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Books have been a part of my life from a very young age . I'm currently being ruled over by 3 cats (Rafferty, Bodhi Rook & Yersinia Pestis), who I can mostly get not to chew on book covers. Lately, I'll read anything, though Science Fiction and Romance will always be on the bottom of the pile.

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“To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”

Hungerstone: A Novel by Kat Dunn

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It’s the height of the Industrial Revolution, and ten years into Lenore’s marriage to steel magnate Henry, their marriage is basically in name only. Unable to bear Henry an heir, Lenore has fallen into a resigned depression, not helped by the severe cramps that every month brings. (Lenore ignores that “every month” seems to translate into “non-stop”.) When Henry’s ambitions to be excepted in society as more than nouveau riche drive him to purchase an estate in the remote British moorlands, a shocking carriage accident […]

“It’s like there’s something about me that just encourages people to want me dead. Probably my sparkling personality.”

A Divided Duty: An October Daye Novel (#20) by Seanan McGuire

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Four months after the events of Silver and Lead, October “Toby” Daye is settling into motherhood once again, now the bonus of not having to hide her or her child’s true nature from the other parent. Of course her life is even more dangerous now than it was when Gillian was young, so thankfully Toby has a full household to help her keep her daughter safe in the house, away from the terrors that Faerie has to offer. (Still trying to find that work/life balance, […]

“For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people’s way of committing suicide.” (“The Dreamers”)

Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen

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I have an almost forty-year history with Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen); I spent the night I was born apparently listening to my mother read Out of Africa/Shadows on the Grass out loud. (A year or two ago I managed to read them myself, as I hated not knowing how it ended.) Which sparked in me a curiosity to read some of her fiction, and this was the first book of hers I found in my TBR heap. Seven Gothic Tales, as the title suggests, […]

“The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.”

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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Every year, the small nameless village holds a lottery; they’ve done so for as long as anyone can remember, and it is well known that the results always help the harvest. Sure, there’s word that nearby villages are discontinuing the practice, but not here. It’s for the harvest you see, and the village, and it’s a very festive kind of day; heck, even the children get involved, piling up stones into neat little piles…. There is a reason that to this day, “The Lottery” is […]

You know it’s bad when the dog needs the leash for the human-shaped entity.

The Little Endless Storybook by Jill Thompson

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Can’t a dog take a pit stop without losing his charge? Normally you’d say yes, but when the dog is Barnabas, and the charge is Little Delirium of the Endless, of course it would happen. Now Barnabas, who is just a small, smart-mouthed dog, has to travel both the waking world and the strange and unlikely realms of her siblings to try and find his princess. It’s not easy being the puppy protector to the anthropomorphic personification of Delirium, especially when Barnabas keeps seeing a […]

“She closed the file and looked out at the sea, regarding it with distrust. It regarded her with the apathy of an ancient life source that didn’t really need to feel any particular way about the opinion of a being with a fraction of its size or lifespan.”

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death: A S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery (#2) by Maxie Dara

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Nora Bird works for S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), as someone assigns the actual Reapers to their files. A job that you might think a little strange for a woman who is terrified as death as she is, but at least Nora’s anxiety is secure in the knowledge that she’s doing everything she can to avoid dying. (The question over whether Nora is living or merely existing with this knowledge is not one that ever flashes across her mind.) See, ever […]



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