Dear Reader, The Disney movie Peter Pan was one of the few movies I watched regularly as a young child. It also helped that there was a fantastic documentary, Making of Peter Pan, on the VHS. Half of the time I watched that tape for the documentary alone. The book Straight on Til […]
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Thoughts from a Disabled Writer A twisted review #7
Dear Reader, I was avoiding the movie, Frozen, for years because I had no interest in watching it. I only watched it recently to do a review of Conceal, Don’t Feel by Jen Calonita and I have to say I like this book better than the movie it is based on. In fact, […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer A twisted review #6
Dear Reader, When it comes to Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, I respect it for being the first feature film for the studio. I have seen it enough that I will probably not watch it again, until I have kids of my own. The book Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita asks […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer A twisted review #5
Dear Reader, When it comes to Disney’s The Little Mermaid, it is one of my top ten Disney films and probably the only film that has a good, straight to video, sequel. In the Twisted Tales universe Liz Braswell asks the question what if Ariel had never defeated Ursula? In the book Part […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer A twisted review #4
Dear Reader, The animated Disney movie Mulan was an interesting film. I enjoyed it but I thought the villain of that movie was one-dimensional. The book Reflection is a twisted tail version of this movie. Unlike the last three novels this is written by Elizabeth Lim. In this novel Mulan has to travel […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer A twisted review #3
Dear Reader, 1991’s Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney movie, and it is the reason I got into the series A Twisted Tale. The book As Old As Time is a darker retelling of Beauty and the Beast. The premise of this book is what if Belle’s mother was the enchantress […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer A twisted review #2
Dear Reader, The animated Sleeping Beauty movie by Walt Disney has always been a movie I never had a strong opinion of either way. After reading the book Once Upon a Dream by Liz Braswell I have more of an appreciation for the movie. This book takes place entirely while Sleeping Beauty is […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer A twisted review #1
Dear Reader, Lately I have been reading a great book series called A Twisted Tale. This series takes Disney animated movies and makes them darker. The first book in the series is called A Whole New World, this is based on the movie Aladin and uses the title of the main song from […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer #7
Dear Reader, If you were watching TV in the early 2000s then chances are you knew of the show CSI and its countless spin-offs. This year we had CSI: Vegas, a continuation of the original CSI with a couple of returning characters. In this blog post, I will review the story of CSI: […]
Thoughts from a Disabled Writer #6
Dear Reader, A few weeks ago, we had the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition. There are nine different versions of this game and despite it being released ten years ago people still buy it, myself included. If you want to know why this game is still being rereleased and […]