May 2015

books
May Books

May's books are related to February's books, in that I didn't connect with a lot of what I read. The month started off right with Alien, the novelization of the movie by Alan Dean Foster. Some part of my brain thinks I read this a million years ago, but so much of the book was […]

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writing
Fantastique

I think the first giallo film I saw was The Bird With the Crystal Plumage. My young brain immediately mashed it up with The Maltese Falcon, because mysteries and birds and ladies and jewels and black and white films and -- From there, things also filed under spooky and eeek were Les Diaboliques and Wait […]

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books
April Books

What is this sorcery -- writing about what I'm reading for four months in a row. Suspicious. The book I opened April with is the book I still haven't finished, The Stress of Her Regard, by Tim Powers. It is a book I didn't quite expect, very Gothic, involving Byron and Shelley and ladies who […]

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