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The hellbound heart book cover6/29/2023 ![]() Slenderman Video: Author Lee McGeorge Explores the Home of Slenderman!įear the Future: 10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Horror Novels Ranking Every Stephen King Novel, From Worst to First! ![]() Here are 10 Classic Scary Stories to Read for Free!ĥ Horror Authors You Have to Read and Follow in 2016! Is Stephen King Really the Greatest Horror Contributor of All Time? Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell and 16 Other Amazing Horror Authors Tell Us What Books Terrify Them! Interview: Jack Ketchum Talks Horror Roots and New Book ‘The Secret Life of Souls’ĥ Horror Novels That Deserve a Video Game Adaptation When in Paris, Revisit Gaston Leroux’s Timeless Masterpiece ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Thrift Store Finds: Save the Last Dance for Me ![]()
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Echo Boy by Matt Haig6/29/2023 ![]() Her father is very critical of all the technological advancements that have been made, and cautions his family as well as the world at large against implicitly trusting technology. They are basically designed to be slaves.Īudrey Castle is a teenage girl who lives in a relatively low-tech environment for the time, with her parents. They are stronger and faster than humans, they have no emotions and no capacity for critical thought or curiosity – at least they’re not supposed to. ![]() They look human, they are built from flesh and blood, but they also have an operating system. ECHO stands for Enhanced Computerised Humanoid Organism, and they’re essentially very advanced androids. ![]() A lot of scientific advancements have been made, including ECHOs. This story is set in an imagined not too distant future, in the year 2115. Audible version, narrated by Jane Collingwood and Thomas Judd. ![]()
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The dutch house audible6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() However, I have to add that I didn’t actually read this book. The characters were so well developed in this story of a family, its wealth and dysfunction. I can certainly say that the trend continues as I was enthralled with The Dutch House. I have never been disappointed after reading a book written by Ann Patchett. ![]() Maybe I should thank her outstanding staff? As with all Patchett’s books, The Dutch House is a good book for book clubs. I have loved Patchett’s writing since reading Bel Canto, and I have no idea how she writes these brilliant novels while running a bookstore. The peripheral characters, who worked for the Dutch House families through the years, are endearing. It represents the rejection and longing of the two Conroy children and the tension between Cyril and his two wives. The Dutch House itself is fascinating, described in exquisite detail and a wonderful setting for the story. ![]() ![]() Their father Cyril is an emotionally distant (but kind) man who chooses a younger woman with two small daughters and marries again. In The Dutch House, she examines the close relationship between Danny and Maeve Conroy, siblings whose mother abandoned them when Danny was a toddler and Maeve a small child. ![]()
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Mike bender awkward family photos6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() We also reached out to professional photographer Dominic Sberna. Upvote your fave pics, tell us which ones you loved the most, and share your own pics in the comments, dear Pandas.īored Panda got in touch with Mike Bender, the co-founder of Awkward Family Photos and a bestselling NYT author. ![]() And we’re serving a healthy dose of that to you today, in the form of awkward family Christmas photos, as shared by the delightfully goofy Awkward Family Photos project, as well as the separate but also incredibly fun r/awkwardfamilyphotos subreddit. Odds are that you’ve got a photo exactly like this, having posed with your relatives for a seasonal snapshot, whether at home or at a professional studio.Īwkwardness is one of those universal things that can make people facepalm and cringe no matter what part of the world they’re from. ![]()
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Fear and loathing the campaign trail 726/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Wenner and Corey Seymour, Sandy declares, “The only way to say it is that I was just gone. ![]() Reflecting on first falling for Hunter in Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. The two met through mutual friends in New York City in 1958. Sandy Thompson (nee Conklin now Sondi Wright) was Hunter’s first wife. – Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 “To Sandy, who endured almost a year of grim exile in Washington, DC while this book was being written.” His masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for example, is in part dedicated to Bob Geiger “for reasons that need not be explained here.” Those reasons are explained below. He was sitting at the kitchen table, where he did much of his writing.īefore his death, Thompson had published 15 books-some journalism, some fiction, many his own brand of the two, which a friend dubbed “gonzo journalism.” Throughout those works, Thompson pays tribute to his family, friends and influences, often through dedications, although sometimes in exceedingly vague terms. Relax-This won’t hurt.įour days later, Thompson shot himself. Instead, the then 67-year-old author composed a typewritten note addressed to himself: Football season had just ended, which always left him morose, but he was also suffering from surgery-related pain in his hip and back, which made walking difficult-to say nothing of his favorite activities, swimming and blowing things up. Thompson was sitting in his home in Woody Creek, Colorado. ![]()
