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In which Joe Hill takes one step closer to becoming the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator.

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

January 17, 2018 by scootsa1000 3 Comments

I’ve said this before: I can’t imagine it would have taken very long for the reading public to figure out that Joe Hill was really Joe King if he hadn’t admitted it himself. And in each book of Hill’s that I read, I see more and more of his dad in the writing. In fact, if you told me that two of the four novellas in Strange Weather had actually been written by Uncle Stevie, I would just nod, and say, “of course they were.” […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: #CBR10, joe hill, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, Strange Weather

scootsa1000's CBR10 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: #CBR10, joe hill, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, Strange Weather ·
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Audiobooks and Orphans

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Strange Weather; Seven Japanese Tales; Trash; Beasts of the Southern Wild by Rachel Joyce; Arthur Conan Doyle; Doris Betts; Dorothy Allison; Joe Hill; Junichiro Tanizaki

December 8, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Miss Queenie – 4/5 Stars This is a brilliant follow-up to The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry that came out a few years earlier. Like very few, but very potent sequels, this one eclipses the original. While the original book is heart-warming and touching, something akin to the Straight Story meeting BBC2, this book is downright beautiful and devastating. Harold Fry was about a man who receives a simple and cryptic postcard from a former colleague from the time he worked for a local brewery. His […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Doris Betts, Dorothy Allison, joe hill, Junichiro Tanizaki, Rachel Joyce, Seven Japanese Tales, Strange Weather, the love song of miss queenie hennessy, the memoirs of sherlock holmes, trash

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:478 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Doris Betts, Dorothy Allison, joe hill, Junichiro Tanizaki, Rachel Joyce, Seven Japanese Tales, Strange Weather, the love song of miss queenie hennessy, the memoirs of sherlock holmes, trash ·
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