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THE ARRIVAL by Shaun Tan

 

The Arrival by Shaun Tan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Last weekend, along with The Rabbits, we found this book during one of our Street Libraries adventures. It's actually a book I've had my eye on for a while but never picked up, so this was the perfect find.

This gets another wow from me because it's absolutely stunning. There's not a single word in this sad and wonderful story of hope and discovery, but every detail is still portrayed so well in each individual piece of lovely artwork.

I absolutely l...

THE RABBITS by John Marsden & Shaun Tan

 

The Rabbits by John Marsden
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

We found this beauty in one of our local Street Libraries and couldn't leave it behind. I'm really glad we grabbed it because it's a great book!

Wow.

This story might be brief, but it packs quite the emotional punch. Not just because the artwork is lovely and totally authoritarian, but also because this is the story of the shameful and disgraceful colonisation that happened all over the world.

It captures the forceful way empires invaded indigenou...

September's Revision Update!

 

Well, I know it's Thursday, but today I finished my latest Revision Project so I thought I'd pop in.
How are you?

The Covid situation around here still sucks. The numbers have been just below 1k daily this week and the vaccination numbers are going up, but I doubt I'll ever fully get over this pandemic. I intend to keep my distance, stay away from most public places and will avoid crowds forever. I've developed a serious case of people phobia and this virus scares the hell out of me. 😫

Anyway, I w...

The Revision Continues...

Hey! How are you this week?
I hope everything is okay in your corner of the globe while we try to navigate this very strange, weird and often shitty world of ours. 😦
Just when it feels like we might be making a bit of progress with this never-ending Covid situation, it all turns to crap all over again. Ugh. Here in NSW, we've managed to dip below 1k daily cases only once in several weeks. It's so frustrating and distressing, but the state government only cares about our vaccination numbers now. If...

September's Revision Begins...

[image error] Hey! How are you today? Can you believe we're halfway into this month already? Yikes. Time sure moves fast. 😕
Today, I'm not going to dwell on the Covid situation for long because we all know that between how infectious this Delta strain is, the useless government's lack of leadership, anti-vaxxers and selfish assholes, things aren't getting any better. Our numbers are constantly over 1k daily and this ridiculous never-ending mockdown just isn't working. Ugh.
Anyway, I took a three-week break afte...

EXPOSED NERVES by Lucy A. Snyder

Exposed Nerves continues the explorations into dark poetry by Stoker Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award nominee Lucy A. Snyder, pairing the author’s sly wordplay and imagery with grim introspection. By turns challenging, wryly amusing and gut-wrenching, Snyder’s work plumbs bittersweet catharsis and maps a survivor’s path through dangerous worlds, both the real and the horrifically imagined.

Around this time last year, I read a short story collection by Lucy A. Snyder that I enjoyed immensely...

WHEN THE CICADAS STOP SINGING by Zachary Ashford

 

When the poison gas first leaked out of the ground, they thought the horror would be over in no time.
But they kept dying.
When the lizard-men followed, swarming the land and picking off the survivors, those who remained were scattered to the hills and the forests.
Most did not last long.
But Cora, who found refuge and made a home in the mountains, where she lives with the memory of her dead son, still fights.
Tenacious, she lives wild and protects that home from the lizards who seek to kill her. Un...

WHEN THE CICADAS STOP SIGNING by Zachary Ashford

 

When the poison gas first leaked out of the ground, they thought the horror would be over in no time.
But they kept dying.
When the lizard-men followed, swarming the land and picking off the survivors, those who remained were scattered to the hills and the forests.
Most did not last long.
But Cora, who found refuge and made a home in the mountains, where she lives with the memory of her dead son, still fights.
Tenacious, she lives wild and protects that home from the lizards who seek to kill her. Un...

MONSTRUM POETICA by Jezzy Wolfe

 

When was the last time you walked through the woods? Checked under your bed? Walked down into your basement alone? Monstrum Poetica by Jezzy Wolfe is an invocation of boogeymen, a graveyard seance, a summons to horrors both large and small. This is a collection of poems that bite, scratch, snarl, and bleed. Filled with magnificent beasts and the sounds of cracked bones and broken teeth, Wolfe takes her readers through the folklore and mythology behind some of the world’s most terrifying creatur...

WALL OF DOLLS has a cover!

 

Well, a new week is here and I hope you're all having a good one. 😊

Over the weekend, the awesome Sci-Fi & Scary blog featured the Cover and Synopsis Reveal for my upcoming YA horror novel, WALL OF DOLLS.

In case you missed it, I'm posting it here as well:

For generations, the women of the Lucas family have lived in the small town of Whenall, Massachusetts, at Raven House. They make dolls that they call wardens to protect the townsfolk, a long tradition that some might believe holds no power, but ...