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Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero
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Mehso-so

I read this book about a month ago and am just catching up on reviews now. I had noted it as a three star but… now I can‘t remember a single story in this collection. The stories are horror-tinged and dark is all I recall but nothing else made enough of an impact to linger. I guess that says everything.

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Jas16
Binstead's Safari | Rachel Ingalls
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Pickpick

Married couple Millie and Stan head to Africa on safari m. Stan doesn‘t want Millie to come along. He doesn‘t really want Millie at all any more but once they embark the oddest thing happens, Millie no longer cares what Stan wants. She comes into her own with new friends, new talent, and new love. That is just the start of their journey.After reading Mrs Caliban I knew I needed to read more by Ingalls. This was just as strange and marvelous.

Jas16 This was my last book for #24in2024. 9mo
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Bookwomble
Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero
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Pickpick

I was mistaken in thinking Giovanna Rivero's stories were of the horror genre, though some of the themes, especially the first two stories, are horrific and terrifying, as the blurb mentions.
It's hard to sum them up, but if I say that they would be good material for David Lynch or Guillermo del Toro to adapt to film, that gives a sense of their disturbing, unsettling character.
The stories are set in Bolivia, Canada and USA, featuring ⬇️½

Bookwomble ... Bolivian MCs, mostly women, and indigenous people and traditions are prominent, as are themes of immigration and translocation. A disquieting 4⭐😰
I've given some CWs in a previous post tagged to the book, which are the tip of the iceberg.
12mo
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Bookwomble
Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero
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'Was it warm, this sticky fluid you found down there?'

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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Bookwomble I\'ve read the first two of the six stories, and content warnings already included: child sexual abuse, rape, religious abuse, murder and cannibalism. Not as gratuitous as it perhaps sounds, but is graphic enough to be triggering, I think. (edited) 12mo
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Bookwomble
Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero
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#Halloween #Samhain
While I'm happy to read horror stories at any time of the year, it's undeniably atmospheric to do so as summer shifts to autumn, with the promise of winter ahead.
I'm starting off the season with the tagged book, and others I've lined up are:
•Tales of Horror & the Supernatural, Arthur Machen
•The Midnight People, Peter Haining, ed.
•Sea Tales of Terror, J. J. Starting, ed.
•I Can't Sleep at Night, Kurt Singer, ed.
🧡🍂🎃🍂🧡

Bookwomble Some or none of which my mood-reader self might actually pick off the shelf! 😏📚 12mo
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Bookwomble
Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero
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Durham has two Waterstones shops: I got the book of horror stories by Bolivian author Rivero from the "standard" shop, and the book of Perec essays from the "Plus" shop, which caters for students and has some secondhand, remaindered and academic stock you don't normally see in their mainstream stores.
I'm hoping the horror stories aren't TOO horrific, and that the essays in the Perec don't duplicate those in the Penguin edition I've already read.

The_Book_Ninja Hurricane Womble is tearing through Durham!💨 12mo
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja It's blowing a flipping hurricane here today! Driving back home tomorrow, but will stop off in nearby Barnard Castle to check my eyesight is ok for the journey 🤓 12mo
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble That‘s the safest way to do it to be fair 12mo
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sisilia
The Deepening Stream | Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Almost halfway and it‘s been so good! 🤓

LeahBergen It‘s a big one! 13mo
sisilia @LeahBergen Yeah 😆 Persephone chunkster! It‘s very easy to read, though 13mo
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