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Review: The Guide by Peter Heller
Author: Peter HellerPublisher: Alfred A. KnopfReleased: August 24, 2021Received: Own (Book Club) Find it on Goodreads | More Thrillers Book Summary: Jack is no stranger to guilt and loss. Yet his most recent loss has him reeling. Desperate to escape it all, he takes on a position to work as a guide in what feels like the middle of nowhere. With the pandemic rising, the isolation is only going…
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Mystery/Thriller Monday
Jack is a wilderness guide at the Kingfisher Lodge, a retreat away from everything for very rich people. He’s on what seems like an easy job. Take a famous singer to fish and actually get fish. But, then, there’s a scream. And, suddenly, Jack is questioning what in the world Kingfisher Lodge is, because, apparently it’s not just a fishing lodge.
I don’t usually do sequels (this is a sequel to The River which also has Jack in it), but, I thought that it was very readable even if you didn’t read the first book. It was definitely twisty and turney for quite a bit of it, keeping me guessing, and, overall it was a thought provoking book by an author whose work I really enjoy.
You may like this book If you Liked: Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne, Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin, or A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
The Guide by Peter Heller
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Appâtée par les bons avis sur ce livre, je me suis plongée dedans. Après tout, je gardais un assez bon souvenir des deux livres que j’avais lu de cet auteur, et il s’avère que celui-ci est précisément la suite de La rivière, lu l’an dernier. Mais j’ai relu ma « critique » d’alors, et le « hic » que j’avais déjà relevé (et un peu oublié) perdure.
On a présenté ce livre comme une alliance parfaite entre thriller et nature writing. C’est un peu vrai. Mais moi, qui ai lu le livre volontiers, je ne veux pas tout critiquer et c’est un bon page-turner, je trouve qu’il faudrait surtout dire que c’est plutôt un mélange de romance et de roman d’aventures. Ce n’est pas une insulte, mais bon, il faut croire que c’est moins mon truc. Comme pour La rivière, la précision de la narration quant aux actes effectués par les protagonistes m’ennuie. Quand Pete Fromm parle dépêche à la mouche, il me passionne. Quand c’est Peter Heller, je baille. Et le suspense lié à l’affaire qui empoisonne le lodge pour pêcheurs fortunés m’a souvent paru peu crédible, voire carrément grotesque. En conséquence, le final, pétaradant et explosif m’a laissée de marbre.
Il y a trop de technique, de faits rapportés qui montrent la mécanique des protagonistes. Je pense que c’est caractéristique des romans d’aventures, mais c’est précisément ce qui agit sur moi comme soporifique.
Pour finir sur une note plus positive, la description de la nature est très réussie, et la culpabilité du héros, Jack, est bien rendue. On comprend ce qui l’anime. On apprécie son côté loyal et son goût pour les haïkus.
Ce sera tout pour moi.
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After I finished my 88th book of the year I discover it’s a sequel 😒.
I think though I just spoiled myself on the character who dies in the book before, so luckily if I read it I’ll be emotionally prepared.
Frustrating though. Oh well.
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My bookshelf
Hey, @beanifred <3 So, here's a big peak at my bookshelf (way too many books as I said)
Beginning with my treasures:
The "Real" Bob Steele and a man called "Brad" by Bob Nareau
The Photostory of "Battling Bob" Bob Steele by Mario DeMarco
2. The Columbo Collection
Just One More thing by Peter Falk
The Grassy Knoll by William Harrington (my enemy)
Murder by the Book by Steven Bochco
And now there's chaos:
3.
Psycho 1 & 2 and Night-World by Robert Bolch (Norwegian edition)
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
The Body Snatcher by Jack Finney
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Trash by Dorothy Allison (lesbian but at what cost)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Buddah of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (I also have American Gods but I cannot find it)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Complete Short Stories: Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
The Hunter by Richard Stark
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The System by John Burke (novelization)
Alien Nation by Alan Dean Foster (novelization)
Edge of the City by Fredrick Pohl (novelization)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Collector by John Fowels
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Norwegian edition)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (novelization)
Ninteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Wanderer by Sterling Hayden (the actor)
The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy & Anthony Shaffer (Novelization (?))
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
4.
Terror by Dan Simmons
Papillon 1 & 2 by Henri Charrière (Norwegian editions)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (book of all time)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Midnight Cowboy by John L. Herlihy
Shooting Midnight Cowboy by Glenn Frankel
Cape Fear by John D. McDonald (watch the movies)
The Bretheren by John Grisham (Norwegian edition)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorgood
Glitz by Elmore Leonard (Norwegian edition)
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler (the other novels are Farwell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Client by John Grisham (Norwegian edition)
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Legion (Exorcist 2) by William Peter Blatty
La Peste by Albert Camu (Norwegian edition)
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffery Cranor (not read)
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg
The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle
Local Hero by David Benedictus (novelization)
The Glass Cage by Colin Wilson
American Psycho by Brett E. Ellis
Fools Die by Mario Puzo (Norwegian edition)
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo (Norwegian edition)
5.
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (Norwegian edition) + Four different Game of Thrones books in Norwegian
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
The Betsy by Harold Robbins (Norwegian edition)
Aliens by Alan Dean Foster (novelization)
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Dune, The Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galxy by Douglas Adams
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
6.
