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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.
2mo
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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

CWs in comment.

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) 2mo
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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! 😏📚 2mo
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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!💨 2mo
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 🤓 2mo
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble That‘s the safest way to do it to be fair 2mo
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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! 3mo
sisilia @LeahBergen Yeah 😆 Persephone chunkster! It‘s very easy to read, though 3mo
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StaceGhost
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Pickpick

It‘s a great day for some Brontë research! I feel like I‘ve emerged from my chrysalis like a cicada— this past Spring Semester was the hardest so far.

I learned Yiddish, made two websites, did three digital humanities projects, read over a thousand pages, including three textbooks, and wrote over 50 pages.

It sounds weird but, after all that, focusing on just one paper feels almost luxurious.

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lauraisntwilder
The Turquoise Shop | Frances Crane
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I enjoy reading older mysteries, but the open racism and xenophobia can sometimes be a distraction. It was interesting, then, in this one, when the main character's preconceptions caused her to miss what was really happening. I enjoyed the easy dialogue and it felt (again, except for the open racism) much more recent than the 1940s. I would like to read more in this series--if I can find them. The others might be out of print.

lauraisntwilder Oh, I forgot! This was my #doublespin for April! @TheAromaofBooks 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Great review!!! 7mo
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DebinHawaii
What We Fed to the Manticore | Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
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#SpringSkies

I‘m planning on reading this book for an #AnimalPOV prompt on my #OUABC 40 book challenge. It‘s 9 stories, all told from animal points of view. I 💚the colorful cover.

“In nine stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.”

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous cover 🐯 🧡 8mo
Eggs Perfect 💙🖤🩷 8mo
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GatheringBooks
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#LuckyInLove Day 4: A #Bouquet of flowers spread out here, like so much wound and burning pain because “we are all equally far from love.” Cannot wait to read this.

Eggs Beautiful 🌺💔💐 10mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🥀❤️ 10mo
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Bookwomble
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"In 2018 the city of Toronto wheeled out a solution to its infamous trash panda dilemma."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

ShyBookOwl 😅 11mo
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