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“In the clear and steady gleam of electric lights, superstition turns to foolishness; in the crucible of the combustion engine, false beliefs are burned away.” (Bingos #9 & 10)

Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite by Zoraida Cordova & Natalie Parker (editors)

October 24, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My Halloween read this year is this collection of new vampire tales edited by the team of Zoraida Cordova and Natalie Parker. I enjoy vampire stores because they offer so many different views onto the human condition, if you go looking for them. In Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite Cordova and Parker, along with the assembled authors, take the time to dig in and explore these angles – with postscripts by Cordova and Parker after each story. Let’s handle individual stories in […]

I Should Have Known I’d Like It Just From the Title

July 23, 2018 by MrsLangdonAlger Leave a Comment

If you liked “The Hate U Give” and “Dear Martin” (and you should read both of those books if you haven’t already), you’ll like “Anger is a Gift”. What they are are essentially “issue books”, but good. Remember what “issue books” in the YA genre used to be like? Alternately melodramatic and saccharine, and inevitably preachy, I would groan every time I started a book on a topic related to social justice and realized it was meant to be more educational than well-written. You could […]

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