![]() ![]() At times they feel like the black and white photographs of Matthew Genitempo in Jasper, a book that was reviewed in The New Yorker. ![]() There are more than moments of strangeness and indecision. Most of Angela Mitchell’s characters in this debut collection are caught in that predicament. The woman feels strange about the situation, a strangeness intensified by the remoteness of the place she’s in: “She was somewhere she’d never been before, miles, probably, from the nearest highway, deep in the Arkansas woods.” She has awakened the bobcat now, looking at her like an unwanted third-party on the man’s bed, a rival. Soon, awkwardness enters the scene, the moment the woman wakes up after her nap and feels the bobcat’s belly moving up and down beside her, instead of her date. The man loves animals and keeps them in his house, including birds and snakes, but the bobcat is special. There is a scene in Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories where a bobcat lounges on a bed between a man and a woman. ![]()
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![]() Nineteen complete comic strips from the original Skywald horror magazines, forming a "best of" Skywald ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() From his early years with Marvel through to Warren and HP Lovecraft, Alan Hewetson tells the complete, behind-the-scenes story along with all the Skywald writers and artists, special features and unpublished artwork-plus NINETEEN ORIGINAL HORROR-MOOD STORIES to assault your Primal Spinal ! Long overdue, this book is the first to chronicle the amazing publishing house, its influence and its top writers and artists. With many enduring characters and stories-such as The Human Gargoyles, The Saga of the Victims, The Heap, the Shoggoth series, Lady Satan, Nosferatu, Monster Monster and Hell-Rider-Skywald continues to stand the ravages of time more than a quarter of a century later. Lasting only a few years, these comics established themselves as something wholly unique thanks to the editorship of ‘Archaic Al’ Hewetson, whose dark and perverse in-house style became known as the HORRORMOOD. ![]() ![]() In the early 1970s a small New York publishing company produced the ghastliest horror stories in the history of illustrated horror. Nightmare-Psycho-Scream-Hell-Rider-The Crime Machine The inside story of a uniquely influential horror comic publisher ![]() ![]() ![]() I read all kinds, not only fantasy classics, crime stories, recent trends. And there was Netflix, and video games, and movies, and the multitude of distractions the internet has to offer which all I preferred over reading books.This went on for a few years, but for 2020 I decided to read at least one full book per month. I'd start a few books sometimes, but take months to slog through one. In university I had to read a lot, and now for work, I have to read/proofread big amounts of (non-fictional) texts every day, so I was tired of reading in my freetime. Like so many people in adulthood, I have fallen out of reading in the last several years. I've been only an occasional lurker here, but since I've finished this book I really liked, and since I've read in the sidebar that opinion/review posts are accepted and even encouraged here, I've decided to finally engage. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was eerie to hear them say: ‘The bats are very bold this year that one nearly knocked my glasses off.’ It was amusing to see his friends, the grocer and the carpenter, walking in their gardens, and to fly just over their heads. ![]() ![]() Kay put on his pair of fox-eye spectacles and followed him. Kay found that it was really quite easy after the first attempt. ‘Just try flying from the bed to the window-ledge,’ he said, ‘and then fly back once or twice. ‘I’d love to come,’ Kay said, ‘it is most frightfully kind of you to think of me.’ We live in an interesting old place wich you might like to see, and I’ve brought you a suit of wings, in case you care to come.’ ![]() ‘I’ve come from my friend Tom Otter we thought what fun it would be if we could persuade you to spend an evening with us. Now here was a bat actually crawling along his bed to him. He had always longed to be a bat, so that he could fly in the twilight and hook himself up head downwards somewhere high up in a steeple when he was tired. He had always loved bats, because of their bright eyes, cocked ears, and nice leathery umbrellary wings and the little hooks to them. When his eyes grew accustomed to the light he saw that there was a bat in the room. When he woke, the room had something in it that was fluttering and battering against the ceiling and the walls. He had not slept for long before a shrill crying sounded in his ears. ![]() ![]() Something to think about.Īnyway, I strongly recommend it. They also share a surrealistic narrative set in a pastoral,sheltered,dystopian environment. I am curious whether or not Les Guerilleres influenced the Louis Malle film Black Moon in any way they share in common a brutal war between the sexes and both emphasize the female side. I love creative formatting used within prose narratives, so these interludes were exciting. A lot of gorgeous pastoral,post-apocalyptic imagery punctuated by pages featuring either large letter "O"s (which,in the book, are vulval symbols) or columns of female names both elaborate and mundane (Clytemnestra, Anne,etc etc). It avoids the "men are pigs" cliche, even when the Amazonian barbarian babes are spearing them down,flaying them open, and tanning their hides. ![]() It handles militant feminism in a palatable and beautifully written way that I don't find at all isolating or discomforting. ![]() This book really deserves a review more in-depth than "lyrically written disjointed barbarian woman vignettes," but that's all I got right now. ![]() ![]() Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another’s lives. