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Category: Book Reviews

Review – On Writing

Posted on October 15, 2026

King combines stories from his life with a practical master class on the art of writing. The result is a list of recommendations of what writers should and should not do, based on his own preferences and experiences.

Review – Child of God

Posted on October 14, 2026

After losing his land and home in 1960s Tennessee, a violent and isolated backwoods outcast descends into total madness, becoming a cave-dwelling serial killer and necrophiliac.

Review – Julius Juliuis

Posted on October 13, 2026

Inside the world’s oldest advertising agency—a surreal architectural wonder as old as Western civilization—three distinct employees across different eras grapple with bizarre absurdities, hauntings, and moral compromises while fulfilling their professional duties.

Review – The Hum and the Shiver

Posted on October 12, 2026

When a fierce, pure-blood Tufa soldier is discharged back to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she finds her toughest battle isn’t the war she left behind, but surviving ominous death tokens, a dangerous ex-boyfriend, and her own forgotten magic.

Review – The Dog Stars

Posted on October 8, 2026

After a pandemic wipes out nearly everyone on Earth, a grieving pilot who lives in an abandoned airport with his dog and a weapons-expert neighbor risks everything—flying past his point of no return—to locate the source of a mysterious voice on his airplane radio.

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