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May 16, 2019
Review ~ Life Moves Pretty Fast
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman For Hadley Freeman, movies of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, and Back to the Future; all a teenager … Continue reading Review ~ Life Moves Pretty Fast
May 13, 2019
Bout of Books 25!
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, Twitter chats, and a grand prize, but all … Continue reading Bout of Books 25!
May 12, 2019
Sunday Salon, 5/12/2019
Read Didn’t finish anything this past week. I did finally get into some short stories I haven’t read in the complete, unabridged Edgar Allan Poe that I’m reading. The delightful macabre surprise among the stories thus far is “MS. Found in a Bottle,” a creepier version of “A Descent into the Maelström.” Deal Me In: … Continue reading Sunday Salon, 5/12/2019
May 10, 2019
Mini Reviews ~ Two Classics
Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion. Driven by overwhelming … Continue reading Mini Reviews ~ Two Classics
May 5, 2019
Sunday Salon, 5/5/2019
Read Was it really only this past week that I read The Hellbound Heart? It’s been a long week. I talked about the Clive Barker novella in my Spring into Horror post. I also finished Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy, which I started back in February. I’ll maybe post about it this … Continue reading Sunday Salon, 5/5/2019
May 1, 2019
Spring into Horror Wrap-Up & Mini Reviews
April was a little…off for me. Or maybe, rather, I was a little off in April. I didn’t get going on Camp NaNoWriMo and my reading was kind of here and there. Even Dewey’s Readathon was sort of flat. On the horror front, I only read one thing on my initial TBR: Clive Barker’s The …
April 28, 2019
Sunday Salon, 4/28/19
Well, we had our first official 100 degree day on Friday, so here we go into the tough part of the year. I cross my fingers and hope I can stay productive. Read Finished Love & Mr. Lewisham this week and read the novella Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw. Hammers on Bone is the …
April 25, 2019
The Black Cat, No. 7, April 1896
Welcome to the 7th issue of The Black Cat and the Black Cat Project! This issue felt a little light even though it contained six stories and was about the same overall length as other issues. Maybe it was because all the stories were roughly the same length without one longer story. This was also …
April 21, 2019
Sunday Salon, 4/20/19
Read Finished the April 1896 issue of The Black Cat. I’ll have a review of that on Thursday-ish. Otherwise, I didn’t finish anything other than short stories this week. I picked 5♠ for Deal Me In this week: “Call for Help” by Robert Arthur from Alfred Hitchcock prestents: More Stories Not for the Nervous. This …
April 18, 2019
Review ~ I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some …
