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My heart is chainsaw7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange.Īlma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. The good kind, of course” ( BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. ![]() In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel ![]()
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Knut hamsun best books7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() We read Hunger if we read anything, and we read it with circumspection. Since then, Hamsun’s massive literary output has existed in quarantine. His support was so vocal that he was convicted of treason after the war. His books sold in great numbers in the 1920s and 1930s, he was awarded a Nobel Prize, he was fiercely admired by other writers, and he was also an unflinching supporter of the Third Reich. But what happens if a writer is something worse than a bum? How does a work of literary art stand in relation to its author if its author is truly abhorrent?įew writers represent as vivid an illustration of this problem as Knut Hamsun, a tailor’s son from Norway who was once considered one of the greatest novelists in the world. We can forgive a great deal if the work is good enough. He may have been a bum, but he wrote like an angel. ![]() The story of the abusive, alcoholic writer is a familiar one, and we generally make allowances for such a figure. ![]()
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Author banana yoshimoto7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() There have been two film adaptations: a Japanese TV movie and a more widely released version titled Wo ai chu fang, produced in Hong Kong by Ho Yim in 1997. ![]() Her debut work, Kitchen (1988), had over 60 printings in Japan alone. Yoshimoto began her writing career while working as a waitress at a golf club restaurant, in 1987. Each day she takes half an hour to write at her computer, and she says, "I tend to feel guilty because I write these stories almost for fun." Between 20, she maintained an online journal for English-speaking fans. Yoshimoto keeps her personal life guarded and reveals little about her certified rolfing practitioner husband, Hiroyoshi Tahata, or son (born in 2003). While there, she adopted the pseudonym "Banana", after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous." Yoshimoto graduated from Nihon University's College of Art with a major in literature. ![]() Her father was the poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, and her sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964, and grew up in a liberal family. From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana ( よしもと ばなな). Banana Yoshimoto ( 吉本 ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana, born 24 July 1964 ) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto ( 吉本 真秀子, Yoshimoto Mahoko). ![]()
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Glass by ellen hopkins7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Its not that she doesnt love her own child, but how can she care for Hunter properly when she cannot even think straight? Kristinas own mother kicks her out of the house, and that is only the beginning of her problems. Her baby, who was once the most important person in her life, now falls to the wayside. Not only does she crave meth, and want her next high, but her body physically needs the drug. Only, was it really so unexpected? Or did she always know that she would fall back into this trap? More quickly than even she realizes, Kristinas life centers around her next score and the temporary relief it gives her from all of her problems. ![]() While she managed to stay clean for a couple of months, she unexpectedly finds herself once more in the grips of the monster, otherwise known as methamphetamine. Kristina now has a baby of her own to care for, but she can hardly even care for herself. At six hundred pages in length, it might seem like a tedious read, but in reality, The entire book is written in free-verse, in an almost poetic format, allowing readers to better follow Kristinas thoughts. Glass is the sequel to Crank, and offers the continuing story of Kristina Snows life as an 18-year old teen mother succumbing to her drug addiction. ![]() Glass by Ellen Hopkins, is an absolutely horrifying portrayal of the life of a methamphetamine addict. ![]()
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Pronoun Envy by Anna Livia7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Some withhold any indication of gender others have non-gendered characters. They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the 19th century to the present. ![]() Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. Livia uses the term "pronoun envy" ironically to show that rather being a case of misguided envy, battles over gendered language are central to feminist concerns. In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. ![]() Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. ![]()
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American doll party supplies7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Dolls can decorate their house for a party and invite all their friends! This set features:Īmerican Girl® x KidKraft® Luxury Dollhouse for 18-inch Dolls: This dollhouse for 18” American Girl® dolls features a tri-level layout made of premium wood materials, designed in collaboration with KidKraft. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It also features a character who is a “little trickster” (8), who plays a “fine game” (4) for the “sheer mischief” of it. Perhaps not coincidentally, Barker’s tale is set in October. This “forbidden highway” has heavily-trafficked “intersections” that also merge closely with “our world”: “Here the barriers that separate one reality from the next are worn thin with the passage of innumerable feet.” The idea of the barrier, or veil, between the world of the dead and the world living growing thin is a familiar one in Halloween mythology. Their freight, the wandering dead, can be glimpsed when the heart is close to bursting, and sights that should be hidden come plainly into view.” Besides setting up the rules for this horror story, these lines also highlight a pair of themes that are central to Barker’s work: love, and the revelation of the forbidden. “The dead have highways” (1), the omniscient narrator bluntly asserts in the single-sentence opening paragraph of “The Book of Blood.” These “unerring lines of ghost trains, of dream-carriages,” though, are no mere metaphor, as the narrative quickly establishes via elaboration: “Their thrum and throb can be heard in the broken places of the world, through cracks made by acts of cruelty, violence, and depravity. In honor of the occasion, and this Wednesday’s premiere of the Books of Blood anthology film on Hulu, here’s an essay analyzing the seminal Barker short story… Happy 68th birthday to dark imaginer extraordinaire Clive Barker. ![]()
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Royal elite book 17/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Naomi and Sebastian have such a complex, dark, and often times twisted connection, but it’s so right for them. HOLY MOTHER EFFING WOW! Rina Kent saw me say that my mind was blown after reading her Deception Trilogy and went, “BET?!” OHMAHGAAAAWWD, y’all!! Red Thorns is a whole other level of dark! This story awakened some things in me that I didn’t even know where there! Like, damn. Teddy Hamilton, I’m a Mega Fan of his, his voice is absolutely gorgeous and love listening to the way he narrates. ![]() Rose Dioro did a wonderful job voicing Naomi as well as other characters in her POV. All the Narrators did such a wonderful job, this is a great team! Jacob’s voice is very appealing and I crave to hear more of him. Formats Read: Ebook & Audiobook Audiobook Review: Overall: 5/5 Narrators: Teddy Hamilton, Rose Dioro, Jacob Morgan Performance: 5/5 Story: 4.5-5/5, Listing as 5. HEA(?): Not Yet :) Cliffhanger(?): YES!! Holy Crap it’s a great cliffhanger! This book was/is Absolutely Delicious & Captivating! I Can’t Wait to see what’ll happen in the next book! □ Relationship Type: MF Dark(?): Not Dark to me :) 1(?)/5 Romance: 4-4.5/5 Heat: This book does feature dub-con and I Love it! It’s so good! 5/5 Drama: 4-4.5/5 Suspense: 3.5-4/5 Pacing: This pacing of this book is wonderful, it’s Mid paced and flows very well. ![]() Red Thorns by Rina Kent I Give this Book a 4.5-5/5 Star Rating, Listing as 5! *Audiobook Review at Bottom □ ZERO Spoilers. ![]() Fantastic! Eager for the Next Book after that Cliffhanger! □ ![]()
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Tchaikovsky elder race7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Everything about this book suggests deliberate care in uniting epic fantasy's immersive world-building with the sharp, dislocating bursts of high-concept science fiction. ![]() Le Guin Fiction Prize!Īn Indie Next Reading Group Selection! "There's an Ursula Le Guin-like grace to storytelling, to the shifting of cadences. But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon. Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it). But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. About the Book " junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe"-Provided by publisher. ![]()
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Day of the triffids 19517/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Well before The Truman Show we have the story of a fifties town that has been built and maintained to provide an environment for one man. It was influential in the development of the zombie genre of fiction, and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. ![]() I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson, is a 1954 horror fiction novel. The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham, is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel about a plague of blindness that befalls the entire world, allowing the rise of an aggressive species of plant. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. ![]() This specific softcover book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. ![]() |