George Boundy
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Writer, actor, food enthusiast, daschound lover. Instagram: gbvboundy
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Book Review: 'The Couple Next Door'
The Couple Next Door is the debut thriller from Shari Lapena, and my oh my, does it pack a punch! The book follows the lives of Anne and Marco—a suburban couple—through the most harrowing ordeal any parent could imagine: The Kidnap of their baby daughter. Lapena cleverly draws us into the seemingly pleasant world of middle America with a host of first-world problems appearing to be the only threats to this couple's marital and parental bliss. But even before the end of the first chapter, we see that things are perhaps not as they seem. Anne and Marco return home from their neighbour's dinner party to find the front door open and their baby, Cora, missing. They had checked on her only half an hour earlier, but now, she is gone.
By George Boundy5 years ago in Geeks
Average Boy, Looking
Jacob was your average sort of guy. Or at least that's what he told people, and the people believed him. Sitting in a coffee shop on a Wednesday afternoon in March, he realised for the first time that perhaps he was not what you might call, average.
By George Boundy5 years ago in Humans
The Perfect Dinner Party
Whether you're new to hosting dinner parties or a seasoned pro, whatever the level of your culinary skill, we all have the same goal at heart: how to create the perfect dinner party. It's an art in itself. Selecting the right menu, deciding on which drinks to serve, the delicate act of selecting your guests, setting the mood; and finally, hosting. In the age of the cooking show, we all obsess with our level of skill in the kitchen, yet a dinner party is made or broken not just by the quality of the food, but by the efforts and attitudes of the host. In this article—dare I title it so? In this musing upon the perfect dinner party, I shall impart what I have learned on the subject and hope to offer some advise to those struggling to hit the mark.
By George Boundy6 years ago in Feast
In the Name of Art #3
The coffee was good, Harriet had to admit, and Daniel made it well though the conversation left a lot to be desired. He had prattled on for almost three quarters of an hour about the flowers in the park nearby and how he loved that the gardeners there made sure something was in bloom all the year round.
By George Boundy6 years ago in Journal
In The Name of Art #2
Daniel put down the phone and sighed. It was an old phone from his grandma's flat. White plastic, with a ringlet of a cord that had gone from white to grey with time. The handset was yellow from nicotine and sweat and sin. The sins were all his.
By George Boundy6 years ago in Journal
Is 'ACS: The Assassination of Gianni Versace' EXACTLY What the LGBT+ Community Needs Right Now?
Like many avid TV viewers, LGBT or not, I've been glued to American Crime Stories: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, starring the charismatic Darren Criss as serial killer Andrew Cunanan. Apart from being a compelling and sinister true crime series, the piece highlights a number of key issues for the gay community (the show primarily features gay men, mostly white gay men, so we're not likely to see any Trans issues or issues surrounding gay people of colour here). For example we see the trails of being a Gay man during the HIV/AIDS epidemic; how gay couples struggle to function in a world that denies them equality and frowns upon their "lifestyle," and the way the police treat crimes involving gay people.
By George Boundy6 years ago in Geeks
In The Name of Art
Harriet was walking fast toward Tottenham Court Road station in an effort to waste as little time as possible travelling. Although she had not volunteered herself for this task she was getting quite excited at the prospect of meeting him in person and hadn't argued at sacrificing her lunch break for the endeavour.
By George Boundy6 years ago in Journal