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Mrs. Caliban
Mrs. Caliban: A Novel | Rachel Ingalls
This masterful, totally unforgettable novel brilliantly blends fantasy, social satire, and feminist politics (The New York Times). It all starts with the radio. Dorothys husband, Fred, has left for work, and she is at the kitchen sink washing the dishes, listening to classical music. Suddenly, the music fades out and a soft, close, dreamy voice says, Dont worry, Dorothy. A couple weeks later, there is a special interruption in regular programming. The announcer warns all listeners of an escaped sea monster. Giant, spotted, and froglike, the beastwho was captured six months earlier by a team of scientistsis said to possess incredible strength and to be considered extremely dangerous. That afternoon, the seven-foot-tall lizard man walks through Dorothys kitchen door. She is frightened at first, but there is something attractive about the monster. The two begin a tender, clandestine affair, and no one, not even Dorothys husband or her best friend, seems to notice. Selected by the British Book Marketing Council as one of the greatest American novels since World War II, Mrs. Caliban is a story of passion and loneliness, love and loss. Wryly subversive, it brilliantly combines surrealism, satire, and the female perspective.
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vivastory
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#Weirdwords selection for this week is courtesy of the excellent Mrs Caliban. A seldom seen word that definitely stands out
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CBee Way more complicated to say than goosebumps 😂 2mo
Hooked_on_books @CBee In Hawaii, people say “chicken skin.” Also way easier to say than this cool word. 2mo
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vivastory
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I have read my fair share of books so far this year & this novella of 111 pages is easily one of the best. When suburban housewife Dorothy starts receiving messages on her radio (“the kind that looked like a 1930s Gothic cathedral“) she is alerted at the start of the book to the escape of Aquarius, a “six-foot-seven-inch-frog like creature“ from the Institute. Bored & dissatisfied with her philandering spouse, Dorothy (CONT)

vivastory enters into a romantic relationship with Aquarius AKA Larry. With the release of Del Torro's The Shape of Water & Melissa Broder's Pisces, this might seem old hat, yet Ingalls novella published in 1983 was way ahead of its time. There is a certain degree of ambiguity in the reality of the relationship, however Ingalls focus on the two outcasts is really moving while not forgetting their irreducible differences, There's some great social (CONT) 2mo
vivastory commentary in here too, There is a section where Larry is excited over an ad for an unnamed Merce Cunningham ballet. I like to think it might be Second Hand:
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LeahBergen Great review! I have this waiting on my shelves. 👍 2mo
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LeticiaToraci Interesting book, on a side note, ballet is beautiful but nowadays I don't have the patience to watch it anymore. 2mo
rwmg wishlisted 2mo
Liz_M This book is a favorite of Marlon James, he mentioned it many times on his podcast. 2mo
Billypar Great review! I'm definitely going to bump this up on my list - I already had it added to my tbr from the James' podcast @Liz_M He's also convinced me to finally read Wide Sargasso Sea. Not sure I'll be able to go for Bleak House though. 2mo
Liz_M @Billypar Bleak House is one of the better Dickens. You do have to have a high tolerance for legal wrangling, but it's one of two that I actually like (most of his novels I find just okay). 2mo
vivastory @Liz_M I must ask: what is the other (I have read only 2 of his novels, but I loved Great Expectations) 2mo
vivastory @LeahBergen It's a quick & thought provoking read. Plus, Larry loves avocadoes! 2mo
vivastory @LeticiaToraci I hear ya, I like watching snippets & I have favorites but it's not something I seek out 2mo
vivastory @rwmg Hope that you like it 2mo
vivastory @Liz_M I love the podcast. 💙 2mo
vivastory @Billypar Have you read Jane Eyre? I have yet to read Wide Sargasso Sea, but I think a side-by-side read would be interesting 2mo
Billypar Yeah, I read it for the first time a couple years ago, so I think I can remember it decently enough, though side-by-side would be great. 2mo
Billypar @Liz_M I should read it at some point - I did like the Dickens novels I read in school. But I always get cold feet when considering really long books 😬 2mo
Liz_M @vivastory I loved A Tale of Two Cities when I read it in high school -- I haven't revisited it because I don't want to dislike it on a reread. I didn't much care for Great Expectations and didn't like Oliver Twist. David Copperfield was fine as was Little Dorrit. A Christmas Carol was better than I expected (but still an okay read). I hated the first half of Hard Times, which I just read recently. 2mo
Liz_M @Billypar Well, there is difficult-long and then there is long. Dickens at least is easy reading, with a chapter a day/week strategy it wouldn't take all the time. 2mo
Billypar @Liz_M That's a good thought: I added the 33 hour audiobook to my list. I think that's my format for this. 2mo
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So weird!

