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The Nightmare Factory Stares At The Yellow Wallpaper That Is A Head Full Of Ghosts

There is a thought so insidious it cannot be exorcised. It is a nagging mosquito deep inside your ear that asks endlessly, forever needling at your eardrums with its barbed insinuation, "Are you safe inside your own head?". The Nightmare Factory Book Club is here to answer that prickling discomfort definitively to the contrary. You … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Stares At The Yellow Wallpaper That Is A Head Full Of Ghosts →

Required Reading Revisited – January 2016

In The Required Reading Revisited Book Club we focus on books considered “Required Reading” by most educational institutions, i.e. books you read (or were supposed to read) in school – either high school or university. Our last meeting of the year was a rousing discussion of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. The novel itself has a number … Continue reading Required Reading Revisited – January 2016 →