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The trial kafka pages6/29/2023 ![]() Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors. ![]() His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony" (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).ĭespite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature. Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world. ![]()
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Stanislas cordova6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The Dark Arts: Cordova is revealed to have been practicing black magic.The doll was thought to be lost but then it's found in an abandoned kiddie pool, severely disfigured. Creepy Doll: Devold's daughter's doll.She also plays one in one of her father's films, about a young girl who brutally murders her entire family. Creepy Child: Ashley is described as this by several people who met her when she was a girl.Big, Screwed-Up Family: When factoring in non-genetic additions to the household such as Inez Gallo and Hugo Villarde, the Cordovas could be the archetypal example.Big Applesauce: New York City is a huge Crapsack World full of Satanists, obsessive film fans, and all the best culture in the world.Arc Symbol: The flying bird, in Cordova's films and in the book.Abandoned Warehouse: Ashley's body is found in one.Motivated by a desire to solve the mystery of the seemingly cursed Cordova family, and bolstered by revenge, McGrath conducts a private investigation of the reclusive director that will lead him into some very dark places. Years ago, McGrath's investigation into Cordova cost him his marriage and career. When Ashley Cordova, 24 year old daughter of legendary cult horror film director Stanislas Cordova, turns up the victim of an apparent suicide, investigative journalist Scott McGrath is on the case. ![]() The novel really blurs the line between reality and fiction ![]()
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Shadowhunters the eldest curses 36/29/2023 ![]() Once again, I’m going to include the link to emmmabooks video detailing the multiple ways you can read this series. I also just finished reading the most recent addition to the world, Chain of Gold, so I will be giving you a mini review of that book (as well as a suggestion on what to read before it, if you are only interested in reading the newest book). Since my last post, there have been some more books added to the series, so I thought I would post an updated list. While all of the books are in the same world, they are broken down into several different series, all of which build off of each other. ![]() However, if you have never read them before, it is a bit daunting and can be confusing figuring out where to start. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an amazing series, full of fascinating world-building and unforgettable characters. Hello everyone! Back in December 2018, I wrote the post this one is based off of, explaining how to read The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare. ![]()
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Dexter books jeff lindsay6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() So, here you have a serial killer with a difference, he works by his own moral codes for the better of the society. There are only two rules he follows: 1.Kill only if there is a strong evidence against the criminal and 2. He kills them in a symbolically selected spot which is, in some way, connected with the victims and the crime they have committed. His lives by the ‘Harry Code’ that he adapted from his adopted father ‘Harry’, which makes him kill psychopaths who have evaded the justice system. ![]() He suffers from schizoid personality disorder that makes him feel like an outsider to humanity and human emotions. Angel talks to him before going into the hospital room to see Gianna.ĭexter Morgan, the anti-hero of the Dexter novel series, is a forensic technician with the Miami-Dade Police Department and when he is not working on criminals, he is killing them. Trivia: Author Jeff Lindsay is seen in a brief cameo playing a cop in the hit TV series ‘Dexter’ in Episode 10 “Go Your Own Way”, Season 3. ![]()
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The great fire hazzard6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Helen, still younger, is inseparable from her brother. Benedict, at twenty, is doomed by a rare degenerative disease. Now in their thirties, with their youth behind them and their world in ruins, both must invent the future and retrieve a private humanity.Īrriving in Occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb in Hiroshima, Leith meets Benedict and Helen Driscoll, the Australian son and daughter of a tyrannical medical administrator. The men have maintained long-distance friendship in a postwar loneliness that haunts them both, and which has swallowed Exley whole. Both men have narrowly escaped death in battle, and Leith saved Exley's life. Peter Exley, another veteran and an art historian by training, is prosecuting war crimes committed by the Japanese. Son of a famed and sexually ruthless novelist, Leith begins to resist his own self-sufficiency nurtured by war. In its wake, Aldred Leith, an acclaimed hero of the conflict, has spent two years in China at work on an account of world-transforming change there. ![]() The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. ![]() |