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Post by scrubb on Apr 29, 2024 23:43:37 GMT -5
Had a quick reread of the first Mrs. Pollifax book yesterday. I needed easy listening for during my run, and the series is my "comfort reading".
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 30, 2024 5:15:10 GMT -5
His wiki page doesn't mention his radio gig! I guess it's kind of a quasi-secret? He has a piece on Medium that mentions it. pero only found out about it because someone in the internet chat associated with the show mentioned that he'd blurbed that unreadable book "House of Leaves," which then led to pero looking for who'd blurbed it, etc.
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Post by Queen on May 1, 2024 9:26:08 GMT -5
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
Which I heard of because the other bookclub I belong to had a theme of "Unreliable narrator" and someone recommended it.
It's definitely delightfully weird.
There's the castle (big house) where two sisters live with their uncle, one sister announces quite early in the book "the rest of my family are dead", and we're off on a rollicking scary yarn with an avaricious cousin, evil villagers, buried treasure, poison plants, omens and a fire.
I'm not usually a horror fan but I savoured this.
(Also I was quite far into the book before I realised it was set in New England rather than old England...there may have been earlier clues but it was a culinary tell that gave it away... hey ho)
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Post by Liiisa on May 1, 2024 10:46:11 GMT -5
Oh yeah, that's such a creepy book. Merricat is... disturbing.
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