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Jasper’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jasper’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Rejection Letters - How to Write and Respond to Them
Greetings gentle reader, and welcome to my first Goodreads blog. It's reprinted from my regular column over on the excellent This Is Horror site. As some of you may have missed it first time around I think it's worth a rerun. As I'm a horror author it begins with a horror story. A real life horror story.
A good friend of mine, with an especially bad history of boyfriends, once told me a tale about Read more of this blog post »
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Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1):
"An engaging start for Steve Carella and the rest of the 87th Precinct gang. The author, writing as Ed McBain, is on to something big. Something that has had a major influence on storytelling in movies, TV, and the growth of the reality cop genre. You"
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"Gritty, lean, and at times surprisingly romantic, the first entry in the 87th Precinct series remains one of the best. Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle and screenwriter for Hitchcock’s, The Birds, is better known today as Ed McBain becaus"
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"Strong opening to the legendary series. I enjoyed McBain (Hunter)'s lean prose style and flair in descriptions. The characters were, however, not as fleshed out as I had hoped, but given the length of the series it was of no major concern. Despite be"
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" My first "Perfect 10" that I've read in....a long time.
This book is sheer perfection for Horror fans. Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, beautifully aided and abetted by artist Ben Stenbeck, have crafted a story which is like the best film that H" Read more of this review » |
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Gird your loins, cos this one's brutal!! What if you were both chosen and cursed? What if you were charged with creating a new world born from the chaos of the old? This novel is a psychologically relentless descent into the mind of the very man who b ...more |
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“The most succssful monsters overdetermine these tansgressions to become, in Judith Halberstam's evocative phrase, 'technologies of monstrosity' that condense and process different and even contradictory anxieties about category and border. Some critics hold that the genre speaks to universal, primitive taboos about the very foundational elements of what it means to be human, yet the ebb and flow of the Gothic across the modern period invites more historical readings. Indeed, one of the princial border breaches in the Gothic is history itself- the insidious leakage of the pre-modern past into the skeptical, allegedly enlightened present. The Gothic, Robert Mighall suggests, can be thought of as a way of relating to the past and its legacies.”
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Jasper Bark
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Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Sci-Fi
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“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing
1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely. 5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. 6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose." 7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. 8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. 9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things. 10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.” ...more Elmore Leonard |
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They watched without talking, each in his own way exploring the edges of the hole that had appeared in their lives, so as not to fall in.
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Crime Detective M...: Reading Challenge 2015 A-Z by author | 31 | 118 | Sep 20, 2015 05:38PM | |
| A Good Thriller: Individual 25,000 Pages in 2015 | 149 | 214 | Jan 04, 2016 06:01PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : A-Z challenge Q/X/Z | 14 | 32 | Jan 23, 2020 02:42PM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: What did you read in ~~ July 2021 | 42 | 26 | Aug 08, 2021 08:51PM | |
A Good Thriller:
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15440 | 3480 | May 02, 2023 11:22AM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Horror Tag! | 1782 | 1165 | Nov 23, 2025 02:54AM |
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― Gaudy Night
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― Armageddon in Retrospect
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― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
― The Complete Fairy Tales
― The Complete Fairy Tales
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
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Kayleigh wrote: "Hi Jasper, I'm sorry I haven't replied to your message, you must think me so rude! Every time I try to open it, it for some reason keeps circling me around to the log in page. Thank you for accepti..."Hey Kayleigh, don't think you the lest bit rude. Goodreads can sometimes be alarmingly elliptical to use, though it's not as user unfriendly as LinkedIn. Great to be in touch here and I look forward to our book discussions too.
Hi Jasper, I'm sorry I haven't replied to your message, you must think me so rude! Every time I try to open it, it for some reason keeps circling me around to the log in page. Thank you for accepting me on here and I look forward to discussing some books!
Williwaw wrote: "Hey Jasper:That book list of yours has to be some kind of record-breaking statistic, worthy of an entry in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
Cheers!"
It would seem to suggest I'm completely illiterate wouldn't it.
Hey Jasper:That book list of yours has to be some kind of record-breaking statistic, worthy of an entry in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
Cheers!
Hey Pat, only just seen your message, so forgive me writing back four years later, but 2016 was a good reading year for me, and I wrote a few books too. Hope you are well and still voraciously consuming horror books.