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Clown in a Cornfield: The Corniest Novel Hits the Big Screen

Clown in a Cornfield hits the big screen today. It’s the perfect teen slasher to kick off summer. Bringing equal parts mystery, teen drama, and comedy. In fact, it’s a bit of a shame that they went for the R rating, given that this would be a great horror movie for most teenagers who, because […]

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Until Dawn Movie Review: Every Day Is A New Death

Until Dawn started out as a 2015 video game by the same name. The player’s goal was to see if they could keep all the characters alive, well, Until Dawn. Quick time events, a myriad of player choices, and some surprisingly tense sit still while a terrifying monster hovers over you moments made up the

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Influencing Death Review: An Unexpected Memoir

Between watching our studios dances and chaotic renditions of The Wobble as a hundred dancers waited for adjudications to begin, I finished TikTok influencer Penny Hawkins Smith‘s (@HospiceNursePenny) book Influencing Death. When the book arrived, I was expecting something akin to Mary Roach’s Stiff or Spook, but obviously the before death portion. Mostly informative, but

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Book Review: Is There Something In The Walls?

This one is a long time coming. Life has been life and there is nothing like a family plague of norovirus to keep a blogger down. (Also, apparently it can give you a rash that looks like measles or chicken pox or possibly yersinia pestis and require you to rush your child to kids express

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We Need to Talk About Family Vloggers Part 2

Read Part 1 here. The second half of Sheri Franke’s book, The House of My Mother, is both more intense and more personal than the first. It is during this section where we witness the downfall of her mother, Ruby, as the authorities finally take action against her abuses and bring charges against Ruby for

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We Need to Talk About Family Vloggers Part 1

Sheri Franke’s book, The House of My Mother, released this past Tuesday, and it details her experience as the child of a family vlogger. I put it as an add-in book with my Book of the Month selection, expecting it to be both distressing and enlightening. I’ve seen videos of Sheri, now an advocate for

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