![]() The great green Ancient One is by far the most famous entity in the Cthulhu mythos and thus a fitting starting point for our series. Chances are very likely that at some point in your life you’ve seen a depiction of Cthulhu or heard a reference to him. It is supposed to be so terrifying to see that it wrecks the sanity of those who witness it. “A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.” according to the description of Cthulhu Mythos. It was originally mentioned in his short tale “The Call of Cthulhu,” which was published in 1928 by the American pulp magazine Weird Tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft developed the fictitious cosmic creature Cthulhu. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is a darkly magic and sexy book that has a strong suspense line running through it. And through it all, David feels as though he is getting closer to the secrets of his own past. When David gets embroiled in a fiercely torrid love triangle, the stakes turn more and more menacing. Something different is happening in this town. The characters have a suspicious edge to them…David is haunted by eerie visions of a mysterious man carrying a rope, walking hand-in-hand with a small child…and the resort is under siege by a plague of ladybugs. ![]() But something undeniable has called David there.Ī deeper otherworldliness lies beneath the surface of what we see. This is against the wishes of his family…because it was at this resort where David’s biological father disappeared fifteen years earlier. ![]() The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit by Graham JoyceĬritically acclaimed author Graham Joyce returns with a sexy, suspenseful,and slightly supernatural novel set 1976 England during the hottest summer in living memory, in a seaside resort where the past still haunts the present.ĭavid, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down family resort in a dying English resort town. There’s nothing like a Wednesday for thinking about the books we want to read! My Wishing & Waiting on Wednesday post is linking up with two fabulous book memes, Wishlist Wednesday (hosted by Pen to Paper) and Waiting on Wednesday (hosted by Breaking the Spine). ![]() ![]() I have a cast iron stomach and could theoretically read the most revolting scenes while eating. Today, I read through the Great London Plague 1665, most of which I read while eating lunch and dinner. Don’t get me wrong, it’s the good kind of exhausted, the smoke a cig after reading kind of exertion. ![]() It clocks in at a monsterous 900+ pages and, even reading it during work hours, I don’t seem to be making a dent in this mother. I’ve been reading Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor for the past two weeks. I have a horrid habit of “forgetting” to blog my books once I finish them and have, to my shame, acculmulated a backlist of ‘books read never to be reviewed.’ I’m going to blog my books as I read them. ![]() As I’ve been a very neglectful blogger these past months, I thought I’d try something new. ![]() ![]() ![]() i was annoyed by pretty much every single character in this book, but i think that's because of the bad writing.ĥ. i'm not saying that she never writes well - this is only the second book of hers that i've read ( rubyfruit jungle is the other) so i'm not prepared to say that, but i have not seen evidence to the contrary so far.Ĥ. it's all forced and just really badly written. she writes like an adolescent who is a good writer would write. maybe all of the discussion around the main points is so unsatisfying is because she is a pretty bad writer. i am always saying, though, that everyone gets to label themselves, so this is hypocritical and petty of me.ģ. and for whatever reason, it bothered me that throughout the book she called herself gay and lesbian, but also kept talking about how she still liked men also (there's even a sex scene with her and an overuse of the word cock). she's coming from the right place, but her discussion of all of this stuff (except for maybe the 'be true to yourself' one) is really sub-par. and the idea of the story for this book is a good one, too.Ģ. also about religion and its use and value, what it's meant to be. she tries to make the reader think about oppression (specifically racism, homophobia, heterosexism, and here and there sexism). i believe that she is trying to make us realize how important it is to be yourself and not to live for other people and their impressions of you. I have very mixed feelings about this book.ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. If you are trying to contact Chuck Palahniuk, sending emails to this website will not get you there. The opinions expressed in the news updates, content pages and message boards are not the opinions of Chuck Palahniuk nor his publishers. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Chuck Palahniuk himself should not be held accountable nor liable for any of the content posted on this website. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. ![]() We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. ![]() No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Six tall Indian warders were guarding him and getting him ready for the gallows. He had a thick, sprouting moustache, absurdly too big for his body, rather like the moustache of a comic man on the films. He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes. One prisoner had been brought out of his cell. ![]() These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. ![]() ![]() Groff is asking the court to reconsider a ruling in the 1977 case Trans World Airlines v. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Groff last year, the Supreme Court will hear the postal worker's case, Groff v. Groff claimed that he was forced to resign from his job in 2019 because USPS would not “honor personal religious beliefs.”Īfter the U.S. Postal Service in 2012 and accused his former employer of refusing to provide reasonable accommodations for his religious practices. Supreme Court to rule in favor of Gerald Groff, who began working for the U.S. ![]() Jewish groups have come to the defense of an Evangelical Christian postal worker who claims he was forced out of his job for refusing to work Sundays, the Christian day of the sabbath.Ī joint amicus brief filed last Tuesday by the American Jewish Committee and religious scholars Asma Uddin and Steven Collis asked the U.S. A mail truck sits parked on the side of the street. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s a member of one of the biggest K-pop bands in the world-and he’s strictly forbidden from dating. Three months later, when Jenny and her mother arrive in South Korea to take care of her ailing grandmother, she’s shocked to discover that Jaewoo is a student at the same elite arts academy where she’s enrolled for the semester. But in a moment of spontaneity, she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for one unforgettable night of adventure…before he disappears without a word. When she meets mysterious, handsome Jaewoo in her uncle’s Los Angeles karaoke bar, it’s clear he’s the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. Cello prodigy Jenny has one goal: to get into a prestigious music conservatory. ![]() ![]() ![]() The third part, Háttatal, is a trilogy of heroic poetry demonstrating the techniques of Skáldskaparmál (it is not included in this translation because of the translator's conviction that its highly technical nature "forbids" its effective translation into English). The second part, Skáldskaparmál, presented as a dialogue between Ægir, the God of the Sea and Bragi, the God of Poetry, is a fascinating textbook on skaldic poetry, including the uses of alliteration and kennings. The first part of the Prose Edda is the Gylfaginning (The Tricking of Gylfi), dealing with the creation of the world and the major elements of Norse mythology. ![]() The two Eddas have had a profound effect on European literature in both style and content, not least on J.R.R. ![]() ![]() Along with the Elder or Poetic Edda written by an unknown poet a half-century earlier, the Prose Edda is a major source of much older Norse mythology as it had evolved through the generations. Translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1888 - 1971)Īlso known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) ![]() ![]() ![]() Which Domestic Noir Novel Should You Read? 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