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (short story collection that made me dislike short stories)
Mr. Monk in Trouble by Lee Goldberg (my enemy)
Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop by Lee Goldberg (I hate him)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Wolf
Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Maurice by E. M. Forster
The Case of the Gilded Lily by Erle Stanley Gardner (Norwegian edition)
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost by Erle Stanley Gardner (Norwegian edition)
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire by Derek Landy
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Norwegian edition)
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurt
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Norwegian edition)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey (bad)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
Killing Time by Della Van Hise (Star Trek Spinoff Spirk book)
Star Trek: Department of Temportal Investigations: Forgotten History by Christopher L. Bennet
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Missing by Una McCormack
Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic by Christopher L. Bennett
7. Stephen King Collection
Outsider
If it Bleeds
On Writing
Blaze
Carrie
The Stand
Hearts in Atlantis (Norwegian edition)
The Tommyknockers
Cujo
Thinner (Norwegian edition)
The Shining
Night Shift
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Norwegian edition)
Dreamcatcher
Doctor Sleep
Rose Madder
Pet Sematary
Christine
Salem's Lot
Dolores Claiborne (Norwegian edition)
The Bachman Books
The Institute
Insomnia
Misery
Finders Keepers
End of Watch
Firestarter
The Body
Needful Things (Norwegian edition)
Bag of Bones
8. Not pictured
A collection of Sherlock Holmes books
Many Hardy Boys books
Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
Some comic books
I believe this is approximately everything lol.
My dream is to have a small cozy rooms dedicated to the books I own. It won't happen any time soon.
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100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order
The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Under The Net by Iris Murdoch
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A Passage to India by EM Forster
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1984 by George Orwell
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Ulysses by James Joyce
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Watchmen by Alan Moore
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Money by Martin Amis
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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In 2023 I have read 68 books. Here they are:
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
The Devil and Dark Water by Stuart Turton
Orphans of the tide by Struan Murray
Ironside by Holly Black
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents by Terry Pratchett
Tin Princess by Philip Pullman
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Moonblood by Alastair MacNeill
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Seven Dials by Agatha Christie
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Fredrich Nietszche
The woman in white by Wilkie Collins
The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson
Destination Unkown by Agatha Christie
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie
The City of God by Augustine
Longarm and the Wendigo by Tabor Evans
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Ghost Drum by Susan Price
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
Man's search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'e
Flatland by E. A. Abbot
The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells
The Piano Teacher by J.Y.K. Lee
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Goblin Fruit by D.M. Chan
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Three-Body Problem by Cixian Liu
The Man who was Thursday by G.K.Chesterton
Didache
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Dune:Messiah by Frank Herbert
Tarzan of the Apes by E.R. Burroughs
Eric by Terry Pratchett
1913 by Florian Illies
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
Hour of the Wolf by A.J. Gallows
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Little House on the Prairie by L.l. Wilder
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in five parts by Douglas Adams
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Round the Moon by Jules Verne
American gods by Niel Gaiman
Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackery
The Master of the World by Jules Verne
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
A Season in Hell by Jack Higgins
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Price By A. Sokoloff
The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
The Bible as your GPS by K. Genis
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Une page au hasard (extrait 156)
"Cette nuit-là, il rêva de Wynn. Ils pêchaient ensemble sur une rivière qui semblait sortie d'un mythe et qui dessinait une tresse argentée entre deux pays : l'un calciné, terre noire traversée de tourbillons de cendres, troncs noirs réduits à l'état de couteaux carbonisés et encore fumants. Et sur l'autre rive, des bois verdoyants, une végétation luxuriante de fin d'été, et le long des berges, de hautes herbes et des épilobes roses, les branches des épicéas qui oscillaient, les oiseaux qui chantaient. La rivière formait un cordon brillant entre les deux et il pêchaient."
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Le Guide / Peter Heller. Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Céline Leroy. Actes Sud, 2023.
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Books Read in 2022: The Why
I said I wasn’t gonna do this but then it really annoyed me that I hadn’t while I was looking at the older ones, and SECRETLY it turns out I had the whole document on my computer so boom. End-of-year wrap-up but it’s midway through the next year.
We are now in year seven (?!) of looking back at my reading list for the year and answering the question, why did you read this particular book? I’m officially adding back in where/how I heard of it, too, because I also missed being able to easily see that stat.
You can see the full chronological list w/ larger cover images here, but these are split into groups by target readership age, plus nonfiction at the end. When it comes to 20th century teen books, sometimes it’s very hard to decide whether to count a title YA or middle grade, so I tried to just stick with the rule of “protagonists age 13 and under = middle grade.”
ADULT FICTION
(splitting into 3 sections because there are A Lot of covers here)
Very Sincerely Yours - Kerry Winfrey. 2021. Do we all know the story of how I took one look at the love interest described in the summary and said “Darren Criss??” (specifically the energy of him in that one music video?)
How I heard of it: a book blog
How Not To Die Alone - Richard Roper. 2019. I mean, it’s an eye-catching title! Upon pulling it out: “oh I’m here for sad introverted men. And the prospect of office romance.” And his job sounded interesting to read about.
How I heard of it: library
The Killer in the Carriage House - Sheila Connolly. 2019. The Secret Staircase - Sheila Connolly. 2021. The first audiobook of this cozy-mystery series was such a fun experience last year that I was excited to enjoy the next two (sadly there are no more, or I would have kept going)
Cross My Heart - Robin Lee Hatcher. 2019. Pulled this out of a Little Free Library like “HORSES??” (a romance featuring people who work with horses, specifically) and read it immediately.
Castaways - Brian Keene. 2009. The premise of “Survivor goes horribly wrong” was irresistible. I love jungle thrillers, I love horror, I don’t usually love cryptid horror but combined with the premise, I said yeah, okay.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Present Danger - Elizabeth Goddard. 2021. My rewatch of Blood & Treasure season 1 whipped me into a frenzy of both searching the keyword “treasure” in the library catalog and looking for 2nd chance romance. This one gave me both, PLUS my beloved western mountain setting!
Brood - Jackie Polzin. 2021. Small, cute, compact book to which I said, “chickens? Vignettes? Cool.”
How I heard of it: library, specifically because it was shelved beside the next book on this list.
A Rumored Fortune - Joanna Davidson Politano. 2018. See “Present Danger” rationale but swap mountain setting for a 19th century English estate (woo!) and more prominent focus on treasure.
How I heard of it: library
Made in the U.S.A. - Billie Letts. 2008. I really enjoyed two of her earlier ones; this cover caught my eye at the library so I spontaneously decided to take a trip back to her.
