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A to Z Blogging Challenge 2021: Horror Movies D

DeadTectives All the posts for this challenge. Or, find me on Letterboxd.

Reading Notes, 4/4/21

Currently Reading I didn’t finish reading anything this week, mostly because I’ve been getting my April blogging legs under me. On schedule with Children of Dune and started The Phantom of the Opera. Deal Me In 6♣️ – “My Body, Herself” by Carmen Maria MachadoThis is the first story I’ve read by Carman Maria Machado […]

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2021: Horror Movies C

Color Out of Space All the posts for this challenge. Or, find me on Letterboxd.

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2021: Horror Movies B

Blue My Mind All the posts for this challenge. Or, find me on Letterboxd. Off-Theme Horn Toot B is also for Bounded in a Nutshell, my anthology of short stories (mostly flash fiction). There are ghost stories, mythological musings, biblical retellings, and more! It’s available on Amazon for a mere 99¢ or free if you […]

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2021: Horror Movies A

Antebellum All the posts for this challenge. Or, find me on Letterboxd.

Reading Notes, 3/29/21

Finished Reading Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy *sigh* In general, high school English classes treated me pretty well. I wasn’t made to read Moby-Dick before I could appreciate it, was exposed to the requisite amounts of Steinbeck and Orwell, and lucked out to have not only Arthur Conan Doyle, but Bram Stoker and […]

Cinema Saturday, 3/27/21 ~ On what makes a “good” movie

Programming Note Starting this coming Thursday (April 1st), I’ll be participating in Blogging from A to Z. My theme, in honor of Halfway to Halloween, is horror movies. Therefore, in April, every day aside from Sundays, I ‘ll be blogging about a horror movie. On Sundays, I intend to post some reading notes and whatnot. […]

Reading Notes, 3/22/21

Finished Reading Nothing! Yeah, I’m a slow reader. I did read “The Sword of Parmagon” by Harlan Ellison from The Essential Ellison. It’s an extremely early work—written when the author was 15-ish. It’s fine; decent writing of basic fantasy/adventure tropes. I still need to read this month’s Willa Cather story. Deal Me In A❤️ – […]

Tales of an Unwieldy Library, pt. 3

Getting Distracted Along the Way Cataloging the books in the backroom/office has been a slower process than dealing with the rest of the apartment and the books I have in “storage” for the following reasons: Shelves: I don’t have many shelves and the ones I do have are often double stacked. Unshelving and reshelving books […]

Reading Notes, 3/15/21

Finished Reading I finished nothing in the past week, but I will be DNF-ing Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth by David Gessner. There are some tidbits of ultimate frisbee history, but it’s so repetitive. It did get me thinking about my relationship with the game. In a way, I feel kind of […]