Each essay focuses on one movie (or in two cases, two movies). Sometimes the author’s life experiences illuminate the movie, sometimes it’s the other way around. I like best the essays that do both, but they are all moving, thought-provoking, occasionally funny, and well written.
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Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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caracabe rated Haunted Legends: 4 stars
caracabe finished reading Haunted Legends by Ellen Datlow
caracabe reviewed It Came from the Closet by Carmen Maria Machado
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
5 stars
caracabe finished reading It Came from the Closet by Carmen Maria Machado
caracabe started reading Under Her Skin by Linda D. Addison
caracabe finished reading Withering by John Shirley
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caracabe reviewed Negative Space by B.R. Yeager
"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black …
Negative Space review
4 stars
Negative Space pulls the reader sentence by sentence into a weirder, darker world, the ground shifting underfoot at every step. I’m not sure where I ended up when I closed this book.
caracabe finished reading Negative Space by B.R. Yeager
Negative Space (2020, Apocalypse Party)
Negative Space by B.R. Yeager
"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of …
caracabe reviewed A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
A House with Good Bones
4 stars
Both witty and creepy, with a good prose style. Always enjoy Kingfisher.
caracabe finished reading A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
Both witty and creepy, with a good prose style. Always enjoy T. Kingfisher.
caracabe rated Selected Poems: 4 stars
Selected Poems (Paperback, 1991, Penguin Books)
Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam, James Greene
Selected poems of Osip Mandelshtam, translated by James Greene
caracabe finished reading Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam
Selected Poems (Paperback, 1991, Penguin Books)
Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam, James Greene
Selected poems of Osip Mandelshtam, translated by James Greene