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Magdalenka

Sleep While I Sing: Murder in a Small Town | L R Wright

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Bookwomble

Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero

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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. 1mo

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Bookwomble

Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero

'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) 1mo

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Bookwomble

Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero

#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! 😏📚 1mo

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Bookwomble

Fresh Dirt from the Grave | Giovanna Rivero

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!💨 1mo

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 🤓 1mo

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble That‘s the safest way to do it to be fair 1mo

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snapsnarlgrowl

The Letters of Shirley Jackson | Shirley Jackson

Shirley was an Elvis fan. Also Fats Domino, much to the distress of everyone else in the household.

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merelybookish

Leaving: A Novel | Roxana Robinson

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Former sweethearts Warren and Sarah reconnect in their early 60s and fall in love again. But Warren is still married, and has to choose between Sarah and his family. A soft pick. It treads a very fine line between carefully observed & dull. It also has one of the most annoying characters I've experienced in a while. And having read the reviews on here, I went in prepared for a shocking ending. And actually, the ending worked for me. 👇

merelybookish This book feels old-fashioned in a way, wrestling with moral questions like: what does it mean to make a promise? What happens if you break it? And so I found that refreshing even as I found some of the prose to be tedious. 2mo

merelybookish Picture of my final floral bounty from the garden. 🌹🌻🌸 2mo

Leftcoastzen Pretty flowers ! 2mo

merelybookish @Leftcoastzen Thank you! I am enjoying them while they last. 2mo

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snapsnarlgrowl

The Letters of Shirley Jackson | Shirley Jackson

I wouldn‘t care so much, but she‘s so specific about everything but her reading material, now that‘s she‘s out of college. She‘s always reading mysteries but never says which ones.