Never Let Me Go: a haunting, reality-based dystopia
Looking back, I can’t remember when I first became aware of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. It might’ve been on Goodreads, where I saw it praised as one of…
Aniara: sci-fi at its most fascinating and bleakest
“Myself I questioned, but gave no reply. I dreamt myself a life, then lived a lie. I ranged the universe but passed it by — for captive on Aniara here…
The enthralling, cyclical world of Cloud Atlas
Ah, Cloud Atlas, my beloved. I read/listened to this book at the end of 2025, and I haven’t shut up about it since. The premise itself is unique enough: six…
4 for May the Fourth 2026
While it makes sense to celebrate Star Wars Day on May the Fourth, it still amuses me that this holiday falls so close to the original release date of A…
The Cabin in the Woods: a brilliant subversion of tropes
“I thought there’d be stars. We are abandoned.” Another year, another 31 Days of Frights! This time around, I started off the gauntlet with a modern horror classic: The Cabin…
The Time Traveler’s Wife: a fate-driven romance in reverse
The Time Traveler’s Wife - BOOK (2003) Dead people need us to remember them. Even if it eats us. Even if all we can do is say ‘I’m sorry’ until…
Ballerina: a cliched return to the world of John Wick
While the miniseries The Continental showed us the backstory of Winston Scott, Ballerina is the more novel spin-off of the John Wick franchise, focusing on an entirely new character in…
Andor season 2 episodes 7-9: blood on the streets (but not the Empire’s hands)
It took me a while to finally watch the next three episodes of Andor. Despite liking this show, I was still sulking about Cinta. (And, as I said last time,…
Andor season 2 episodes 4-6: raise my hopes just to shatter them
Ah, Andor: politically relevant, emotionally weighty, cinematically gorgeous. Also: crusher of dreams, breaker of hearts, murderer of my soul. Well, let’s not get hyperbolic. Let’s just try to focus on…
Andor season 2 episodes 1-3: a slow burn with rising stakes
I remember finishing the first season of Andor in 2022 thinking “Wait what? What kind of an ending is that?” before realizing it wasn’t a miniseries: we had a second…
