Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Books, RIP Challenge on Nov 1st, 2008
Carl’s R.I.P. Challenge ended yesterday and I completed it, finishing four books for Peril the First. I picked a long list to choose from and read two books from my original list and added two more. The four books I read are (click on the title to read my review): The House on the Strand [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, RIP Challenge, Short Stories on Oct 16th, 2008
The Body Snatcher and Olalla are two short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson included in my copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a Penguin Classic. Both stories were written for the Christmas “crawler” tradition in 1884 and 1885. Christmas was a season traditionally associated with supernatural and creepy tales. In [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, RIP Challenge on Oct 10th, 2008
Chocky by John Wyndham qualifies for the RIP Challenge in the Supernatural category. It seems at first as though Matthew has an invisible friend, just like his little sister’s Piff, who appeared when Polly was about five. Matthew at eleven seemed a little bit old for such a friend, and when his father overhears him having [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, RIP Challenge on Oct 3rd, 2008
I finished The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates last week and parts of it have remained in my mind. Mainly I think it’s the general atmosphere of its world. It’s a grim, dark world, a violent and pessimistic world, gothic and grotesque. In some ways it reminds me of Hardy’s novels – you know something terrible will [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, RIP Challenge, Sunday Salon on Sep 28th, 2008
This last week has been yet another week away from home and reading has had to be slotted in. I read late at night when I nodded off with a book in my hand or early in the mornings when the time speeds up at an alarming rate so I hardly felt I’d read much at [...]
Posted in Books, RIP Challenge on Aug 29th, 2008
It feels like autumn is very near now, if not actually here as I’ve noticed the leaves are already turning golden on some trees. And it’s that time of year approaching, when “things go bump in the night”, or in other words it’s time for the RIP III Challenge, Readers Imbibing Peril. This year I’m [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, RIP Challenge, Short Stories on Oct 29th, 2007
I started the R.I.P. Challenge II aiming to read just one book. It’s now nearly the end of the challenge and I have exceeded my target. I have read Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott, several short stories from Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, from the Great Ghost Stories collection published by the Chancellor [...]
Posted in Books, Fiction, RIP Challenge, Short Stories on Oct 27th, 2007
Great Ghost Stories This is a collection of ghost stories by different authors including G.K. Chesterton, Walter De La Mare, O. Henry, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, R.L.Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. So far I have read just a few of them and I’m looking forward to reading the rest. It’s a good book to dip into [...]
Posted in Books, RIP Challenge on Oct 7th, 2007
It seemed appropriate that I should read The Pit and The Pendulum today as on this day in 1849 (Oct. 7) Edgar Allan Poe died in mysterious circumstances in Baltimore in the Washington College Hospital. I have read several of Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination and so far had not found them to be [...]
Posted in Books, RIP Challenge on Oct 2nd, 2007
The Murders in the Rue Morgue from Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination. I’m finding these short stories interesting, if not spine chilling, although some of the descriptions (as in this story) turn my stomach. This short story is the forerunner of the detective story, in which an amateur discovers who committed the [...]
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