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📖🎧 I‘d love to finish these by EOD Sunday🤞🏻🤓

Married couple Millie and Stan head to Africa on safari m. Stan doesn‘t want Millie to come along. He doesn‘t really want Millie at all any more but once they embark the oddest thing happens, Millie no longer cares what Stan wants. She comes into her own with new friends, new talent, and new love. That is just the start of their journey.After reading Mrs Caliban I knew I needed to read more by Ingalls. This was just as strange and marvelous.

I‘m glad I read this, for the strangeness of it, the reminder that words are ours for the wielding to shape stories as we wish. Was aware of a theme of distance/observation (fitting for a detective main character I guess) and of recurring motifs, but not perceptive enough to piece together their importance. In that sense, as a reader I was distanced. Separated from the story by its opacity. I looked at words on a page, then closed the cover.

I couldn‘t get into this one so giving myself permission to DNF

3⭐️ This is a perfect book for Halloween. 11 stories about ghosts 👻 I would‘ve given a higher rating if the endings are more conclusive. I was left feeling unsatisfied for most. My favorites are “Afterward” and “A Bottle of Perrier.” There‘s no ghost for the latter but a gruesome finding at the end, and I found it the most entertaining.

To start tomorrow night

Finishing this book makes me want to cry. It‘s like losing a friend.

I 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