Eggs Pretty bouquet🩷 i love glads!! 8mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Well that was uniquely disturbing and insightful. I'd definitely put this more in "suburbia and early decades of modern housewife-ry are/were hell (feels like 50's/60s, published in the 80s?) and universal human and animal rights should be a thing" than "weird little creature book." A lot of despair for 111 pages. Warning for mentions of SA.

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This novella was so much sadder than I expected. Yes there is the oddity of a housewife starting an affair with a sea creature but there is also so much loss in her life. Dorothy‘s life is largely empty with her crumbling marriage and grief so it is not surprising that she would grasp happiness in any form. Dorothy has to explain her world to her new lover and in doing so realizes how much of it she doesn‘t understand herself. An interesting read.

readordierachel Great review. You captured it. 3y
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DebinHawaii
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I had to set this one aside a few times to read books for review but finished tonight. Strange but very good. Lonely, grieving for her son & her marriage crumbling, Dorothy hides a green amphibious man who has escaped the local ocean research lab. Larry brings some spark back to her life (along with a lot of🥑🥑🥑😉) I loved it except for the ending. Thanks to @ladyneverwhere who had it as part of her #NewYearWhoDis list for introducing me to it.

ladyneverwhere I'm so glad you liked it! And it's so weird that we posted our books at almost the exact same time 😂 3y
DebinHawaii @ladyneverwhere Hah! That is funny! This was really good—so glad you recommended it. I am going to finish “So You Talk About Race” tomorrow too. 🤗 3y
monalyisha I bought this one for myself years ago & then never read it. 🙈 The concept is so intriguing...& now I want to know if I‘d agree with you about the end! 3y
DebinHawaii @monalyisha It‘s a fast read unless you leave it for other books. 😉 And it wasn‘t a really bad ending, just abrupt. I say read it! 3y
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tenar
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A depressed housewife has her desires fulfilled when a hulking fishman escapes from a laboratory and walks into her kitchen.

Unfortunately I couldn‘t emotionally follow this all the way to its dramatic end - I didn‘t know what I was meant to be feeling. But I loved its tender subversiveness, both in its upending of monster tropes and in its questioning of the unwritten rules of society, marriage, & gender. Brief, unique, feminist, worth a read.

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@readordierachel That ending though!?! Why?!? 😔 She was quite naive about quite a few things, but still. I hate Estelle, by the way. 😠 😤

Ps. The audiobook was a bit monotone, so not the most entertaining and engaging audiobook on the market, but I think the tone fit the book.

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readordierachel 🤣 I know, it really goes off the rails at the end there, doesn't it?? I'm glad you liked it! 3y
TheBookAddict @readordierachel yes! And he doesn‘t even come back, so is she really the cause of destruction?!? There are just too many questions! 😔🤷🏽‍♀️ 3y
readordierachel I started to wonder if he'd really been there at all. Because she was hearing the radio talking directly to her in the beginning. Maybe she was having some kind of delusion brought on my grief? Sooo many questions. 3y
TheBookAddict @readordierachel right, I thought that too. Especially since she stopped hearing the radio talking to her when he appeared. Don‘t really know anymore. It‘s quite sad that she had no one she could trust except for the man that helped her with her garden. Fred is a piece of work and I hate him. 😅 3y
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readordierachel
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This novella is hard to describe. I'll try. A lonely, grieving housewife finds a frog man (? - for lack of a better description) in her kitchen. A relationship forms. Reminded me a little bit of The Shape of Water (the film). But there is a lot simmering inside this strange stew. All I know is it kept me compulsively turning pages, the last ~10 of which kinda floored me. Weird and good. 4⭐