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul. Publishing Info: Simon & Schuster, July 2020īook Description: A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. So feel free to read along with us or use our book selections and questions in your own book club!īook: “Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close” by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman We’ll also post the next book coming up in book club. Our current theme is “Outside the Genre Box”, in which we each picked a book from a genre or format that we don’t usually read.įor this blog, we will post a joint review of each book we read for book club. ![]() Each “season” (we’re nerds) we pick a theme and each of us chooses a book within that theme for us all to read. We are part of a group of librarian friends who have had an ongoing bookclub running for the last several years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Kingkiller Chronicle consists of two published books and one upcoming book: The books are known for their intricate and detailed world-building, with a complex magic system and a deep history. The books are full of action, adventure, romance, and mystery, with a richly imagined world and a cast of fascinating characters. ![]() The Kingkiller Chronicle follows the story of Kvothe, a talented musician and wizard, as he recounts his adventures to Chronicler, a scribe who has come to write Kvothe’s story. He is best known for his Kingkiller Chronicle series, which has won numerous awards and has been praised for its immersive world-building and intricate storytelling. Patrick Rothfuss is an American writer and professor of literature. The third and final book, The Doors of Stone, has yet to be published. The first book, The Name of the Wind, was published in 2007, followed by The Wise Man’s Fear in 2011. ![]() The Kingkiller Chronicle is a trilogy of fantasy novels written by Patrick Rothfuss. ![]() If you’re new to The Kingkiller Chronicle, this guide will help you get started. The books are set in a detailed and intricate world, full of magic, music, and adventure. The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss is a popular fantasy series that has captivated readers around the world. FallenKingdomReads’ Beginner’s Guide to The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Glancing up at him, she saw the red lipstick mark was still on his cheek but faded. It practically swallowed her hand, making her feel incredibly delicate. She had no idea that his hands were that big and warm. Jack’s free hand came to rest on her hip, causing her to jump and him to grin widely. The other, he held in his other hand gently. He took her hand in his and put it on his shoulder. Laughing, she waved a finger at him knowing he’d won this round and bested her. “Good, now loosen up and enjoy it.” Jack spun her around once and pulled her into his arms. You look plain scared of me and a little bit of boot scootin’.” “Think of it as another one for your bucket list, Miss Charlie. I will lead us, and you just let me do the dancing,” he offered politely with a teasing glint in his eyes. She pulled back nervously, feeling her stomach rebel briefly. “I really can’t…wait!” she balked as he took her hand and led her out onto the floor. “Yes, you! That’s what people do at these things. “People should want to do things and experience life. “Nice.” He nodded approvingly with a smile. I could check it off my bucket list that I’ve gone to one and satisfied my curiosity.” ![]() “Well, because I could go and I’ve never been before. She’d rather sit at home watching Jeopardy or some old re-runs. While it was exhilarating, it wasn’t her thing. She realized that people must go for the thrill of excitement and the sport. ![]() “Why’d you come then?” he asked, looking surprised at her answer. ![]() ![]() John grew up living in several places including Pensacola, San Diego, and Midway Island. Hemry, also served in the navy and as John points out was a mustang. John G Hemry is a retired United States Navy officer. He has also written over a dozen short stories, many published in Analog magazine, and a number of non-fiction works. Under the name Jack Campbell, he has written four volumes of the Lost Fleet series, and on his website names two more forthcoming volumes. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer, he has written the Stark's War and Paul Sinclair series. ![]() Hemry is an American author of military science fiction novels. ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Jack Campbell is a pseudonym for American science fiction author John G. ![]() ![]() ![]() Terrified, she knows she has a part to play, and when she does so, she finds a heritage that she never expected. But along with hundreds of very unstable patients, it also has underground tunnels, bell towers that ring unexpectedly, and a closet that holds more than just donated clothing.When the dead husband of one of Forest's patients makes an appearance late one night, seemingly accompanied by an agent of the Devil, Forest loses all sense of reality and all sense of time. ![]() Lincoln is a huge state mental institution, a good place for Forest to make some money to pay for college. Not that Forest, an 18-year-old foster kid who works the graveyard shift at Lincoln Hospital, knew this when she applied for the job. It is a crossways, a place where the dead and the living can find no peace. ![]() |