six times in the last few hours and staying up with the mother, welcoming the three brothers, taking phone calls and all the rest.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Fiction
Book Review: "The Great Believers" by Rebecca Makkai
I was looking for a book about the AIDS crisis and this one was recommended to me by Amazon. The Great Believers ties two time frames together: one in 1985 in Chicago and the other in 2015 in Paris. I found the writing to be not overly immersive that it became sentimental for sentimental's sake, but not too removed to make me think whereabouts I stood. The author offers us this balance whilst keeping us in the mix of both worlds with all the feelings of grief and fear that the characters also experience. Honestly, if you haven't read this book already then I would say you probably want to pick it up. It's a heartbreaking experience and quite an important read if you really want to learn want certain people went through at a time where their way of life was legal, but still publicly condemned.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak’s magnum opus, was completed in 1956 and published in 1957. The novel is a sweeping epic that intertwines a personal love story with the tumultuous events of early 20th-century Russia, including the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War. Pasternak’s work faced significant resistance within the Soviet Union due to its perceived criticism of the Bolshevik regime and its emphasis on individual freedom over collectivism.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