The River - Peter Heller. 2019. The Guide - Peter Heller. 2021. Watch The Amazing Race Season 33 –> find Dusty & Ryan’s friendship totally awesome –> Google for a book about two best friends, ideally in an outdoor setting –> find the book of your dreams in a Reddit post looking for exactly that. And I loved the characters so much that of COURSE I was going to read the sequel.
Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories - Lily King. 2021. The title got my attention and the first couple of stories intrigued me juuuust enough that I decided to read the whole thing instead of just skimming or reading a couple.
How I heard of it: library
The Bookshop of Yesterdays - Amy Meyerson. 2018. How could you NOT love the idea of a) a literary scavenger hunt and b) inheriting a bookshop??
How I heard of it: I think this one was on a book blog?
While You Sleep - Stephanie Merritt. 2019. Picked up the previous book at the library and this was next to it. What I could see of the spine looked cool, the cover looked awesome, and “ghost story on an isolated island off the coast of Scotland?? TAKE ME TO THERE.”
Before I Called You Mine - Nicole Deese. 2020. I was desperate for a sweet romance. I wasn’t sure if this would cut it, but when I looked it up on Goodreads, there was a review that said “if you don’t fall in love with Joshua you are not human,” and that was a very good endorsement indeed. not least because I was looking for a book specifically to cast Josh Groban in
How I heard of it: used book sale
Lake Season - Denise Hunter. 2019. Days of furious keywoord-googling produces: sweet romance prospect the second! (he’s a shy and reclusive romance novelist?? OK go) WITH a bonus dream setting/premise of “inherited B&B.”
Beautiful Girls: Stories - Beth Ann Bauman. 2002. The cover was very pretty – less for the image of legs than the lovely use of purple tones, which I suppose includes the knee high socks I now want – and I was hoping to relate to the women/girls in this collection. Bought 1.5 years ago, read now to see if I could get rid of it. (yes)
How I heard of it: used-book section of my magic local Barnes & Noble.
girlchild - Tupelo Hassman. 2012. I was intrigued by the cover, trailer park setting, vignette style of writing, and 3-generations-of-women cast of characters.
How I heard of it: used book sale
All That Really Matters - Nicole Deese. 2021. Her other book was so good that I looked up her backlist, which led me to one been intrigued by on a book blog but forgotten to write down; I genuinely had no idea it was this author! Mostly because: I love main characters who are Influencers, but I was also curious about her youth mentorship job.
The Middle of Somewhere - Sonja Yoerg. 2015. Summertime = hiking inspiration time! (she’s on the Pacific Crest Trail)
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Thief of Hearts - Tess Gerritsen. 1995. Blood & Treasure obsession round 2 (for season 2) leads to me seeking an audiobook with a British female narrator whose voice will remind me of Lexi’s. And then I find one from an author I love, about a CAT BURGLAR?? Serendipity! So even though their nationalities are reversed, “whatever, this is a Danny-and-Lexi story now in my head.”
How I heard of it: Libby
In Their Footsteps - Tess Gerritsen. 1994. And then I accidentally fell in love with Jordan Tavistock so much that I went back to the first book in the duology to get more of him.
How I heard of it: Libby
Never Say Die - Tess Gerritsen. 1992. But in between those books, I was like, that is WILD, I can’t believe I’m finding 90s mass market romance so fun?? so I picked up a bonus (in print this time) because this one kind of looked like my other OTP Of The Summer, Claire/Owen, since it was an ex-soldier + headstrong woman who Doesn’t Need His Help.
How I heard of it: Libby
Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes - Alexa Martin. 2021. Raise your hand if you LOVE the idea of best friends moving in together in adulthood even though one of them has a kid.
How I heard of it: a book blog
The Summer List - Amy Mason Doan. 2018. SO many reasons: the beautiful cover and title, best friends reuniting in adulthood after 15 years apart, the idea of scavenger hunts, the northern California setting...
How I heard of it: oh no, can’t remember! I think Goodreads?
The Lake Season - Hannah McKinnon. 2015. The beautiful summery cover, mostly. I wanted in on a similar setting after loving the above.
How I heard of it: Goodreads (upon looking up Lake Season in the search bar)
What You Wish For - Katherine Center. 2020. I’ve loved several of hers and though I was definitely Wary about this one’s romance, then I got briefly obsessed with Adam Scott and was like, oh, I could imagine HIM playing this character in a still-appealing way, given the difference between his personalities on Parks & Rec vs. Severance! (facts: even picturing Scott, I still hated Duncan)
How I heard of it: Goodreads
A Dazzle of Diamonds - Liz Johnson. 2020. Was once again in the mood for a sweet romance and I loved the other two in this series / had always wanted to read this one. Guaranteed good time.
How I heard of it: Goodreads, but introduced to the series originally on a book blog
Tailspin - Elizabeth Goddard. 2016. Blood & Treasure got me to a place of “I need multiple life-threatening/life-saving action scenes STAT!” and then my brain remembered that when I was last here in January, I’d learned that Goddard had one billion options for me. This one seemed closest to my needs from what the library had. Cookie-cutter mass market romance is very useful sometimes.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
We Went to the Woods - Caitlin Dolan-Leach. 2019. It sounded like an American version of my beloved The Shadow Year. Friends deciding to try group homesteading for self-sufficiency? BRING IT.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Rizzoli & Isles #13: Listen To Me - Tess Gerritsen. 2022. Read & loved all the other books in this series.
The Map That Leads To You - Joseph Monninger. 2017. I’ve read several of his YA novels, and then a Reddit post described it as some of the most beautiful writing they’d ever encountered. Plus, it is very romantic to think of a man following his grandfather’s leatherbound travel journal.
The Vines - Shelley Nolden. 2021. Came up on my Goodreads feed; I clicked on the link to her research about North Brother Island with all its crumbling abandoned structures, and immediately said TRANSPORT ME HERE FICTIONALLY.
An Afternoon Walk - Dorothy Eden. 1971. The cover pulled me in and the first chapter – which details the cover image as they explore the grounds of a nearby estate and peek at the abandoned house – sold me entirely.
