Delightful! I laughed loudly & nearly cried in the airport.

Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I'm in charge of my destiny.

Epic & astonishing, superbly enlightening, I'll read this again.

Seriously, just read Wong.

This juicy mindblower is making good use of my dictionary app; splenetic, riposte, abstruse.

When Mr. Sanderson surprises you with happy tears, one must put the book on the kitchen floor, grab grandmother's iron wall art, & include their own toes, right?

This photo is from the literary magazine F(r)iction. I'm not sure if this specific poem is included in Disasterology. I got goosebumps the first & third times I read this poem, so far...

Power is an illusion of perception.

Very impressive...

The double of my double is not my double.

To quote the poets... We're fucked.

Joshua is so rad.

Heartbreaking & hilarious.

Dismal & disturbing... Yet I had to finish & did appreciate the end.

Read me pile; tactile & tempting...

Apocalypse disease horror; 4 out of 5 stars. Well done; vivid, heartfelt, & suspenseful.

Mr. Loveheart is a delightful upstart Lord of the Underworld.

Vivid, brutal, magic. Read it so fast, cinematic. An excellent mad ride...

"They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.' "
"Um, and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?"
"Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.
And with that they reached the dwarfs' house.

I'm adoring this adult fairytale. Visceral & beautiful, the mysteries enchant. The time traveling narrative is excellent. A shape shifting guardian & a demon death clock girl; funny, shocking, delightful...

What's true about our fellow humans is that we are clever and stupid. We are gray areas.

I'm here, but I'm not here. I'm in two places at once. It goes against Einstein's theorem, but what the hell. Call it the Zen of the killer.

You are not who you are...

Loved this so much, I was compelled to read the title story twice in one day. Ford says, "A book is a time machine of our intentions, our ideas, our emotions; the alchemy of ingredients psychological, physical, and experimental which have coalesced in the form of the words we choose."

"With cephalopod brilliance, nonvertebrate intuition, Madame Mutandis will answer one question for each of you. No question is out of bounds. She thinks like the very sea itself. Who'll be first?"

Young adult ghost story with history. Consistent voice, compelling. Ghost cat, mythical creatures, mysterious powers on an old farmstead with a dilapidated manor.

52 pages in... Drawn out & dry with foreshadowing like a drum with the word drum on it being beaten by the reader's face every page...

Unreliable narrators? Hmmm...

How much of that was a dream?

Everyone is an idiot.

Enrapturing magical realism, visceral, crucial...

Are you the only living creature that matters?

Stress relieving myself by coloring others in stressful situations. The damsel isn't always in distress; sometimes she is the villain or holding her own... Or undead. Loving the interesting covers!

The nature in which rats exist calls to mind those lives that are not recalled and honored, whose careers are not reexamined in histories -- the lives that seem to be unnatural and even ratty or at least low-down but are not, actually... When we look at rats, we are thus compelled to look at the history of the lives in their midst, to search for the Unrepresented Men.

I was just blown away by the story, "This is Love;" wow! Goosebumps & actual tears from a horror story. "Welcome to the Reptile House" was an excellent tale of a certain type of monster(no spoilers). So far the best part of this collection is the surprising freshness. Loving it!

I made it 70 pages. Perhaps, I could read this at some other point in my life... Or not. Slow moving plot combined with complaining narrator incessantly asking why her friendship disappeared. Sorry, we can't be friends either...

Venice.

Strong with the dark side of the force that place is. In you must go, mofo.

There are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder.

The savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape... And then the murders start.

Picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different ages; Mr. Carroll pulls at my heartstrings with his magnificent surrealities.

These are my girls today; fruity & fun!

Just awful. I like deadpan, but this was tedious & boring beyond belief; way too many details about building fences. I threw it violently on the floor after reading 90 pages, & I have been kicking it & verbally abusing it all day.