vivastory I'm intrigued! 3y
readordierachel @vivastory I think you would like it! 3y
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LeahBergen I have this waiting on my shelves. 👍🏻 3y
Cathythoughts Well that‘s quite a review ... stacking 👍🏻❤️ 3y
batsy Nicely described 😁❤️ Would stack it but I see I already have! 3y
readordierachel @TheBookAddict Weirdly, it's more straightforward than it sounds 3y
TheBookAddict 🙂👍🏽 I definitely have to give it a try. Here I go, adding another hold even though I currently have 20 books checked out. 😅🤷🏽‍♀️ In my defense, I have to return 3 already. 3y
readordierachel @TheBookAddict You're not alone 😆 3y
readordierachel @LeahBergen Look forward to your thoughts on it! 3y
TheBookAddict 😆👍🏽 3y
charl08 Sounds a bit like Helen Oyeyemi? 3y
readordierachel @charl08 More straightforward I would say. The 2 Oyeyemi's I've read were much dreamier, if that makes sense. This was a totally normal, mundane world that just happened to include a frog man. 3y
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DebinHawaii
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My finished Mini Wonton Vegetable Soup is has great flavor & the mini wontons are fun to eat. It‘s a vegan soup with lots of veggies that I adapted from a Mark Bittman recipe. Link to recipe post👇🏻

Trying to get a bit more of this one read. It‘s short & good but I have 2 book reviews due this week & a bunch of books I am trying to read for January. 📚📚📚😬📚📚So many books, so little time!

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DebinHawaii
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Closing Sunday with peppermint bark ice cream & magic shell (I‘m eating my feelings about going back to work tomorrow) 🙁 and starting my first book for #NewYearWhoDis

I am excited about this one—it sounds quirky & I‘m happy it was one of my partner‘s favorites.
Thanks @ladyneverwhere 🤗

Sargar114 Both the ice cream and the book look great!!! 3y
rubyslippersreads I‘ve had this on my TBR list for ages, mainly because it reminds me of a favorite movie, The Shape of Water. 3y
DebinHawaii @Sargar114 Yes, the ice cream was & the book so far! 😉 3y
DebinHawaii @rubyslippersreads Yes! That‘s what drew me to picking it from her list! 🤗 3y
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tenar
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In an effort to pep myself out of a deep December reading slump, I‘m going to try to squeeze these three under-200-pagers in before the year‘s end.

We have a classic Japanese locked-room murder mystery, a repressed housewife‘s magical realism affair with a fishman, and a tale of a powerful young mage and his dark shadow - a reread, rare for me.

Wish me luck! I hope you all are having as lovely of a holiday season as is possible right now.

rockpools Good luck! I love the covers of all three of these 😊 3y
Suet624 Good luck!! 3y
tenar I did it, y‘all! Thanks so much for wishing me luck @rockpools @Suet624 ☺️ 3y
Suet624 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊 3y
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DebinHawaii
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My #NewYearWhoDis list comes from @ladyneverwhere & I‘m going attempt at least 2 books in January. The tagged book sounds interesting & So You Want to Talk About Race has been on my #TBR stack for awhile. I also have The Widows of Malabar Hill on my Kindle which in my mind I must read before I start The Satapur Moonstone from the list as I just can‘t read series books out of order🤷🏻‍♀️so I‘ll attempt to get to those two & maybe Binti as well.📚

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Chara-Dreemur
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Very sad and wistful, and surreal at times.

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#30JuneBooks @howjessreads Green books

I'm too lazy to pull all my green books for a picture so I saved my review of this green book for today.

Lonely housewife in what seems like a 50s time period hides an escaped frog like male humanoid and romance? ensues. Seems like it would be fun but really kinda boring. Written well before 'The shape of water' movie, maybe an inspiration?