How I heard of it: used book sale
The Lost Island - Preston & Child. 2014. Gideon's Sword - Preston & Child. 2011. Looking for more audiobooks that at least vaguely fit my Danny/Lexi/adventure casting, the “treasure” keyword pinged the Lost Island. It didn’t work for Lexi, but I could totally picture Matt Barr as Gideon and the audiobook was really good, so I went back to the beginning. (I had intended to listen to the whole 5-book series, but I got Distracted)
How I heard of it: Libby
Fading Starlight - Kathryn Cushman. 2016. Beautiful cover + fixing up a coastal house, I’m there.
How I heard of it: used book sale
Hidden Treasures - Michelle Adams. 2021. Needed an audiobook, did a keyword search for “treasure” on Libby this time and was drawn in by that, the cover, the prospect of cleaning out a hoarder’s house, and the 2nd chance romance (hey there Danny/Lexi).
The More I See Of Men - Lynn Hall. 1992. Reading all her books is #1 on my literary bucket list. I’ve long been intrigued by this one ever since Lynn referenced it in an interview, so I finally bit the bullet and bought a copy when I found one for $5 (and, in a shocking turn of events, actually read it immediately).
Small Game - Blair Braverman. 2022. Does everyone in the world know yet how I fooled myself into believing this would be like the TV show Siberia??
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts - Kate Racculia. 2019. Small Game failed me, so I desperately went fishing on my TBR for a pick-me-up and decided a treasure / scavenger hunt with riddles would be a good consolation prize.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
The Dragon Keeper - Mindy Mejia. 2012. I liked a previous book of hers and loved the idea of a zookeeper character, with a focus on her zoo charge. Bought cheap at a book sale since library didn’t have it, and read it ASAP to send it back out the door.
A Shroud of Leaves - Rebecca Alexander. 2019. A Baby's Bones - Rebecca Alexander. 2018. The cover and title pulled me in, not least because season 1 of Bedlam ended on a cliffhanger that made me desperate to read a proper British crime novel about missing girls. Who knew I would find one at the dollar store?? Anyway, the book was so awesome that I went back to the first one at the library ASAP.
In A Cottage In A Wood - Cass Green. 2017. Riding high on British thrillers, this was for sale at the library and I jumped on it because “you randomly inherit a house” is always a plot favorite. Bonus points if it’s apparently creepy.
The Doll's House - M. J. Arlidge. 2015. Still on the British thriller theme of missing girls, this time looking for an audiobook -- and I’m always extra-intrigued by The Collector-type scenarios. (I was not aware it was part of a series until after I started)
How I heard of it: Libby
Vanishing Edge - Claire Kells. 2021. An Unforgiving Place - Claire Kells. 2022. Hiking inspiration (national parks) AND an investigative mystery? The first one was so good that I devoured the sequel as soon as it was available.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
The Escape Room - Megan Goldin. 2019. Found a cheap audiobook at a library sale, am down for escape room thrillers
How I heard of it: used book sale
Lease on Love - Falon Ballard. 2022. It popped up on the library homepage and immediately looked like it might be one of those sweet romances (or at least have the sweet love interest) I’ve been craving. Plus real estate porn from getting to live in a brownstone for practically nothing. (I didn’t factor in there being actual porn, but regrettably...)
The Cottage on Wildflower Lane - Liz Davies. 2020. Available audiobook, cute cover, sweet romance, soothing British narrator.
How I heard of it: Libby
Three Story House - Courtney Miller Santo. 2014. Who am I to turn down stories about women fixing up old houses??
How I heard of it: library
The Night She Disappeared - Lisa Jewell. 2021. Anyway, back to British thrillers about missing girls. (But also, I know this is a popular author, and the phrase “abandoned mansion” IMMEDIATELY sold me as the one to start on from her)
How I heard of it: Libby, I think?
Dead Lake - Darcy Coates. 2020. The Folsom Ghosts was actually the book that caught my eye on the library website; it looked like everything I like in horror. When I got to the library and found a whole SHELF of identically appealing books, I checked out half a dozen and intended to read them all, but randomly started here. And then I just...didn’t read any others, it was too good.
Check Me Out - Becca Wilhite. 2018. Bought at a book sale a while ago, because G-rated romance featuring a librarian.
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. 1990. Reread via the new full cast audiobook (listened on Libby), which was the dream/what I wanted the first time around in 2020.
(I forgot to include a pic of this one, whoops)
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CATEGORY TWO: YOUNG ADULT
(again in two parts)
99 Lies - Rachel Vincent. 2018. Sequel to (more accurately “the second half of”) a fantastic thriller I read in December.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Eden Summer - Liz Flanagan. 2016. Bought cheap at a book sale because cool title and cover, plus curiosity about what had happened to her missing best friend.
Spellbook of the Lost and Found - Moira Fowley-Doyle. 2017. In search of an available audiobook, I thought the Irish-accented narrators would be cool, not least because I had looked with interest at this beautiful cover for years at the library and only been put off by the “fantasy” sticker on the spine. This time I actually read the summary, and it sounded a lot more realistic.
The Runaway's Diary - Marilyn Harris. 1971. Intrigued by the publication year + dog + journal format. First came across it on Goodreads in a “what’s that book?” post; was in the mood to order from Interlibrary Loan.
The Rules - Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie. 2015. Love me a creative serial killer Spooky Book in February.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Children of the River - Linda Crewe. 1989. Reminded of its existence by Speaking For Ourselves and was frankly stunned to see the library still had a 90s copy in circulation, so I took the opportunity to reread a book I’d liked in high school.
In Summer Light - Zibby Oneal. 1985. Read about it in Speaking For Ourselves, Too; was intrigued by the setting and the focus on art. Lucked out this year finding a copy for sale at the library.
The Golden Window - Ernie Rydberg. 1956. Tripped over it in an antiquarian bookstore on clearance; it seemed like a very darling, nostalgic look at college.
