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| Horror novels—maybe most novels—struggle against the improbable. Sometimes the reader’s mind rejects the scenario. That didn’t happen frequently here, but The House that Horror Built features a victimized protagonist who lets pride get in the way. It ...more | |
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| Book ten of the Series of Unfortunate Events again struggles with the issue of good and evil. Olaf has kidnapped Sunny and taken her to the highest peak of the Mortmain Mountains while Violet and Klaus are sent clattering down to their presumed death ...more | |
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| Those who’ve read D. W. Pasulka’s last two books might be disappointed that there aren’t as many UFOs in this one. Instead, this usual book takes readers into some uncanny territory that includes AI and Marian apparitions. Science fiction novels and ...more | |
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| For the first couple hundred pages I was finding Path of Thorns rough going. This is because the narrator is unreliable and she keeps a few too many secrets. Set in an alternate world of indeterminate time (no cars, telephones, etc.) it has a fairy t ...more | |
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| This short book is an English translation and introduction to two Icelandic grimoires: the Galdrabók and Jarðskinna . As with most grimoires, these are esoteric texts. Their context is fascinating, however. They provide insight into Icelandic folkl ...more | |
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| The plot thickens for the Baudelaire orphans as they join Madame Lulu’s Caligari Carnival. Lulu’s in cahoots with Count Olaf, and the villain brings lions to the carnival to feed the crowd’s desire for violence. Lulu also knows about V.F.D. and tells ...more | |
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"Books on writing fall broadly into two categories. Those that deal with granular issues at the sentence level—syntax and grammar—and those that deal more broadly with the art of writing, and the craft of composing. These latter books tend also to con"
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| The list reads like a Who’s Who of early Victorian English poets: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, as well as some lesser lights. These lives were, as the subtitle suggests, tangled. Daisy Hay uses Leigh Hunt as a focal point. An early b ...more | |
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| The Haunting of Ashburn House is an unconventional ghost story. A great-niece inherits a house and since she has very little money and few other prospects, takes it. Her new friends in the new location tell her that the house has a reputation, but th ...more | |
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
― On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”
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While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”
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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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