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Axl’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Axl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Stillborn Gallery
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Strangled Epitaphs
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Odin Rising
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Ich Will
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Into the Crypt of Rays
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Routine Crucifixion
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Brendan McCarthy
Shoved out of bed into the blinding light, I rushed to piece myself together.
The sweaty bed sheets were all crumpled from my twisting and turning.
I made one into a noose
and hung it from the broken spring of my neck.
I screwed the metal black box of my head on top,
Inflated my lungs,
spit water into them until they gurgled just right,
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"This is an excellent collection of Poe's works.
All the tales and poems are great, but I particularly enjoyed The Fall of the House of Usher, one of Poe's most critically acclaimed works. This classic short story, written by one of the masters of terr" Read more of this review » |
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"First thing I've read by this author but will probably try more. The title, "Jesus' Son" is a line from the song Heroin by Lou Reed. It's a collection of literary short stories, many only a few pages long. Not quite flash fiction but close. The stori"
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| I loved William Blackwell’s The End Is Nigh. It’s the first post-apocalyptic novel I read set in Canada, Prince Edward Island, to be exact. It reads like Stephen King’s The Stand, on a much smaller scale. Pastor Jonathan Brackley receives signs that ...more | |
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“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.”
― Man With Bags
― Man With Bags
“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.”
― Cornel West Reader
― Cornel West Reader
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
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Thank you for being my friend on goodreads! RUNNER, Marie Ann Phillip
my pleasure