Pretty Bad Things - C.J. Skuse. 2010. Cover model looked like Melissa Benoist and I was under the impression (until I started) that the twins were both girls. Read now because I could -- after 2 years on my TBR I saw the audiobook on Libby (the library doesn’t have a print version).
How I heard of it: Goodreads
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson. 2020 (US edition). Good Girl, Bad Blood - Holly Jackson. 2021. As Good As Dead - Holly Jackson. 2022. I finally succumbed to the hype, mostly for the promise of some unusual formatting / mixed media, and had such a good time that I finished the trilogy in quick succession.
How I heard of it: book blogs
The Mall - Megan McCafferty. 2020. Fun cover design/colors + I love malls. And the 90s.
How I heard of it: a book blog
What Waits in the Water - Kieran Scott. 2017. Picked up in a Little Free Library & read immediately because I liked her previous What Waits book.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Three Desperate Days - Hope Dahle Jordan. 1962. Vintage teen thriller! With a road trip twist.
How I heard of it: used book sale
Lies Like Wildfire - Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. 2021. Wildfire + teen thriller/suspense/mystery = sold.
How I heard of it: library
There You'll Find Me - Jenny B. Jones. 2011. Loved the movie (Finding You), wanted to immediately revisit it in book form.
How I heard of it: I do remember it from the library when it was new
Sisters In Sanity - Gayle Forman. 2007. I like this author and was surprised to see the library had such an old book (old by the library’s standards, not mine). Plus I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of middle-of-nowhere reform camps for uncontrollable teens, ever since I read an article about one in a teen magazine when I was a teen -- not the one this author apparently wrote before writing her book, but very similar.
How I heard of it: library
The Dead House - Dawn Kurtagich. 2015. + Dead House: Naida (not pictured) I was at the library to pick up the book below, when I saw this next to it with a more alluring title/cover/premise and – oh, is that COOL MIXED-MEDIA FORMATTING?? Sold! (then I read the sequel novella on Libby because I Just Can’t Get Enough.)
And The Trees Crept In - Dawn Kurtagich. 2016. Read a post about it on r/whatsthatbook; it sounded so awesomely spooky that I wanted to read it even after being spoiled on the ending.
The Summer of Chasing Mermaids - Sarah Ockler. 2015. Beautiful cover/cover model (the girl, at least); between that and the setting it seemed like a perfect summer read.
How I heard of it: Library
The Evolution of Claire - Tess Sharpe. 2018. In which after losing my mind about Jurassic World: Dominion, I learn that there is officially licensed YA fanfic about Claire Dearing and immediately pterodactyl-screech “GIVE IT 2 ME!”
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Never Coming Home - Kate Williams. 2022. I will apparently read infinity versions of social media influencers being lured to deserted tropical islands for creative and vengeful Murder Reasons.
How I heard of it: library
Hold Still - Nina LaCour. 2009. Continuing last year’s quest to finish reading her YA novels, I decided I wanted to go back and reread this one before my last new one, mostly because there was an audiobook version this time.
How I heard of it: library
Gap Life - John Coy. 2016. Always interested in post-high-school paths that aren’t college.
How I heard of it: library
Property of the State - Bill Cameron. 2016. Always interested in foster-kid stories.
How I heard of it: library
Damselfly - Chandra Prasad. 2018. *New York “Beyonce?” face* MIXED GENDER LORD OF THE FLIES??? (one of the few assigned classics I genuinely enjoyed in high school)
How I heard of it: library
We Are Okay - Nina LaCour. 2017. Working my way through all her books; specifically interested in the idea of best friends reuniting after months of silence (as a person who remained solitary and had minimal contact with her own best friend during the first semester of college).
Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America [stories] - ed. Nora Shalway Carpenter. 2020. Interested on sight in the promised settings of small/rural towns.
How I heard of it: Barnes & Noble
Secret Scribbled Notebooks - Joanne Horniman. 2004. The most alluring title in the history of ever. I wanted a peek at what she scribbled in the notebooks, perhaps for notebook-using inspiration of my own.
How I heard of it: OpenLibrary
Meet The Sky - McCall Hoyle. 2018. Natural disaster survival + lost horse?? Two of my favorite things.
How I heard of it: library
Solace of the Road - Siobhan Dowd. 2009. Reread of a book I didn’t remember well because available audiobook + pleasing Irish narrator I figured would lull me to sleep.
How I heard of it: library
This Is Our Story - Ashley Elston. 2016. I keep wanting to read one of hers, and murder mysteries are always fun.
How I heard of it: library
The Tenth Girl - Sara Faring. 2019. IT LOOKED SO SPOOK (plus how often do you find a story set in Patagonia?)
How I heard of it: Barnes & Noble
The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton - Richard Fifeld. 2020. Mostly the pretty colors in the cover (see: The Mall) and irresistibly cool title; a little bit because “small town in Montana” setting.
How I heard of it: library
Holly Jolly Summer - Tiffany Stewart. 2018. Bought cheap because cute cover + working at a theme park?? As unusual a theme for YA as the idea of a Christmas-themed town. (Read now because I needed a summery read to match the Indian summer weather.)
How I heard of it: the used book section of my Barnes & Noble
Full Flight - Ashley Schumacher. 2022. Loved her first book, ready to be heart-hurt again.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Not In The Script - Amy Finnegan. 2014. Randomly browsing at the library and saw...cute romance on a TV show set? I love that.
Drop-Out - Jeannette Eyerly. 1963. Been meaning to read one of hers, this one was on OpenLibrary and I always like mid-century stories about teens getting (or in this case trying to get) married.
How I heard of it: yet another Speaking For Ourselves find. :)
Out of Reach - Carrie Arcos. 2012. Bought on BookOutlet because I thought it was on my TBR (and it wasn’t at my local library), but it wasn’t there when I looked?? Maybe it was at one point and I deleted it. Anyway, still read it because kind of interested in the story of a girl looking for her runaway drug-addict brother on the streets. Also, pretty cover.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
The Distance Between Lost and Found - Kathryn Holmes. 2015. It’s not the right time of year for hiking inspiration, but I didn’t hike much this year after July anyway so I randomly decided I wanted to read about it regardless.
