Daniel finished reading Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Pretty tasty as a collection, up there or better than The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All, which has some bum notes.
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Daniel finished reading The seven dials mystery by Agatha Christie (St. Martin's minotaur mysteries)
Brings back several characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, in a …
Content warning Mystery resolution
I'm interested in the note this story ends on, with a Scotland-yard sanctioned secret society/spy network. Bit of an interesting mix with the whole upper crust monstrosity of the characters.
Daniel started reading The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley …
The Intoxicated is both a timely rendition of our current crisis and an astute study of the dismissive response to truth-telling.
Daniel finished reading The wine-dark sea by Robert Aickman
Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
Daniel finished reading Expectation Effect by David Robson
Daniel started reading The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material …
Daniel started reading Gender Trouble (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Judith Butler
Gender Trouble (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Judith Butler
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as …
Daniel started reading The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, …
Daniel finished reading The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Hydrogen Sonata is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, set …
Kind of wraps up a little abruptly but the journey is plenty interesting
Daniel finished reading Heavy weather by Bruce Sterling
Prescient, and likely to be prescient, sadly.
Daniel started reading Major trends in Jewish mysticism by Gershon Scholem (The Stroock lectures -- 1938)
Gershon Scholem: Major trends in Jewish mysticism (1941, Schocken)
Major trends in Jewish mysticism by Gershon Scholem (The Stroock lectures -- 1938)
Daniel started reading Heavy weather by Bruce Sterling
Daniel stopped reading Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, and heretical physicist, who took …
I've enjoyed this but I've lost my appetite for it. I'll come back later.
I've enjoyed this but I've lost my appetite for it. I'll come back later.
Daniel finished reading Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #6)
Bit of an odd story, this. We, the readers, are expected to infer a number of facts which the narrators never themselves understand, and tie together a story from two broken halves. Maybe not entirely successful but a really interesting effort.
Daniel finished reading The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New …
Achingly sad