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Some potential late October spooky reads.

""Sleeping pills couldn‘t help him; they couldn‘t lower the bottom of his lake. There was nothing that could lower it . . . I remember him talking about space, about room . . . He wanted room! He said that within him there was no room left, no more space to move, to turn around. He said something horrible as well: ‘Even if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn‘t find the space to die!‘""

This is a creepy, weird, prescient, and deeply interesting Italian novel. It's a work that merits further analysis and a re-read or two. We discuss doing just that on our latest episode.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6A6hXZ7eaOG7BtHOSJpCTI?si=a65UE8oGRni7kTg7LJktoQ

#screamathon TBR! I won't read all of these but I always overestimate and read whatever comes in at the library first (and when the rest arrive halfway through Dec it's like finding extra fries at the bottom of the bag)

The tagged book is a cheat because it just came in so it'll be finished before October...it's like a warmup!

Noticing a distinct lack of diversity here 🤔...#integrateyourshelf recs, anyone?

#screamathon2020 @4thhouseontheleft

I think I did alright #in2018, especially since I usually get books from the library instead of buying them. Though I was very surprised to realize I didn't give up on a book this year and that I didn't reread anything. That's a very unusual reading year for me 🤣

Originally published in the 1970‘s in Italian, this book was translated into English nearly 40 years later. The city of Turin, where the story takes place, has a dark history in which citizens were tormented by twenty sleepless nights filled with gruesome and inexplicable murders. Ten years later, one man sets out to investigate the terror that gripped this city and soon becomes entangled in the horrors that slowly unravel the secrets of the past.

#athinsliceofanxiety #thetwentydaysofturin #giorgiodemaria #library #novel

Lunch with an Italian cult classic. Anyone read this one?
#readharder2018.
#genrefictionintranslation

Full review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1906505051

This was good but lacked a certain something. It had all the makings of a fine meal but could have used a touch more seasoning. It was creepy without ever really getting to the point of tense unease.

#currentlyreading This went straight to my reading list as soon as I saw the cover last year on a round up of new horror (this is only new in English, I believe it was originally published in the Italian in the 70s?) And by happy accident, it will be my D entry for #LitsyAtoZ. I only count things read in alphabetical order for a little extra challenge instead of filling in here and there.

This book is weird! Despite being written in the 70s the author just nails how numbing the bombardment of present day social media can be. You follow an unnamed narrator digging into an event 10yr prior that no one openly acknowledges. It has that slow building tension which is really hard to pull off in a slim novel. I find myself thinking about this book even after finishing it several days ago. Recommend for anyone looking for weird read 4⭐️

Next up - newly translated but originally published in 1970s Italy this book tell the story of 20 days of a city being plagued by insomnia and murder. “The Library” is a space created where citizens can share their diaries or writings with other strangers but the author‘s identities can be released for a small fee. The description is eerily like some modern social media

A story of mounting evil that is astoundingly prescient about the dark rabbit hole of the social media landscape today.