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I liked this weird little gremlin book.

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

February 9, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

To be clear, the book isn’t about gremlins, I’m just calling it a gremlin book because it’s weird and small and has claws but is also kind of harmless and laughable in the right light. Also also, gremlin is a fun word to use. This book is impossible to *really* talk about without spoilers, so I’m going to have a pretty big spoiler section and a smaller non-spoiler section in this review. I will try to keep the spoiler section relatively spoiler-free in the sense […]

Area X and its “poisonous” snakes (eye twitch)

February 4, 2016 by MacrameTrumpToupee 10 Comments

Thirty years ago, a mysterious border appeared, cutting off an isolated area of coast and swampland which has come to be known as Area X. Area X appears normal from the outside, but it’s not. Expeditions are sent in regularly to gather samples and to try and understand the changes taking place in this landscape. Sometimes they return, sometimes they don’t. Those who return are changed. Annihilation is the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy. It focuses on the 12th expedition, made up of […]

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January 22, 2016 by sistercoyote 1 Comment

Hello, dear listeners fellow readers (even though we know the City Council has declared books to be Dangerous whether they are working or not) and Welcome to Night Vale.

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Made a mistake - there's no 'the' in the title. And the book had me at the cover too.
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on A family can be two sisters, one of those sister’s descendants, two other sisters, a magic whale, a sentient island, an omnipotent museum, and academic papers
You had me at the cover, and then everything else you said.
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Area X and its “poisonous” snakes (eye twitch)

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