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It’s Monday, What Are You… (10/2)

…Reading?    I started Slade House last week, but then skipped over to The Ballad of Black Tom, which I finished. Not sure what I think, thus far. It’s…quirky. I’ve also been working my way through two short story ARCs. And I’ll probably read other assorted short stories. The October Reading Club is back, but started out …

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Deal Me In, Week 39 ~ “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”

Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” by Arthur Conan Doyle Card picked: 10♥* From: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (I’d link to this story, but published in 1924, it isn’t yet in the public domain in the United States. Which is utterly ridiculous.) * Every-so-often, I …

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Review ~ The Ballad of Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father’s head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit …

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Writing Update, 9/27

Poking along with Wicked Witch, Retired. Lately, I’ve been splitting my time between writing WWR and doing a format and editing pass on Eric’s PHYSIC series. Surprisingly, I’ve found that I like working on two projects at once, though I don’t think I’d like *writing* on two separate projects. My intention was to finish the first draft  …

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Down the TBR Hole #3

This is a meme started by Lia at Lost in a Story. The “rules” are: Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last …

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Deal Me In, Week 38 ~ “Things You Can Buy for a Penny”

Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Things You Can Buy for a Penny” by Will Kaufman Card picked: 10♦ From: Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 57, Feb. 2015, (link to story) The Story I’ve been in the mood for light fantasy lately. Not quite fairy tales or their retellings, but fantastical stories that fairy …

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Perilous Updates, Week 3

Peril of the Short Story “William Wilson” by Edgar Allan Poe From comparatively trivial wickedness I passed, with the stride of a giant, into more than the enormities of an Elah-Gabalus. This is my first reading of this story. I haven’t come across too many doppelganger tales. Poe does this one up pretty well although …

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Review ~ Bird Box

Bird Box by Josh Malerman Something is out there… Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. …

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It’s Monday, What Are You… (9/18)

…Reading?    As expected, it didn’t take me long to get behind on my big, annotated Dracula, so that’s going on the back burning for the moment. I’m about a third of the way through Bird Box and I don’t know what I think. I didn’t expect so much of a post-apocalypse/survivalist vibe. Not a …

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Deal Me In, Week 37 ~ “The Witch”

Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Witch” by Shirley Jackson Card picked: 3♥ From: The Lottery, and other stories The Story Johnny is traveling by train with his mother and baby sister. Since the train car isn’t very full, Johnny is sitting on his own across the aisle. He says “Hi” …

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