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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
Website
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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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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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5 editions
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Tales of Nightmares: Wily Writers Presents #2
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2022
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This Morbid Life
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2021
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As Above, So Below
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2014
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Morbid Curiosity #11
In the late 90s/early 00s, I published a magazine called Morbid Curiosity. It showcased true confessional stories from writers around the world, telling their deepest, darkest secrets. It was so much fun to assemble! I never knew what I would get in the mail.
Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the final issue. That seems like a good thing to celebrate — and how better to celebrate than to cr
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Père-Lachaise, the second international cemetery I ever visited, made me fall in love with the cemetery's history, celebrities, and amazing sculpture. All of those things are touched on in this charming little book. Since I visited last, the cemetery ...more |
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We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter
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| Rachael Hanel's father was a small-town gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. As a child, she helped him by removing silk flowers so he could mow around gravestones. Her mother told her stories about the people buried nearby. Rachael liked the morbid s ...more | |
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| I grew up near a Potter's Field. It was a blank green expanse of lawn where the city of Flint buried people who didn't have the money to purchase a grave plot or pay for their own cremation. For many years, the space wasn't marked at all. Eventually ...more | |
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One of my favorite books in the world: I can't imagine how many times I've read this. The older I get, the more I take away from this book. Bradbury published it in 1962, when he was younger than I am now. I wonder if I will ever be so wise. The Disne ...more |
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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 | |
“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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“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 is Congressional Cemetery's book club. We meet every other month in our historic 1903 Chapel and enjoy good discussions and hearty win ...more
