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January 3, 2016
On expanding my horizons
In 2015, besides horror, I tried to pick a few other areas where my reading has been… lacking. Most obviously, those genres were poetry and romance. Still are. Probably forever — I don’t have a passion for either, but I will continue to look for small corners to enjoy. Poetry This issad. I am not […]
December 31, 2015
A year in reading, or, did I do anything besides read?
It’s clear I’m not going to finish another book this year — I’m only about halfway through Dune, and everything else can go hang in the meantime. (Spoiler: Dune is great!)Per my Goodreads tracking, I finished 76 books this year, which is a personal record in my GR history. This doesn’t count books I abandoned, […]
December 29, 2015
Inside my heart beats like a girl
Did you know No Cities to Love, the new album by Sleater-Kinney, came outthis year? Because I swear it’s been running in my veins for a decade. Just thinking about the fact that Sleater-Kinney came back together for an album and a tour after nine years apart turns up the little pilot light inside of […]
December 20, 2015
TWIR: Vattu is really good and you should read it.
This week has not been that heavy on reading. I don’t know what I’ve been doing instead. Forgetting to go to the library! Not going to the grocery store! Working! Holiday parties! Cat-bothering! Anyway, I did manage a few reading things of note. I finally sat down and read book one ofVattu. I’ve loved Evan […]
December 12, 2015
TWIR: A warehouse of delights
I have much less willpower than I think I do. Last weekend was Harvard Bookstore’s Winter Warehouse sale, which means I went, which means whoops I bought two books. Two is displaying incredible self-restraint. I bought a beautiful book of a new translation of selected tales from One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh. […]
December 8, 2015
Let’s talk about horror.
To repeat myself: I’ve been developingmy understanding of horror as a genre for a while now, and while I don’t feel like I’m muchcloser to unlocking the key to horror, I do have Thoughts. Thoughts about what breaks a horror story, and what strengthens it. Please, let’s talk about scary things! Verisimilitude is scary. Straight […]
December 3, 2015
SRIR: It’s been a while, okay?
That’s “Somewhat RecentlyIn Reading,” in case it wasn’t obvious. Over the past mumble mumble weeks I’ve been working through The Eerie Silence, a book about SETI and aliens and all this thinking behind it, in a very readable sort of way. I may be taking casual notes. I’ve never been a good student. But it […]
November 16, 2015
Bite-sized podcast reviews
It’s really hard not to compare things to Welcome to Night Vale, so I deeply apologize for the repetition. TANIS: I want to write something longer up about this show. Figure out all the ways it works for me where the Black Tapes didn’t. Then again, maybe as it goes on it’ll disappoint me too! […]
October 19, 2015
A post that is ultimately about Limetown
Inevitably, in the fall, I turn once again to horror. Desperate to find horror that scares me, that appeals to me, thatgets me. In the back of my mind I suspect that I’meither incapable of being scared by fiction or I’m fundamentally misunderstanding what people man when they talk about the effect horror has on […]
September 16, 2015
Obsession
One day recently, I was sitting at my desk, innocently doing some actual work, when out of nowhere I was struck by a thought. “I wonder if I beat my previous on-sub length at [market redacted]?” Oh no. Oh, honey, no. Don’t think about it! You submit, set a reminder to query according to the […]
