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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Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath …
Some parts of this book I found profoundly helpful, and some parts seemed very silly; but the parts I found silly might be just what’s needed for some other reader.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five …
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with …
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it.
— Lone Women by Victor LaValle
The opening sentence of the novel. I’m hooked.
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, …
Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of …
As a visual artist, Carrington was unjustly overshadowed by her lover Max Ernst. Her literary works have similarly been underrated. She was one of the greats of surrealism, and these stories are disturbing, funny, confusing, horrifying, poignant, and deeply philosophical, often all at once.
Leonora Carrington: The complete stories of Leonora Carrington (2017, Dorothy Project)
Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish …
Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of …
This was her reply: To be one human creature is to be a legion of mannequins. These mannequins can become animated according to the choice of the individual creature. He or she may have as many mannequins as they please. When the creature steps into the mannequin he immediately believes it to be real and alive and as long as he believes this he is trapped inside the dead image, which moves in ever-increasing circles away from Great Nature. Every individual gives names to his mannequins and nearly all these names begin with "I am" and are followed by a long stream of lies.
— The complete stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington: The complete stories of Leonora Carrington (2017, Dorothy Project)
Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish …
This first of the Discworld novels isn’t the best, but it’s terrific fun.
Contains: Death of Halpin Frayser -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch -- One summer night -- Moonlit road -- Diagnosis of …
Contains: Death of Halpin Frayser -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch -- One summer night -- Moonlit road -- Diagnosis of …
Personal and political horror, in which the characters are haunted by a house, England is haunted by fascism, and the world is haunted by England. A lumpy, brutal, brilliant work. The author has content warnings for racism, antisemitism, transphobia, rape, self-harm, and suicide
