Book Review: Lockdown

Today I am reviewing the 1st book in a series of 5. The series is called escape from Furnace and it is a YA Horror series by Alexander Gordon Smith. This first book, as well as the series, follows Alex Sawyer. He is framed for a crime he did not

At the Gates

There I stand
Not knowing what awaits
On the other side
The grim reaper
Waiting behind

Book Review!!!

The Haunting of Hill House By Shirley Jackson

Perhaps one of my favorite books, this Gothic tale is about, well… a haunted house. The book even starts out very eerie, the opening paragraph reads

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and Katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill house, not sane, stood by itself against it’s hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut;silence lay steady against the wood and stone of hill house, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

This is the great beginning of such a eerie novel. It is also the end paragraph of the book as well. Which only adds to the eerie-ness of the story.

Gothic Romance

The sun rises on a cool
Crisp, Autumn day
Two college students
A boy and A girl
Head home

From a graveyard