Not having read Mantel’s memoir, “Giving Up the Ghost,” I was a little befuddled by some of these stories – they return again and again to similar settings and situations but with…
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“Blodsuger” by John Langan
All of the stories in Ellen Datlow’s anthology “Screams From the Dark” are great – she is far and away the best collector of horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories working today…
The Girl From Rawblood by Catriona Ward
The story of a cursed family is told through several voices in three different time periods – around 1840, around 1890, and in the aftermath of the First World War.
2021 Reading Overview
I logged 65 books read last year on LibraryThing, starting with A.K. Larkwood’s fantasy novel “The Unspoken Name” (finished January 22) and ending with Catriona Ward’s un-shelvable “The Last House on Needless…