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I’m Moving!!!!

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I keep trying to get back into my blog. I’m getting more comfortable with myself and I am putting myself out there more publicly and I want to get back to reviews and writing. Life has just been hard and for a time; my blog felt like a job. That took the fun out of it because my perfectionist self was so worried about having posts out on a regular schedule and for a while I was trying to do a post a day.  Not to mention all the groups I would get in to get my blog out there yet, people in the group would give me follows, but no one was actually reading my stuff. I’m not here for the fame or notoriety but I do like to interact with like minded people who want to have a discussion about a movie, book, or anything. I want to talk about why someone liked it or didn’t like what I post about. I’m not narrow minded, I’m happy to listen to others’ opinions and respect them as long as they aren’t condescending or mean when they give it.  Currently I’m most active on Twitter ( @brunnersbooks ) a
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Welcome to Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2

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Ice Nine Kills Welcome to the bar, pull up a stool and get ready to rock out!!! Since this is my favorite month out of the year, I’m hitting the reviews hard with everything spooky. I will get to the rest of the blog, sports, whiskey, and other books and movie reviews eventually.  This album came out October 15th and I have been waiting for this release a long time. Here is the great thing about Ice Nine Kills. Not only are they a kick ass metal band, but they have taken the horror genre to a whole new level. Their music is clever and the perfect complement to the classic horror movies fans love. I fell in metal love with these guys with their last album the Silver Scream. Ice Nine Kills writes songs based on the plots of horror movies. As Spencer says in “Hip to Be Scared” When the Silver Scream came out I think they really came into their own commercially and artistically.” No one could have said it better than the lead singer.  Some of my favorite songs before this album where Ameri
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My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

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My Heart is a Chainsaw Welcome to the bar, pull up a stool and I'll pour you a drink. Bear with me as I learn how to fully update my blog to what I want moving forward. It is great to be back if only for the fact that I'm happy to be writing in some capacity again. This is mostly for me because I have never been big on attention, but if I can also help get the word out on things that have left an impression on me either for the better or worse.  I'm super excited to make this review my first post of the new blog. I was taken aback at how much I loved this book. The last few chapters I had goosebumps everywhere as more and more was revealed leading up to the very satisfying conclusion.  So here is my dilemma. I really did love this book and I will flat out tell you know this is without a doubt 5 stars. However, I am so afraid if I say anything about this book it will ruin the joy you will get reading this book. So lets see how this works out. So first and most important, our
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I’m back and things are going to look a little different!!!

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Hello to all the people who still follow me and are not bots. It has been a long long time since I posted and so many things have changed.  *My kids have gotten so big and are entering new phases in school.  *My wife and I are coming up on our 16 year anniversary. *We bought our first house and got out of the apartment before the pandemic hit. *Oh yeah, the world split due to a deadly virus. (I’m not getting into that discussion). *Thanks to Twitter and a show on the Shudder network called “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” I met some of the most amazing and talented people ever who share my same warped love of horror. *Most importantly, the St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history, and I was at Enterprise Center watching it on the big screen with a packed house of screaming fans.  I was originally thinking about putting all the different things my life has become and why my blog is changing, but that is going to be way to long for one post. So l
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Batman: The Dark Knight: Master Race by Frank Miller

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Batman The Dark Knight I am a rare breed. I am one of the very few, if not only, person who read Fran Miller's The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel and hated it. I didn't like it so much I never read the follow up book The Dark Knight Strikes again. So you might be asking why on earth am I reviewing this book? I got caught up in the hype. I follow DC Comics on twitter, and I keep up with the DC Comics All Access app and every article and snippet of art wasn't missed when I was nerding out. Now I have been very fortunate to have been approved for books from DC Comics and Netgalley in the past, but I never expect to get anything I request. This was one book that I would have been fine if I got turned down but was still interested enough to want to read this.  Thank you DC Comics for the opportunity to read this book for a review. When I first opened the digital file and saw it was over 300 pages my first thought was what did I get myself into? Now that I have gott
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Wonder Woman Vol 3: The Truth by Greg Rucka

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The Truth I have been a fan of Wonder Woman for a long time. I'm one of those guys who has no issue with a strong female character. I love that Wonder Woman is getting the respect she deserves and the movie was fantastic. I'm the very proud father of a little girl and I'm so happy that she and my son take after their dad and love superheroes. My daughter always pretends to be Batman, or the Flash and never Wonder Woman. I want my daughter to be proud to be a girl and know that women can be strong too.  The writing on this series has been really good. The stories have been really well developed and have worked as a year one story re defining Wonder Woman. I wish there was a little more action. As of the last volume Diana has lost her mind. She has realized that she has been lied to and lost who she is. Now Steve Trevor and his team have to try and get to Diana before this secret criminal organization gets to her.  On the Paradise Island side something is cha
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Hal Jordan and the Grenn Lantern Corps Vol 3:Quest for Hope by RobertVenditti

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Quest for Hope I have been a fan of Green Lantern for a long time. I remember reading Kyle Rayner's stories and I remember Hal Jordan's Rebirth, so this book has all of my favorite Lanterns in it. This book marks some big changes in the world of the Corps. To be honest I missed Volume 2 for some reason. I thought I had read it and jumped at the chance to read this book. Thanks to Net Galley and DC Comics for letting me read this for a review.  Volume 2 apparently had another war with Sinestro which was won by the Green Lanterns. Leading the way Lantern John Stewart is head of the Green Lantern Corps and he gave the Sinestro Corps an ultimatum. Join the Green Lanterns and fight along side them or be arrested. While trying to play nice and build a bigger more unified Corps Kyle is tasked with finding the only Blue Lantern left. Hope is needed in the universe and the Guardians of the Universe are looking to find Saint Walker and try to help him grow Hope.  As you ca
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