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October 25, 2024
The Tomb by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
The Tomb by H. P. Lovecraft was written by him in 1917 and published in 1922. I’m reading it ‘out of order’ in that sense because I’m reading in publishing order. He was writing much better than this in 1922. So I have to be lenient with this. The Tomb is a fairly simple story.
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October 23, 2024
The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
The Nameless City is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1921. Lovecraft adored this story, which came to him initially in a dream. The world he creates here became the basis of many future stories. Unfortunately for Lovecraft, publishers just didn’t like it. Many publishers turned it down. If I had to
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The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft Review and AnalysisThe Nameless City
The Nameless City is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1921. Lovecraft adored this story, which came to him initially in a dream. The world he creates here became the basis of many future stories. Unfortunately for Lovecraft, publishers just didn’t like it. Many publishers turned it down. If I had to
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The Tree by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
The Tree, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, was written by him in 1920. This story is set in ancient Greece. It’s about two sculptors who are best friends, who live together in a house, and who support each other in everything they do. They’re not alike – one loves to party, while the
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October 22, 2024
The Picture in the House by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
It’s funny how used to Lovecraft’s casual racism I’ve gotten that my first thought on this short story was how much I enjoyed its writing and atmosphere. It’s only when I started going through the nitty-gritty of the storyline that I remembered how offensive many of the African details are, including the use of the
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The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Given how happy I’d been to read Ex Oblivione, and how unhappy I was with Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, reading The Terrible Old Man fell somewhere in the middle. And I suppose it’s sad that a fairly racist story now ends up in the ‘well it wasn’t THAT bad comparatively’
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
Wow. I had enjoyed Ex Oblivione so much. And then with the very next story we come to Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family. It is a real descent from a stunning high to a fairly grimy low. Still, we are reading these in order. Let’s take a look. This story is
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October 1, 2024
Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
My favorite story by H. P. Lovecraft so far, and we are up to story twelve in his writings. This is not a story about ancient castles or about muddy plains with octopus monoliths. It’s a story about feeling as if life is no longer worth living. It’s about escaping into dreams – and then
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September 20, 2024
Moving Books from Lulu to Amazon
New Twist in my stalled-for-10-years Low Carb project! Lulu, where I originally had published my paperbacks, has just SHUT DOWN all my low carb paperback books from global distribution. Suspicious. Now I have to race even faster to get them all loaded into Amazon, which I’d been handling at a reasonable, steady pace. I can
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September 14, 2024
Author Name Impersonation Issues – Lisa Shea Low-FODMAP Diet Cookbook
One of the downsides of being a reasonably well-known author is that scammers love to take advantage of your built-in name recognition to sell their own works. Over the years I have had ALL sorts of problems with scammers putting out books on my exact topic, using MY NAME, and in some cases using covers
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