How I heard of it: library
I Am Princess X - Cherie Priest. 2015. Read a post about it on r/whatsthatbook and was intrigued by: the mystery premise, best friends, and curiosity about how the graphic novel panels would be incorporated.
This Is Not A Love Letter - Kim Purcell. 2018. Loved her first book, have long been interested in the setting of this one while leery of a lecture on racism, but to be honest? I can’t say why without spoilers, but the reason I finally read it is that I vaguely remember hearing how this one ended, and I needed a fictional way to process a similar scenario I’d just heard in celebrity news.
How I heard of it: library
Rain Is Not My Indian Name - Cynthia Leitich Smith. 2001. I’ve known about this semi-classic for a while and have been vaguely interested in reading it as an early Native American #OwnVoices; someone bought it out from under me at a book sale, but luckily Libby had an audiobook!
(side note: I am stubbornly keeping this in YA where it was originally shelved at the library, even if they’ve kicked it to middle grade now. Which is fair since it’s short and she’s 14, the Border Age, but I really dislike the more childish new cover image.)
How I heard of it: I don’t actually remember! I may have seen it at the library back in the day, or maybe I read about it in a book about teen books.
All American Boys - Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. 2015. I don’t read a lot about racism or social (in)justice, but something about this one seemed like it would be unusually accessible. I found a copy in a little free library over the summer, finally remembered I had it while cleaning out the car, and just randomly read it.
How I heard of it: Half Price Books
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CATEGORY THREE: CHILDREN’S/MIDDLE GRADE
Ghetto Cowboy - G. Neri. 2011. I’ve always been vaguely interested because of the horse aspect, but I finally made the effort in order to have an idea of the story before watching the movie based on it.
How I heard of it: library
The Tiny Mansion - Keir Graff. 2020. I put ‘mansion’ into the library catalog keywords because of my general interest in those kinds of settings, but I was equally thrilled to find something unique: a middle grade story about a tiny house?? In a forest setting?? YEAH
How I heard of it: library
Bearstone - Will Hobbs. 1989. Reread of a middle school favorite when I saw there was an audiobook.
The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli. 1949. Reread of a middle school assignment I’d forgotten I ever read (and barely remembered) when I saw there was an audiobook.
Operation Red Jericho - Joshua Mowll. 2005. Operation Typhoon Shore - Joshua Mowll. 2006. Operation Storm City - Joshua Mowll. 2008.
I read about the first book on r/whatsthatbook and it sounded like it had the coolest art design ever. It did. Even though I didn’t love the actual stories, I had to finish the trilogy just so I had enough context to keep fully enjoying it.
The Secret of Blandford Hall - Margaret Crary. 1963. It was mostly the map of the 4-acre estate in the front that sold me on this quick-n-easy vintage kids’ mystery, tbh. Literally, sold; I paid $4 since library didn’t have it.
How I heard of it: antique store
Bonny's Boy Returns - F.E. Rechnitzer. 1953. Sequel to a dog book I loved.
How I heard of it: bookfinder.com
Breathing Room - Marsha Hayles. 2012. I haven’t read a lot of books about patients this young being treated for tuberculosis in sanitariums. The local MN setting doubled my interest in this one.
How I heard of it: library
You May Already Be A Winner - Ann Dee Ellis. 2017. Bought for $1 mostly due to the very cute cover + trailer park setting.
How I heard of it: dollar store
Maisie Lockwood Adventures #1: Off the Grid - Tess Sharpe. 2022. In which I lose my mind about the found family in Jurassic World: Dominion, go home intending to google for middle grade novels with this exact family dynamic, learn that licensed fanfiction about this actual family already exists, and immediately pterodactyl-screech “GIVE IT 2 ME!”
How I heard of it: Goodreads
A Patron Saint for Junior Bridesmaids - Shelley Tougas. 2016. Bought cheap because cute cover and title with a local setting; I was curious how she would navigate bridesmaid duties as a 12-year-old.
How I heard of it: used book section of my Barnes & Noble
Water Balloon - Audrey Vernick. 2011. 99% because of the summery cover, 1% because she sounded relatable in being left behind by her friends for not maturing fast enough.
How I heard of it: a book blog
Meant to Be - Jo Knowles. 2022. Sequel to a book I didn’t love, but liked enough to want the full story.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
Birdie's Billions - Edith Cohn. 2021. Fantasizing about what I’d do if I found a bunch of money is second only to talking about books in terms of my favorite hobbies. A Goodreads friend read this and I literally went to the library the next day to check it out so I could have full context for deciding what I would do as her.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
All The Things You Are - Courtney Sheinmel. 2011. Found for $1 -- I like this author so I’ll give most any standalone she writes a shot.
How I heard of it: Goodreads
The Echo Park Castaways - M.G. Hennessey. 2019. Cool cover + foster kids.
How I heard of it: used book sale
When I Hit the Road - Nancy J. Cavanaugh. 2020. I love road trip books!
How I heard of it: Goodreads
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CATEGORY FOUR: NONFICTION
Living Simply: A Teen Guide to Minimalism - Sally McGraw. 2019. It was slender and brightly colored and I thought it would be fun to fantasize for a bit that I was a teen again, with only one bedroom’s worth of possessions to sort.
How I heard of it: library
Deep in the Heart of Texas: Reflections of Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders - Suzette, Stephanie and Sheri Scholz. 1991.
Obsession with the DCC reality show = time to look for books about cheerleaders’ time there. There didn’t seem to be any from the modern era, so this was as close as I could get to actually hearing about the practices, appearances, etc. (also, someone said it was soapy/scandalous)
How I heard of it: googling keywords
All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House - David Giffels. 2008.
I will read any memoir you have about fixing up a big ol’ historic house.
How I heard of it: library
Speaking For Ourselves - ed. David Gallo. 1990. Loved the second volume when I read it last year, finally realized I could get this one through Interlibrary Loan as well. Tell me about prolific authors of teen books and their work from my favorite era of teen lit!
