pickI was mistaken in thinking Giovanna Rivero's stories were of the horror genre, though some of the themes, especially the first two stories, are horrific and terrifying, as the blurb mentions.
It's hard to sum them up, but if I say that they would be good material for David Lynch or Guillermo del Toro to adapt to film, that gives a sense of their disturbing, unsettling character.
The stories are set in Bolivia, Canada and USA, featuring ⬇️½
'Was it warm, this sticky fluid you found down there?'
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
CWs in comment.
#Halloween #Samhain
While I'm happy to read horror stories at any time of the year, it's undeniably atmospheric to do so as summer shifts to autumn, with the promise of winter ahead.
I'm starting off the season with the tagged book, and others I've lined up are:
•Tales of Horror & the Supernatural, Arthur Machen
•The Midnight People, Peter Haining, ed.
•Sea Tales of Terror, J. J. Starting, ed.
•I Can't Sleep at Night, Kurt Singer, ed.
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Durham has two Waterstones shops: I got the book of horror stories by Bolivian author Rivero from the "standard" shop, and the book of Perec essays from the "Plus" shop, which caters for students and has some secondhand, remaindered and academic stock you don't normally see in their mainstream stores.
I'm hoping the horror stories aren't TOO horrific, and that the essays in the Perec don't duplicate those in the Penguin edition I've already read.
Randomly searching for books about #allsaintsday and ran across this. And now I'm intrigued.
#HumbleHarvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
This doesn‘t have great Litsy reviews but the description sounds compelling
#NovemberNarrative #SaintsDay @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
so-soShort story collections are always a mixed bag, but this one had more misses than hits for me!
panI don‘t know what to say, difficult to make sense of the story to me, maybe translation in Italian did not help to make sense of the humor, but for sure the only reason I was able to finish it is because is short….#2022
pickI really enjoyed reading the legends of Latin America. As I‘m slowly learning Spanish, these legends were accessible but not corny, and the English translation was on the left page, Spanish on the right. Not too difficult of vocabulary, and a good variety of verb tenses. 16 short stories were a great length to develop the plot but not overwhelming. Recommend for those who are learning and don‘t want to read about people shopping or traveling.
I've given some CWs in a previous post tagged to the book, which are the tip of the iceberg. 6mo