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People wander through the snow in despair; a strange bird accosts two fur-coated gentlemen; random objects fall from the sky; an orphan child freezes to death by the roadside; vague figures lurk at the peripheries; there is no narrative, nor any explanation other than those the reader willfully imposes or has unwillingly evoked.
Yes, it's Edward Gorey 🪦

#Bookreport

📚Currently reading:

📕Fire & Blood
📕Akechi Kogoro
📙The Witness for the Dead

Progress:
last week was super productive in terms of books I've finished. 4 anthologies and Project Hail Mary was a delight. I moved on to Fire & Blood, but I still need to pick something lighter to listen to between F&B and detective fiction. Hoping next week will be similarly productive.

These were really interesting. This one included some sketches as well.

These are getting harder to find, but I am really enjoying the variety in these complications.

These were all so interesting, would definitely recommend these anthologies, especially for the Halloween season.

I'm surprised I haven't heard much about Edward Gorey before, his work is so morbidly delightful.

My fav coffee table book of the spooky season…actually I think every single post for this book on Litsy is just me raving about it for various #scarathalonphotochallenges skeleton prompts 😅 #batbrigade

Informative, somewhat macabre, Gorgeous. Part photography book part history tome. I learned a bit and was in awe of the photographs. Will definitely check out this authors other book about ossuaries.

I wanted something fun and fast, but God, was this one a slog.

Most of the narration is the first person, and the narrator is unreliable (which is great) and cringingly unlikable (which is not). I like reading about bad people—unless they‘re basic bastards.

Were we supposed to sympathize...?

(I so did not)

And the creepy instalove. Oh my gawd, the instalove 🤮

(The MC‘s credibility we‘ll not talk about)

Why can‘t I just DNF books???

1.5/5