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Evan Purcell
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November 2014
August Horror!
It's been a long time coming, but it's finally August. My birthday month! Best time of the year!
And in the midst of the summer heat, what better time to cool off with a nice horror story? If you remember, back in January, I was selected to be part of Twelve Months of Horror , a twelve-story collection of some of the wildest, goriest, funniest, steamiest stories around. The idea is to have a Read more of this blog post »
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| For a Big Little Book about Aquaman, Scourge of the Sea is surprisingly cohesive. Its plot swims easily from Point A to Point B without feeling episodic. Most scenes are pretty dumb, but they make story sense in a way that other Big Little Books don’ ...more | |
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A very quick, very atypical Victorian novel. It’s a sweltering hot Christmas in Australia and Harry Heathcote is worried that his neighbors are planning to ignite a bushfire and destroy his property. Most of the drama comes from Harry’s British expec ...more |
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A cartoon episode in book form. The Big Little Book format (with illustrations on every other page) is a perfect fit for a Hannah Barbera cartoon. Every new page brings a fresh joke or sight gag. The story is appropriately absurd, involving evil robot ...more |
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The Matchlock Gun is probably the most outdated Newberry winner, at least when it comes to plot: A young boy must learn to be brave and shoot a gun to protect his family from Indians. There's a lot to recommend this book, from the simple but descripti ...more |
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| The first Newberry winner was a literal textbook covering all (and I mean ALL) of history from the Big Bang to the early 1920s (when it was published). Wars, revolutions, empires. It’s all very Euro-centric, which is probably for the best considering ...more | |
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| One of my favorite classic sci-fi stories. A group of prisoners are sent to an asteroid where they slowly devolve. There’s a good bit of body horror baked into the premise, along with its more standard sci-fi trappings. The narrator is an interesting ...more | |
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| One of my favorite classic sci-fi stories. A group of prisoners are sent to an asteroid where they slowly devolve. There’s a good bit of body horror baked into the premise, along with its more standard sci-fi trappings. The narrator is an interesting ...more | |
