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A list of the books I actually own is on LibraryThing.]]> F Glendale, CA 10/2007 12/2009 12 191 139 true 5729370 read 4 true 1138544 currently-reading 48 true 1138543 to-read 34 false 3408890 nonfiction 22 false 3408887 horror 7 false 3408900 foodie 5 false 3408895 india-and-bollywood-related 2 false 3753792 abandoned-in-a-fit-of-ennui http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/255617-defining-the-integral-elements-of-the-horror-genre http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1260809165p2/108.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:37:52 -0800
I mostly ENJOY the supernatural stuff more than the slasher stuff, though!

I think it's not horror if it doesn't excite a sort of creeping unease that murder mystery type stuff usually doesn't, no matter how gory it is. Things should feel, not just dangerous, but WRONG -- violating our sense of how the world works. Uncanny, or like the big disquisition in House of Leaves about the meaning of "unheimlich" (unhomelike).

That's why a story about someone's bad, painful death trapped in a crashed car on fire, or something natural like that, can be disturbing and painful to read, but it's not a horror story. The death is unpleasant, but mundane. But someone who is physically untouched, but there's SOMETHING in their house that whispers sometimes in their ear just when they're on the verge of sleep, and that something isn't human ... that's horror, even if there's not a drop of blood spilled in the whole thing.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/247539-so-many-lost-books http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1256928122p2/1112.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:19:03 -0800
Some of the books back in print:

The Melendy series by Elizabeth Enright, plus pretty much everything she ever wrote.
The Alan Garner Weirdstone series.
The 13 Clocks.
Most of the Zilpha Keatley Snyders have been rereleased, although I think Season of Ponies is still MIA -- you can get The Velvet Room in a new edition, though.
Most of Eloise Jarvis McGraw's fantasies and historicals
Julie Andrews' books
Elizabeth George Speare's entire ouvre, I think.
Even the first 12 Cherry Ames are back! I need to buy a set of those, I just loved them.


All the Beverly Cleary, most of the Lloyd Alexander, Edward Eager, John Bellairs, and the Dark Is Rising series never went OUT of print, as far as I know.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7129-alice-water-s-the-art-of-simple-foods http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1187801158p2/750.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:08:31 -0800
I have to admit, I DO live in California, so I can get great seasonal produce.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/255206-what-is-your-favorite-horror-book-that-you-read-in-2009 http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1260809165p2/108.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:04:54 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/252257-what-s-one-thing-you-do-that-doesn-t-give-away-that-your-a-horror-nut http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1260809165p2/108.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:48:51 -0800
My most Grannyish un-horror hobby is counted cross-stitch and fancy needlework. I keep wanting to design an Edgar Allan Poe tribute in cross-stitch, with a bust and a raven sitting on it ...

Oh, and I love little fuzzy animals and so forth. My daughter has guinea pigs and those little critters are so CUTE, I end up taking them out and cuddling them as much as she does. Even in horror novels and movies, I prefer it if nothing bad happens to the pets.]]> The Dogs of Babel (Paperback) by Carolyn Parkhurst]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61185929 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171163274s/89691.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:09:15 -0800 more...]]> The New Life (Paperback) by Orhan Pamuk]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81084101 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485549s/11694.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:55:58 -0800 Revolutionary Road (Paperback) by Richard Yates]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81083519 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170354199s/48328.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:55:35 -0800 more...]]> John Henry Days (Paperback) by Colson Whitehead]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76495559 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166720303s/16276.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:47:22 -0800 more...]]> Being Dead: A Novel (Paperback) by Jim Crace]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76495515 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171249182s/92559.jpg 590841 Cathy http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1193847833p2/590841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/590841-cathy Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:22:59 -0800