Please don’t be a Bystander. If you only do one thing, share the image above as widely as possible.
I am very aware that the timing of these events coincides with the release of certain files relating to Epstein. This is no doubt deliberate.
However my main concern right now, has to be preventing the mistreatment and murder of my fellow human beings.
Be Safe,
Antony
Reene Good – Poet
Alex Pretti – Nurse
What the HELL is going on in America? Unaccountable, armed, masked people under the guise of ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement), backed by the US Government, murdered the two above people.
Reene Good was a Poet. Alex Pretti was a Nurse. Both dead. Both murdered. In Alex’s case, there was plenty of video footage showing him shot multiple times in the back for trying to help a woman who was pushed to the ground by members of ICE.
Then the Government tried to brand Alex as a Home Terrorist. Officials made up all sorts of lies about him.
It’s really scary.
The USA isn’t a Democracy. Its become a Fascist Authoritarian State. One that murders its citizens. ICE people who have no respect for law and have completely dehumanising citizens.
It reminds me of Nazi Germany, prior to the second World War.
To all Americans: ICE, Donald Trump both need to go. Or next, it will be Concentration Camps.
Take Care All,
Antony
 |
In Derry a dark force has awoken, named It.
Seven children battled It twenty seven years before and almost beat it. This monster wakes every twenty seven years and murder, dismember and feed on children. It has the ability to change its form, to become the things that individual children fear and likes to take the form of Pennywise the clown. Then following a big event were It reaches its peak of activity, then the monster sleeps. This cycle has been repeating since before records began, but nobody likes to talk about it or write about it. It’s like all the citizens of Derry have willful blindness. It tells the story of Bill (Big Bill), Eddie, Richie, Bev, Ben, Stan and Mike. Their battle with It as children and their return to Derry as adults to face It again. |
As adults will they have the same magic that they had as children to beat It? And this time, will they be able to finish what they started twenty seven years ago?
This book is way too long. It has 1,166 pages and the reader will find themselves counting down the pages. The plot is simple, most of the book is character development, rather than storytelling. Whole sections of this book could be cut without any interfering with the plot and would still have give the reader a good sense of each individual character. The description was overly wordy at times.
There are some iconic horror scenes that will stay with the reader long after they have read the book. These scenes would lend themselves brilliantly to film, which is why it is no surprise that it was recently made into a film.
Overall what made It mildly enjoyable was getting to know the characters. The plot lacked any captivating moments, twists or turns. This story could easily have been told in a standard novel size, rather than this massive book. Inadequate editing and seemingly no harsh cutting let this book down.
It is available to buy on Amazon and at all good book shops.
Review soon,
Antony
 |
In The Graveyard Book, Nobody Owens (also known as Bod) is saved from murder by Ghosts. As a toddler, Bod, crawls out of his cot and walks up the hill to The Graveyard in the dead of night. Meanwhile his family are being murdered in their sleep by a man named Jack.
Jack tracks Bod up to The Graveyard. The ghosts save Bod’s life after Mrs Owens makes a promise to the Spector that is Bod’s mother. The ghosts agree to raise Bod and grant him the Freedom of The Graveyard. Bod is to be raised by ghost surrogate parents Mr & Mrs Owens, with Silas who belongs to neither the world of the living or the world of the dead acting as Bod’s Guardian. This is the start of a truly remarkable adventure story. Bod is taken through a gravestone that leads to a desert and city of the ghouls, he develops a friendship with a dead Witch and a living girl, he is taught how to fade, he goes to an ordinary school and uses |
fear and dreamwalking to deal with bullies, he learns the ways of The Sleer and finally learns the truth of why his living family was murdered, why the man Jack is still after him and has to fight off The Jack’s order.
The Graveyard Book is the most wonderfully imaginative story that I’ve read in a long time. As the plot unravels the reader is captivated throughout and ponders on the mystery of why the man Jack murdered Bod’s family and why he continues to search for Bod to finish the job of wiping out his family.
The characters are superbly surrounded in mystery with hidden talents that make each character brilliant.
The Graveyard Book has made it on to my top shelf – where I keep my favourite books and there is no doubt in my mind that it is a book I will read again and again. It was a book that I honestly didn’t want to ever end.
At the end of the book, in an acknowledgments section Gaiman writes that this book was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, that Gaiman read as a child, and also inspired by his own children at a certain age. This inspiration shines through as I found myself thinking that The Graveyard Book reminded me of the story of The Jungle Book, way before getting to the end acknowledgements section.
I would highly recommend that anyone and everyone reads The Graveyard Book, which is available to buy on Amazon and at all good book shops.
Review soon,
Antony
Antony Simpson - Author, Blogger, Nurse & Witch.
Author of eight books.
Antony Simpson is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk.
Unless Otherwise Stated, Copyright © Antony Simpson, 2008-2026.
