Status Updates From Boy in Darkness (Gormenghas...

Re-read. 1st read physical book via library loan. 2nd read audiobook via YouTube.

same time same place - much like the previous one, fear of the unknown or the strange will deprive you of love!

danse macabre - oooh i really liked that one! i thought i knew where it was going but it still managed to surprise me. one of those stories that i think different people will walk away with different interpretations of

the connoisseurs - peake is just playing with dialogue here and hes great at it, in some ways i wish this tone came out more in gormenghast

i bought a palm tree - incredibly funny and kind of incredible to read peake writing in such a different style! this is so plain compared to his usual but fitting for the plot such as it is and the humor

the weird journey - not as easy to understand as boy in darkness but still interesting. i found the imagery harder to picture which i think added to my puzzlement

boy in darkness- wow what a rich story, definitely one to take in and think about, more directly metaphorical or applicable than gormenghast. there were a couple descriptions peake used over and over so a little repetitive but still very good

He would be touching nothing less than flesh entirely human.

'That was our Master bleating.'

Rereading??