Reggie You still make it sound intriguing. Lol. Stacked. 5y
mreads @Reggie at least it's short 😀👍 5y
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8little_paws
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This is genius. So sharp and wistful and clever and lonely all in just over 100 pages.

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This is all the more poignant as we know that her son died young and she immediately miscarried her pregnancy after his death. 😭

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8little_paws
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Had a terrific time celebrating #indiebookstoreday at four great Chicago bookstores with @WhatDeeReads , @cdreincarnate and @atlasclouded plus another non litsy friend. Definitely going to binge read the top book on this pile, which I've tagged, tonight.

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Lindy
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A witty and warm feminist novella that combines the bizarre with the mundane in a delightful way. Ingalls pushes the boundaries of genre by having a sentient sea creature show up at the door of an unhappy housewife. The tightly-controlled narrative goes on to explore our struggles with human failings. Sensual, bittersweet and absolutely astonishing. 💚

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She wants to be a choreographer. She says she has an idea for a whole series of ballets based on the chemical combinations of molecules in action, or something like that.

(Photo—not photoshopped—of my niece Anna, who also enjoys creating choreography.)

TrishB Great photo 👍🏻 5y
Lindy @TrishB I think so too. When the photographer says “jump!” Anna jumps. 5y
DivineDiana Go Anna! That‘s impressive on many levels! ❤️ (edited) 5y
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Lindy @DivineDiana 😊[proud auntie] 5y
wanderinglynn That‘s amazing! 👍🏻👍🏻 And a lovely background too. 5y
Annl Great jump and great acenary 5y
Annl Scenery 5y
LeahBergen Beautiful! 5y
Lindy @wanderinglynn @Annl The Rockies are always a good bet for background scenery. 🏔 5y
Redwritinghood Wonderful picture! And this book is so good. Hope you like it. 5y
Lindy @Redwritinghood I am loving this book. 😊 5y
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Lindy
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I‘m so bummed about the election results in my province that I needed a book to calm my mind. It‘s working.

“Your instinct for romance is very powerful in your teens.”
“Romance, right. Romance and tragedy. Except, now that I‘m older, what I really go for is comedy. Even the international situation. My God, what a circus.”

tournevis There is not enough space in this format to properly rant about that man, who made sure that children adopted internationnaly have a second-tier citizenship, on par with any immigrant, which can be revocked at the lamest provocation. I hate this man. So profoundly. Alberta should be ashamed. 5y
Lindy @tournevis Agreed. The 55% of Albertans who voted for him should be ashamed to have voted in support of hate and greed. 5y
ReadingEnvy I read an article about how librarians in Alberta are rushing to archive the government's info. Ugh. 5y
Lindy @ReadingEnvy Ugh is right. I‘m not in the habit of posting political comments online, but I was feeling quite discouraged by my fellow Albertans. 5y
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Lindy
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40 pages in, I‘m getting strong The Shape of Water vibes from this novella, which predates the movie by over three decades.

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I forget what I wanted to ask her, but I picked up a plate and started off for the kitchen. She‘d just switched on her coffee grinder—we could hear it from the table; I went through the swing door, and there was the coffee grinder screaming away empty, and there was Jeanie, spooning instant coffee into eight cups.

gradcat I want to win...😂 5y
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I'm trying to pick books by women, with a feminist storyline or strong female MC for the #NoFemmeber photochallenge.

#AmericanHorror

The tagged book is on my TBR.

@Billypar @Cinfhen
#YesFemmeberInNovember 😉

CarolynM Great idea 5y
Cinfhen Good for you!!! I‘m impressed!!! 5y
Cinfhen And this book sounds a lot like 5y
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Cathythoughts Great idea ❤️👍🏻 5y
julesG @Cinfhen @rubyslippersreads - and now I know why Shape of Water sounded so familiar. 5y
Billypar Great idea! I'll look forward to seeing your choices ☺️ 5y
Redwritinghood This one is really good. I recommend it. 5y
monalyisha This one‘s on mine, too! I bought it months ago to support a new local indie store but I still haven‘t cracked it open! 5y
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khooliha
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Short and strange and sad. "Love with the proper amphibian" indeed.

