Hannah Atkins
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Hannah is a twenty-something born and bred Capetonian who adores reading and reviewing books, and encouraging critical discussion on all things pop culture. Currently a politics graduate student, she spent two years working in digital marketing before deciding she missed the student life. Loves QI, travel, dark chocolate, fantasy & YA books, pilates and sarcasm.

Welcome to Night Vale: An Overview

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE is a bi-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures…

Book Review: 99 Days by Katie Cotugno

Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that’s how I know everyone still remembers everything—how I destroyed my relationship with Patrick the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. How I wrecked…

The Film Canon: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, based on the Truman Capote short story of the same name, stars Audrey Hepburn in one of her most prolific roles as Holly Golightly, a flirty, ditzy socialite. (With an iconic black dress!) She is accompanied by a…

Book Review: The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows

Wilhelmina has a hundred identities. She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth…

Book Review: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach

Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel. They always say that high school is the best time of your life. Peter, the star basketball…

The Film Canon: Casablanca (1942)

Winner of three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director and Screenplay) and responsible for some of the most quoted movie lines of all time, Casablanca is well deserving of its status as a silver screen classic. The movie is based on…

Book Review: Conspiracy Girl by Sarah Alderson

Everybody knows about the Cooper Killings – the Bel Air home invasion that rocked the nation. There was only one survivor – a sixteen year-old girl. And though the killers were caught, they walked free. Now eighteen, Nic Preston – the girl…