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When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she …
There was no cell signal. I cursed my carrier and shoved the phone back in my pocket.
Setting the stage for some creepy shenanigans
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
This is one of those books I finished with a profound sigh and a feeling of loss
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
“I disliked her with every fibre of my body. She is cold, arrogant, and condescending; she cares nothing for anything of importance; and she thinks I am stupid.”
“Oh,” said Tal, “so you were colleagues.”
Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But …
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
To live a mortal life is to yearn for completeness, and there is nothing in mortal life which satisfies that particular hunger.
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
Niranthos had some kind of dire administration job in the Citadel
The most fearsome summon: Dire Administrator
Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. …
You might describe Csorwe as wiry but only in the sense that a steel cable is technically a wire
Shuthmili was a grown woman, and didn’t have a crypt to escape into.
Give 👏 grown 👏 women 👏 crypts
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
Currently on sale at Kobo: wandering.shop/@older/109706894307305724
He must have swabbed up old age, like a sponge, by touching too many old books.
Same, but with computers
Content warning spoiler
One was missing a tusk altogether, making his face look oddly lopsided, half formed. Csorwe felt a twinge of sympathy, trying not to imagine how it must have felt to lose one.
That foreshadowing
@CorinnaBechko@books.theunseen.city I enjoyed it - it's a bit of a crime thriller in a scifi setting, with complex characters and interesting interpersonal dynamics
Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life …
I'm sure I read The Fall of the House of Usher at some point, but I didn't retain enough that I had any particular expectations for the direction of the plot, etc.
However, I did read Mexican Gothic relatively recently, so I spent a good deal of What Moves the Dead, once the overall shape of the story became apparent, nodding along and waiting for the characters to catch up - it gave me a chuckle to see the reference to Mexican Gothic in the author's note.
Great writing, an intriguing reimagination of the classic.
A Frenchwoman once told me that I had no poetry in my soul. I recited a dirty limerick to her, and she threw a lemon at my head. Paris is a marvelous city.
