EmilyAnn Raynor

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The August Bella Book Club Review | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Aiken Bella Magazine

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – by Grady Hendrix

Bella Book Club Monthly Selection by Nichole Miller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix, provides an unusual combination of classic horror and old Southern charm. Patricia Campbell is a stay-at-home mom who is trying her best to raise her teenage children and care for her senile mother-in-law. Her husband, a psychiatrist, is never home and is little help, and Patricia’s sanity is starting to run thin. After embarrassing herself at the snooty local ladies’ book club, she walks out to find some of the other members forming a new book group where she is introduced to true crime stories and a group of amazing women

Bella Book Host: Changing Ways We Consume Literature

As I have mentioned before, I am a huge fan of Audible. As a mom of two dancers, I spend a lot of time driving and waiting. Audible allows me to access a nearly endless list of audio books from my phone, in the car, in the studio waiting room, and while sewing. For a monthly charge I receive a limited number of credits included in my plan. This month, after realizing I had already used my credits catching up on speculative fiction series involving dragons and talking ships, I evaluated my options. I keep my in-person shopping limited these days, but Amazon had print and Kindle versions available, and

The Virus that Made a Doctor: Certainty from Uncertainty

Dr. Pierre Gaultier Jenkins’ letters home during the first wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic Saturday A.M. “Still in bed.” Dearest Father: I guess mother has rec’d my Special Delivery by now telling you all of my having the Spanish Influenza. Well I still have it and don’t feel much better to-day but don’t think it is of a very serious nature, at any rate it surely has knocked me out completely and am sore all over. There are about nine down with it now. Excerpt from Pierre Jenkins’ letter to his father, September 28, 1918. In 1918 my great grandfather, Pierre G. Jenkins, sixth of seven children, was not

Stranger Games | The Rise of eSports

When you think of sports, you might not think of the booming industry that is eSports. When you hear about games like Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), thoughts of teenage boys in their mother’s basement may come to mind, but these games have come a long way in the past 20+ years. D&D in particular has recently regained the popular culture spotlight through the wildly popular Netflix series Stranger Things. In the 1990s, before this most recent pop culture phenomenon, a grad student working toward his PhD in mathematics wanted to develop a game about programming robots. The company he pitched it to thought it would be too expensive, so he