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Mixed Bag II

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

How it Ends by Rachel Howzell Hall

Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

April 7, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones – 3/5 Stars This short novella by Stephen Graham Jones takes two familiar genres, or sub-genres, and puts them together in a space that is interesting, if limited. For one, we have a haunting. In this novella, a 12 year old boy becomes increasingly aware of some kind of supernatural manifestation in his house. Through guesswork and experience, he determines it must be the ghost of his dead father. This guesswork leads the book into its secondary genre, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alain de Botton, rachel howzell hall, Stephen Graham Jones

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:158 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alain de Botton, rachel howzell hall, Stephen Graham Jones ·
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Assorted Short Fiction II

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

Yard Work by David Koepp

Anonymous by Uzodinma Iweala

There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed by Edgar Cantero

The Remedy by Adam Haslett

Falls the Shadow by Skip Horack

Screwball by Simon Rich

The Beckoning Fair One by Dan Chaon

Q&A by Ben Winters

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

Decorum at the Deathbed by Josh Malerman

April 2, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Night of the Mannequins – 3/5 Stars – Stephen Graham Jones This is a newish novella from Stephen Graham Jones that you’ll have to roll with the bad title and go with it because it does some very interesting things. It has a significant flaw by the end, and the way I will describe that is that it either doesn’t trust the audience or trust itself to make the more interesting choice. The plot involves a group of teenagers, friends and frenemies, who friend works […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adam haslett, Alfred Uhry, Alyssa Cole, Ben Winters, Dan Chaon, David Koepp, Edgar Cantero, josh malerman, simon rich, Skip Horack, Stephen Graham Jones, Susan Glaspell, uzodinma iweala

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:142 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adam haslett, Alfred Uhry, Alyssa Cole, Ben Winters, Dan Chaon, David Koepp, Edgar Cantero, josh malerman, simon rich, Skip Horack, Stephen Graham Jones, Susan Glaspell, uzodinma iweala ·
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the only Scream sequel I need

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

February 21, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Take the meta-horror-commentary of Scream and dial it up to eleven; there at the top of the stairs, silhouetted in moonlight and brandishing a rusty machete, you will find The Last Final Girl. Stephen Graham Jones is leaning hard into the tropes of teen slasher movies, and if you aren’t in on the joke it will fly over your freshly-severed-by-garage-door-head. The story is presented almost as a film treatment; close ups, pans, POVS, and audience responses are all written in and used with cheeky abandon. […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: audiobook, black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: audiobook, black comedy, dark humor, friday the thirteenth, gore, halloween, horror homage, horror movies, meta, michael jackson, michael myers, murder, scream, scream queens, slasher films, Stephen Graham Jones, teen movies ·
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WHAT DID I JUST READ

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

February 6, 2021 by bonnie 3 Comments

THIS BOOK IS BONKERS. My husband had so much fun watching me read it, especially when a Part would come up that made me shout “Oh, no!” or give a start at something that had just unfolded. I texted my sister throughout with many exclamations or observations. I noted that this book reminded me a LOT of Jordan Peele’s movies or Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. I’m not a usual fan of horror, but this book compelled me from beginning to end. I’m not going to say […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: bonnie, Native American Literature, Stephen Graham Jones

bonnie's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Horror · Tags: bonnie, Native American Literature, Stephen Graham Jones ·
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Started November 12th. Finished January 12th. The breaks in reading were NECESSARY

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

January 12, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

…but the journey was worth it. This book is brutal. If you are sensitive at all to suffering- be it human, animal, generational, cultural- turn away now and do not look back. Four Blackfeet men engage in a bit of last-minute less-than-legal Elk hunting the weekend before Thanksgiving. What happens that day never really leaves them, but what they left behind comes rocketing back into their lives 10 years later. The 10 years since that day have not been easy; the men are plagued by […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: American Indian, audio, blackfeet, book riot read harder challenge, cultural identity, folklore, generational trauma, gore, graphic violence, legend, murder, native voices, Own voices, paranormal, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Stephen Graham Jones, supernatural, survival, thriller, tradition

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: American Indian, audio, blackfeet, book riot read harder challenge, cultural identity, folklore, generational trauma, gore, graphic violence, legend, murder, native voices, Own voices, paranormal, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Stephen Graham Jones, supernatural, survival, thriller, tradition ·
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