How I heard of it: OpenLibrary
Things I Should Have Said - Jamie Lynn Spears. 2022. Honestly, I’ve always found her more appealing than her sister, and the world’s Absurd Hatred of this book for daring to exist made me extra-curious about it (and desirous of helping its Goodreads rating), so reading it ASAP became a priority.
How I heard of it: ONTD
Everybody Fights: So Why Not Get Better at It? - Kim & Penn Holderness. 2021. See “teams I fell in love with on The Amazing Race.” I loved their podcasts about it so I started watching their YouTube videos, found out about this audiobook and was like, “A PODCAST I CAN COUNT ON MY READING LIST??”
How I heard of it: YouTube
UnSweetined - Jodie Sweetin. 2009. I re-fell in love with her on Beyond the Edge, needed more of her ASAP and then vaguely remembered she had written a memoir.
How I heard of it: just...random celebrity news sites back in the day before I was on ONTD regularly
We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers - ed. Marisa Crawford & Megan Milks. 2021.
I was also the BSC!
How I heard of it: Goodreads
I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are - Rachel Bloom. 2020. It was at the library and I was juuuust curious enough to check for some Crazy Ex-Girlfriend stories.
How I heard of it: ONTD
Made From Scratch: Discovering the Simple Pleasures of a Handmade Life - Jenna Woginrich. 2008. I was browsing through old reading lists and remembered how much I liked this one. I wanted to read one of her more recent memoirs, and was bummed to find the library didn’t have any of them – but they still had this one! So I checked it out intending to just skim through it, and ended up rereading cover to cover because fascinating info.
How I heard of it: library
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life With 600 Rescue Animals - Laurie Zaleski. 2021. Rescue animals!!! At an animal rescue!
How I heard of it: Goodreads (but my dad independently recommended it as well; both my parents liked it actually)
The Horseman's Companion - Margaret Cabell Self. 1949. An old horse book with a cover illustrated by Wesley Dennis, written in an appealing writing style (basically storytelling)? SOLD.
How I heard of it: used book sale
O.C. Undercover - Brittany Kent. 2004. I love The O.C. and I will read any ridiculous books you have about it.
How I heard of it: used book sale
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And that’s it; hope you have enjoyed this special 6-months-late edition of the traditional post.
#peek into the mind of a mood reader!#why i read#when ya don't feel like reading books sometimes you talk about books a lot instead
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Mystery/Thriller Monday
Alex Carter is a wildlife biologist who is studying wolverines in Montana Alex is threatened by locals who want to force her off the land, but she's not easily dissuaded. And then when reviewing her trail cameras she sees a man who is very injured and wandering through the woods. She goes to law enforcement and they don’t really seem worried. Then… all of a sudden, she’s the prey. Can she stay one step ahead of it, of them?
It’s a little bit of a mystery, a lot of survival (I was flashing back to my youth and reading Hatchet for the first time by Gary Paulsen). And, it’s the first in a series too, with the fourth book coming out next March.
You may like this book If you Liked: The Guide by Peter Heller, Endangered by Pamela Beason, or Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box
A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
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Hi! I'm writing a fic about a Jewish vampire (born in Judeah & currently living in Jerusalem) which takes place during the Crusades. The Crusades themselved are the background of the fic. So I'm wondering if you have any information/resources on how the Jewish population of the Kindom of Jerusalem/Palestine viewed the Crusades and the repeated invasion by either Christians and Muslims during that time. A lot of the information I found is very Christian vs Muslim centric and I'd like to have a Jewish perspective on the conflict.
Oh boy, do I ever. So many, in fact, that I have sorted them into several categories, and hope that at least some will be useful. Nota bene that you will need some kind of academic credentials to access the full text of some/most of these: there are some open-source pdfs and Google books, but yes, academia will be academia, alas. You may also have to do some investigation to pick out tidbits that are most relevant, but:
Jews, the First Crusade, Memories, and Martyrdom
Chazan, Robert. 'The Facticity of Medieval Narrative: A Case Study of the Hebrew First Crusade Narratives', AJS Review 16 (1991), 31-56.
Cohen, Jeremy. Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Shagrir, Iris, and Netta Amir. 'The Persecution of the Jews in the First Crusade: Liturgy, Memory, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture', Speculum 92 (2017), 405-28.
Shepkaru, Shmuel. 'The Preaching of the First Crusade and the Persecutions of the Jews,' Medieval Encounters 18 (2012), 93-135.
Jewish Daily Life in Eleventh/Twelfth-Century Palestine
Bareket, Elinoar. 'Personal Adversities of Jews during the Period of the Fatimid Wars in Eleventh Century Palestine', War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries (1997), pp. 153-62.
Boehm, Barbara Drake, and Melanie Holcomb. Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016)
Dulska, Anna Katarzyna. 'Abrahamic Coexistence in the Twelfth-Century Middle East? Jews Among Christians and Muslims in a Travel Account by a Navarrese Jew, Benjamin of Tudela', Journal of Beliefs & Values 38 (2017), 257-66.
Gil, Moshe. 'The Jewish Quarters of Jerusalem (AD 638-1099) According to Cairo Geniza Documents and Other Sources', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41 (1982), 261-78.
Shagrir, Iris. 'The Guide of MS Beinecke 481.77 and the Intertwining of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem', Crusades 10 (2016), 11-32.
Talmon-Heller, Daniella, and Miriam Frenkel. 'Religious Innovation under Fatimid Rule: Jewish and Muslim Rites in Eleventh-Century Jerusalem', Medieval Encounters 25 (2019), 203-26.
Medieval Jewish Magic (and Vampires!)
Bohak, Gideon. 'Jewish Magic in the Middle Ages', in The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 268-300.
Chajes, Jeffrey Howard. 'Rabbis and Their (In) Famous Magic: Classical Foundations, Medieval and Early Modern Reverberations', Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition (2011), 58-79.
