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Monday Miscellanea, 11/7/22

Reading Dracula Daily finished this morning. If you hadn’t jumped in on the trend, since Dracula is epistolary in form, Dracula Daily sent out portions of the novel corresponding to days when the characters wrote letters and diary entries. Stoker’s form isn’t entirely chronological. He stays with characters through certain chapters of the novel instead […]

What I’ve Read & Watched, 11/4/22

Blog updates from me this month are probably going to be few and far between . . . Read It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese (Editor) It Came from the Closet was much more personal narrative-oriented than I expected. I felt that a wide range of LGBTQ+ perspectives were […]

Monday Miscellanea, 10/31/22

Nonfiction November Since I decided to do NaNoWriMo in November, I realized I probably don’t have time for proper weekly Nonfiction November posts, but I do want to give a shout out to the event and share what I’ve been reading this year. The month-long event kicks of at Doing Dewey, one of my favorite […]

Reading Notes, 10/27/22

Reading Having a reading hangover after readathon. Or at least a reviewing hangover. So here’s what I’m currently reading: Challenge Updates Beat the Backlog: It’s been 14 days since I acquired a book.

What I’ve Watched, 10/26/22

Movies Rope (1948)I had alternately heard that Rope, Alfred Hitchcock’s “long take, no cuts” experiment was a boring flop or tensely exciting. FWIW, I didn’t feel the sort of tension that usually comes with long shots, probably because, while there are very few cuts, the camera is still relatively stationary. The one unmasked cut that […]

Monday Miscellanea, 10/24/22

Readathon Wrap-Up Saturday was Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon. I managed about 21.25 hours, heading to bed just after 2am my time. That is pretty much how readathon always goes for me, though I only took a short nap in the morning. What did I read? I probably would have been better off DNFing My Heart is […]

Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon, October 2022

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Reading Notes, 10/20/22

(I’m playing around with my blog organization once again. This post will be a review and some repetition of my Monday post.) Read Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower I purchased this book in 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin. We were in Madison for the World Fantasy Convention and during […]

Monday Miscellanea, 10/18/22

Yes, Monday Miscellanea on a Tuesday. It happens sometimes. I needed to format and post the schedule for our ultimate frisbee league yesterday and I wanted a good day of fiction writing. With only so many hours and so much Katherine energy, my Monday post rightly took a back seat. Reading I’m still reading Teller […]

Watching Peril, 10/12/22

I Think We’re Alone Now Year: 2018Runtime: 1h 39mRated: R Director: Reed Morano Writers: Mike Makowsky Stars: Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paul Giamatti Initial: I didn’t know the release date of this film when I watched it. I thought for sure it was a pandemic film, considering the very small cast and subject […]