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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 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

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#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.
🧡🍂🎃🍂🧡

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.

Almost halfway and it‘s been so good! 🤓

It‘s a great day for some Brontë research! I feel like I‘ve emerged from my chrysalis like a cicada— this past Spring Semester was the hardest so far.

I learned Yiddish, made two websites, did three digital humanities projects, read over a thousand pages, including three textbooks, and wrote over 50 pages.

It sounds weird but, after all that, focusing on just one paper feels almost luxurious.

I enjoy reading older mysteries, but the open racism and xenophobia can sometimes be a distraction. It was interesting, then, in this one, when the main character's preconceptions caused her to miss what was really happening. I enjoyed the easy dialogue and it felt (again, except for the open racism) much more recent than the 1940s. I would like to read more in this series--if I can find them. The others might be out of print.

#SpringSkies

I‘m planning on reading this book for an #AnimalPOV prompt on my #OUABC 40 book challenge. It‘s 9 stories, all told from animal points of view. I 💚the colorful cover.

“In nine stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.”

#LuckyInLove Day 4: A #Bouquet of flowers spread out here, like so much wound and burning pain because “we are all equally far from love.” Cannot wait to read this.