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Getting around to the Blind Date With a Book I got a couple months ago and so far it's a weird little bite.

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AmandaL
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#July2018stats Ten books!
1 audiobook, 2 ebooks, 7 books
4 fiction (1 YA, 1 #romantsy, 1 children's classic)
6 Nonfiction (1 YA graphic, 2 memoir)

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AmandaL
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I read this on #Libby in one sitting. I wasn't sure what to expect. At first, I thought it would just be campy and ridiculous. It was actually pretty heartbreaking.

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3.5🌟🌟🌟.💫A quirky tragic tale that I liked, but I‘m honestly not really sure I enjoyed as much as I hoped I would🤔. The author had a very brilliant approach w/this book, but certain gaps leave it just a tad bit lacking but nonetheless still brilliant in my opinion. I like when authors are able to capture the essence of an era, & this does exactly that. I definitely want to own this book & will probably read it again from time to time 🐸💚☺️🙃

MaleficentBookDragon 🐸 🐸🐸🐸 6y
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This is not The Shape of Water, although the two works share the plot point of a woman falling in love with an intelligent sea-creature. This novel was a meditation on suburban life and marriage. It explored the motivations behind self-destructive behaviors and intimate relationships. The prose is clear and simple, and it contrasts with the complexity of the characters. I appreciated its purpose rather than loved the entire story.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Lovely review—I‘m stacking all your books today! 6y
Bookboss Aw, thank you! 6y
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Redwritinghood
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The premise of this book sounds bizarre - a lonely, grieving housewife encounters a frogman-like creature and they become lovers. Real or imagined? Hard to say, but death follows her everywhere and it may just be a means to cope. The descriptions in this novella are often unexpected and fresh, and Ingalls has quite a way with dialogue. Sharp one-liners exist alongside beautifully-drawn details. An interesting story about grief and loneliness.

Libby1 Ooh! This sounds like another spinoff from The Tempest! 6y
Redwritinghood @Libby1 Absolutely! I think the name Caliban is intentional here. 6y
readordierachel Glad to hear you liked it! I've been wanting to read this. 6y
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Redwritinghood @ReadOrDieRachel It‘s only a little over 100 pages so it‘s a super quick read. 6y
readordierachel Sweet! 6y
RohitSawant Great review! Looking forward to this. 6y
Redwritinghood @rohit-sawant Thanks! 6y
SamHeartCoffee Awesome review! 6y
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A simultaneously fun and poignant read! A must get if you loved The Shape of Water!
- @malloryomeara

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If you are only going to consume one piece of art about a woman fucking a fish man, make it “Mrs. Caliban.”

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Managed to finish Book 1 for #24in48!!

A woman falls in love with an amphibious alien-like creature. That‘s all I will say regarding the plot of this pretty awesome book. If you loved or are interested in the movie The Shape of Water—read this. If you want to know how in the world a woman can be in love with a creature from the sea—read this book. If you need an entertaining 128 page read for #24in48—read this book. ♥️

mrozzz Wow..... 6y
bookloo @mrozzz Is this a good wow or a “that‘s freaking weird” wow? 😝 6y
mrozzz Both! I really want to see Shape of Water so I‘m intrigued... 6y
bookloo @mrozzz I‘m actually going to catch the movie tomorrow! I just had to read this first since I noticed they were so similar in story. ☺️ 6y
mrozzz Cool! Enjoy 😊 6y
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At 84 pages in ebook format, this barely qualifies as a novella, let alone a novel. However, in that short space, this story of a lonely housewife falling in love with a lizard man manages to be touching, humorous, and heartbreaking.

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I haven't read it yet; it went straight to the TBR when I heard about it. As per the blurb, "a tender, clandestine" love affair between a seven-foot-tall lizard man and a woman.

