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A horror-western? Count me in!

I had nearly forgotten Hirshberg's genius at crafting mood from so little. Wow.

How does King/Bachman get the song title wrong?!?!? It's '(Big Joe and) Phantom 309', not '...409'. Red Sovine. Sheesh!

About 3 pages in, and it is quite obvious Ghríofa is a poetess. Her language craft is amazing.

beautiful writing, and a subtly complex narrative that I am quite in love with already. The only way this could be better is if I had a hard copy to read, but my local library only had the digital version. Ah, life!

😭 Seems the first 184 pages were an autobiographical tale of Dahl’s childhood. Rather cheeky of him, but makes finishing faster since I’m not reading it. I don’t do autobiographical sketches.

Fascinating and dense.

Remembering how much of a struggle it is for me to read poetry 😭

Brilliant, as expected :)

Fucking he’ll Steve Bachmann. I’ve counted five!! spelling errors already. Every one for the word RECHERCHE (editor capitalizes the word, I’m not yelling, though I am annoyed), that word being Bachmann’s shorthand for Proust’s seven volume epic. Seriously?!? Editor that cannot spell? Ugh.

how do I add a second read date for a different version of a Shakespeare play? Can I?

Whew! This is exhausting! And amazing!

Spectacular! On to Part II!

Sprawling epic that keeps you invested page after page after page. Color me surprised, and gleeful.

Sorta dreaded starting this one! So.Many.Pages. But I’m a sucker for a Western well told, and this one has the proper feel to it already. 1456743 pages to go 😂

when did "where i am" become "where I'm at"? Or "where are you?" become "where are you at?"??

Mostly quite grand, with a few that just didn't work for me at all.

I can never decide: read a book of short stories front to back, like a novel? Or read a story or two at a time and take a break, do something else, and then commence reading again? I usually read through, because if the stories are great I want more, and if a story isn't so good I want to get to the next one and forget about the last one. Weak rule, but it doesn't allow for not reading through, does it? New rule?

Improper use of the conjunction 'lest'!
:)

Tarantulas are venomous, not poisonous :/

A rather droll beginning to this book, author's stylistics notwithstanding.

Few writers of this level of talent, and sad he is no longer alive to pen such powerful prose.

Just as amazing as I hoped! Woop!

A bit drab as yet... Potential is there...

Quite the narrative already. Dark academia without the dark, or academia.
Ha!

Dark and more than a little unnerving.

Ah, Mr. Gregory and his birds...

Loves the insects! MC is a bit off the map! Kinda meandering now...

Love the intellectual-ness of the relationship, and I am intrigued by the idea of massive amounts of blood, gore, and death to come... Hopefully :)