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Loren’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Loren’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Loren Rhoads
Goodreads Author
Born
in Flint, Michigan, The United States
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Influences
Ray Bradbury, Brian Hodge, Angela Carter
Member Since
August 2007
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199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
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2009
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4 editions
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The Dangerous Type (In the Wake of the Templars, #1)
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2015
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7 editions
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Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel
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2013
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4 editions
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222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
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Kill by Numbers (In the Wake of the Templars, #2)
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2015
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7 editions
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No More Heroes (In the Wake of the Templars, #3)
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2015
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This Morbid Life
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2021
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Tales of Nightmares: Wily Writers Presents #2
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2022
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As Above, So Below
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2014
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Spooky Book Fair Tomorrow (10/11)
Hosted by Horror Addicts hostess Emerian Rich, local authors read from (and sell!) their horror works. Among those coming are Jonathan Fortin (author of Bloody Caleb), R. L. Merrill (author of For the Witches), J. Malcolm Stewart (author of the Look Back in Horror series), Jay Hartlove (author of The Insane God), Sheryl Hayes (author of Chaos Kin), Valerie Frankel (author of books exploring every
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| Tui Snider has been traveling lately, around and around the globe. Every chance she gets, she skips the souvenir stands and heads for the cemeteries. Because she's a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies, she can often link up with local t ...more | |
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| I enjoyed the plot, but the story required a lot of knowledge of the earlier books to appreciate everything that happened. It's just been too long since I read all of those (and I think I missed one along the way). I could follow the events in the cu ...more | |
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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
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| I hesitated to read this because I saw the author give a zoom lecture about the book and I felt his irreverent take on the subject wasn't respectful. Now that I've read the book, it's one of the first cemetery books I've read -- of hundreds -- that o ...more | |
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| Although Ross's book appears to be a guide to visiting graveyards, its focus often turns toward the people who work in graveyards: gravediggers, tour guides, historians, and even memorial artists. One of my favorite essays in the book introduces an I ...more | |
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Caitlin Doughty -- founder of the Order of the Good Death and the Death Salon -- surpasses her memoir Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with a travel memoir that documents her worldwide search for a different way of disposing of our dead. I liked Caitlin's firs ...more |
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| The author befriends a series of octopuses (not octopi!) in a public aquarium. That much is fascinating. The heartbreaking part is that one of the octopuses is kept in a dark, featureless barrel. She is always eager to interact with the humans that v ...more | |
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| If you like stories about elves and goblins, you may be disappointed by this. The characters are elves and goblins, sure, but there's nothing magical about them. Instead, this is a book of one conversation after another where very little happens: 22 ...more | |
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| The author befriends a series of octopuses (not octopi!) in a public aquarium. That much is fascinating. The heartbreaking part is that one of the octopuses is kept in a dark, featureless barrel. She is always eager to interact with the humans that v ...more | |
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| Combining found family with a traveling circus, Angela Carter and Ray Bradbury and the man who tricked the devil, I loved this so much. What would it be like to survive a fairytale, only to have the tale twisted and retold until you no longer recogni ...more | |
“Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.”
― Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
― Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Goodreads Sci-Fi/...: Blog: Supernatural Friday: Of Course I Live in a Haunted House: Guest Blogger Loren Rhoads | 1 | 3 | Jul 17, 2015 10:03AM |
“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth....Such are the autumn people.”
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“The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”
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“Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.”
― Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
― Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?”
― Ink Exchange
― Ink Exchange
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Tombs and Tomes
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Tombs and Tomes is Congressional Cemetery's book club. We meet every other month in our historic 1903 Chapel and enjoy good discussions and hearty win ...more