#LoveNeedsNoDisguise #nuyear @TrishB @Cinfhen

DivineDiana All I can say is WOW!!! 6y
batsy @DivineDiana Me too, I'm sure it's a tricky thing to write about well. I'm intrigued! 6y
Cinfhen Um, this would probably work for #booked2018 #unconventionalRomance 🤓 6y
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REPollock This book is weird but sweet. It‘s a quick read, too. 6y
batsy Totally, @Cinfhen ! 6y
batsy @REPollock That's great to know! Weird but sweet is probably one of the hardest things to do without being twee. 6y
Lacythebookworm Yes!! I want to read this one, too!! 6y
RohitSawant Now Eliza and the creature from The Shape of Water have someone to go on a double date with. 6y
batsy @Lacythebookworm It sounds really good 😊 6y
batsy @rohit-sawant 😂 I haven't watched it yet, have you? 6y
RohitSawant @batsy I'm dying to! I absolutely love del Toro. It has yet to be released in my corner of the globe. I've been looking forward to it since I saw the trailer, and more so after Joe Hill described it as kind of a sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon written by John Steinbeck and directed by Truffaut. 6y
batsy @rohit-sawant I'm really keen to watch it as well and it's not here yet, either. I think we're only getting it in March. That's a fabulous description and makes me think I should re-watch Black Lagoon ahead of this. 6y
TrishB Wow ! What a choice 👍🏻 6y
readordierachel I mean, what more could you ask for? 6y
batsy @ReadOrDieRachel Precisely 😊 6y
saresmoore You are the photo challenge champion! 6y
rubyslippersreads @rohit-sawant 😂 6y
Suet624 Excuse me? 6y
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After escaping a duo of sadistic scientists, Larry the sea monster shows up at the door of a lonely housewife named Dorothy and reinvigorates her mundane life. Is Larry real, or is he merely Dorothy's fantasy—the antithesis of her husband and her boring existence? This quirky and charming novella is also a biting work of social satire and feminist fiction, existing in the gap between reality and fantasy, grief and joy, acquiescence and agency.

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? ATTN great new (old?) word alert ?! "Horripilation" is here and she's ready for her comeback. Need to describe how reading Trump's tweets make you feel? She's got you. Browsing Redfin and suddenly realizing you'll never be able to afford a house? Boom. Swiping through Tinder and see your ex? Honey, it is ON. "Horripilation" - Shantay, you stay.

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Trying to pick books for #192019 can be hard - so many options for 1982 alone!

#192019challenge #birthdaychallenge

Centique Those covers look amazing together! 7y
Lindy Must you limit yourself to one? 7y
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Marchpane @Lindy one for the challenge (100 years = 100 books) and the rest will be added to my giant TBR 😁 7y
llwheeler What is #192019? 7y
Marchpane @llwheeler it's a challenge to read a book published in each year from 1920 to 2019, 100 books in all! 7y
llwheeler @Marchpane Oh I see, fun :) 7y
Lindy @Marchpane It's great to have an embarrassment of riches, isn't it? 7y
Marchpane @Lindy absolutely!! 7y
azulaco Where did the #192019challenge come from? It sounds interesting, but I can't find much information about it online. I think I want to pick it up, and maybe combine with the #birthdaychallenge. 7y
azulaco Never mind, I just found the post where you said that *you* invented #192019challenge, and it's intended to be a three-year challenge. It is exactly the kind of list-based challenge I like! 7y
Marchpane @azulaco I hope you decide to do it! It's got me picking up some amazing books 😊 7y
ApoptyGina69 I've been meaning to get to Mrs. caliban. Thanks for the reminder! 👍there are lots of great ones there. 7y
Redheadrambles Oh that House of Spirits is so good 7y
Suet624 I missed reading about the challenge as well. It's an interesting idea. I may try it too. 7y
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catpdx
Mrs. Caliban: A Novel | Rachel Ingalls
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Quite a mix of books I've picked up this week. 'Mrs. Caliban' is oddly delightful - I've never read anything quite like it. Clever and imaginative, but surprisingly dark and affecting.

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Misanthropester
Mrs. Caliban: A Novel | Rachel Ingalls
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Reading this alongside Atwood's 'Hagseed' is gonna be fun

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Britafish
Mrs. Caliban: A Novel | Rachel Ingalls
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Good-bye mountain reading spot. Till next year.