A couple of weeks ago the Final Girls Berlin held an event-ful Midsummer weekend during which a collection of the festival's best folk horror short films were shown at the open air cinema Freilichtbühne Weißensee, as well as many super interesting talks (all free) were presented at the annual online Brain Binge event. I missed some of the Brain Binge Events, notably and sadly the "The Hills Are Alive: Singing and Screaming in Horror Musicals" which honestly sounds like fun, "The Bleeding Edge" about Menstruation in Horror, and the "Pitch Your Idea Workshop", which is a shame because although I usually stay at a safe distance to horror, and I am an avid reviewer and observer of the genre, I in fact do have a couple of ideas of my own and could use a hand in the realization.
Every year in June, at the middle of the road, I turn back to take a look at the year in horror and the books I have read so far, and since time is nothing but a blur these days, we're there already, if not a little late. In order to do so I answer a series of questions that we used to sum up our reading year/half year over at the Shine and Shadow reading group on Goodreads. At this point I have some bad news, though... At the beginning of this year I quit my role as admin of the group, as people returned to their normal lives and spent less and less time on Goodreads (and no need to say, reading less and less) and the workload of the group became much bigger - because nobody did the work anymore. Also people just stopped communicating and that was really frustrating and annoying. So, I jumped off that train although I loved my reading group and talking with people about the books we read together. But hey... Things always keep on changing and I hope that I'll find new peop...