Dan, Peter. 'How Vampires Became Jewish', Studia Hebraica (2009), 417-29.
Epstein, Saul, and Sara Libby Robinson. 'The Soul, Evil Spirits, and the Undead: Vampires, Death, and Burial in Jewish Folklore and Law', Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 1 (2012), 232-51.
Idel, Moishe. 'On Judaism, Jewish Mysticism and Magic', in Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium, ed. Peter Schäfer and Hans Kippenberg (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp. 195-214.
Matteoni, Francesca. 'The Jew, the Blood and the Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe', Folklore 119 (2008), 182-200.
Patai, Raphael. The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)
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Self-Help Books
Productivity
Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It by Richard Koch
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Little Black Book by Otegha Uwagba
Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day by Holly Reisem Hanna
Write it Down and Make It Happen
The 12 Week Year
The 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
How to Begin by Michael Bungay Stainer
Physical Health
WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source by Alisa Vitti
Mental Health
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook
The Inner Child Workbook by Cathryn Taylor
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves by Curt Thompson
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
ADHD
You Mean I'm Not Stupid, Lazy, or Crazy?! A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo
Women with Attention-Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life by Sari Salden
What the ADHD Brain Wants—and Why by Dr. Ellen Littman (pdf)
Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD That Restores Attention, Minimizes Hyperactivity, and Helps Eliminate Drug Side Effects by Dr. James Greenblatt
* Living with ADHD: Simple Exercises to Change Your Daily Life by Thom Hartmann
Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning by Phil Boster
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg
Screwed Up Somehow But Not Stupid, Life with a Learning Disability by Peter Flom
Trauma
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety by Deb A. Dana
Taming Your Outer Child: Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment by Susan Anderson
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve by Stanley Rosenberg
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsey Gibson
@complextraumarecovery bookshelf
Healing Developmental Trauma by Lawrence Heller
Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine
The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection by Deb Dana
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use it for Good by Kimberly Ann Johnson
Trauma and Memory by Peter Levine
Stephen Porges work
Nurturing Resilience by Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell
Relationships
Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood
Break Your Addiction to a Person by Howard Halpern
Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships by Sudan Peabody
Journey from Abandonment to Healing by Susan Anderson
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships by Patrick Carnes
The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships by Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment by Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Love is a Choice: The Definitive Book on Letting Go of Unhealthy Relationships by Thomas Hemfelt
Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment by Bethany Saltman
Gaslighting by Stephanie Sarkis
Boundaries by Anne Katherine
Models by Mark Manson
Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Tawwab
Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft
I Want This to Work by Elizabeth Earnshaw
The Adult Psychotherapy Homework Planner
Me, You, Us: A Book to Fill Out Together by Lisa Currie
The Will to Change by bell hooks
Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendricks
Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
Games People Play by Eric Berne
The Chemistry Between Us by Larry Young
Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
Cats Don’t Chase Dogs by Kara King
Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
No More Assholes by Chantal Heide
Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer
The Power of the Pussy by Kara King
Why Men Behave Badly by David Buss
Safe People by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
The Deep Life
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony De Mello
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
Authenticity
The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are by Alicia Menendez
I Thought It Was Just Me (but It Isn’t) by Brené Brown
Career
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
How Women Rise by Sally Hegelsen
Own It: The Power of Women at Work by Sallie Krawcheck
No-Fail Communication by Michael Hyatt
Leadership on the Line by Ronald Heifetz
Purple Cow
Dream Manager
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Quantum Success
Influencer
Decide
Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office
Switchers by Dawn Graham
The Seven Minute Productivity Solution by John Brando
Entry Level Boss by Alexa Shoen
Mindfulness
How to Breathe: 25 Simple Practices for Calm, Joy, and Resilience by Ashley Neese
Money
Unfuck Your Finances by Melissa Browne
Broke Millenial
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Clever Girl Finance
We Should All Be Millionaires
Parenting
Expecting Better by Emily Oster
Cribsheet by Emily Oster
The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years by Emily Oster
Grief
The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift by Steve Leder
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All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls”
Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)
1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 140. Inferno by Dante
141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 240. Quattrocento by James Mckean
241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 270. Selected Hotels of Europe
271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 298. Stuart Little by E. B. White 299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields 320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Monsters: A Companion (Genre Fiction and Film Companions), edited by Simon Bacon, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2020. Info: peterlang.com.
What are Monsters? Monsters are everywhere, from cyberbullies online to vampires onscreen: the twenty-first century is a monstrous age. The root of the word «monster» means «omen» or «warning», and if monsters frighten us, it’s because they are here to warn us about something amiss in ourselves and in our society. Humanity has given birth to these monsters, and they grow and change with us, carrying the scars of their birth with them. This collection of original and accessible essays looks at a variety of contemporary monsters from literature, film, television, music and the internet within their respective historical and cultural contexts. Beginning with a critical introduction that explores the concept of the monster in the work of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Jack Halberstam, Elaine Showalter and more, the book takes a broad approach to the monster, including not only classic slasher films, serial killers (Bates Motel), the living dead (Game of Thrones) and aliens (District 9), but also hyper-contemporary examples like clones (Orphan Black), cyberbullies (Cyberbully), viral outbreaks (The Strain) and celebrities (Lady Gaga). Gender and culture are especially emphasized in the volume, with essays on the role of gender and sexuality in defining the monster (AHS Apocalypse) and global monsters (Cleverman, La Llorona). This compact guide to the monster in contemporary culture will be useful to teachers, students and fans looking to expand their understanding of this important cultural figure.
Contents: Acknowledgements Foreword. Culture’s Monters: Monster Marks (Lindquist 2018) – Sherry C.M. Lindquist Introduction – Simon Bacon PART I Home Madness: The Babadook (Kent, 2014) – Monsters of Mental Illness – Angela M. Smith Domestic Abuse: The Invisible Man (Whannell, 2020) – Domestic Monsters – Simon Bacon Paedophilia: The Nightingale (Kent, 2018) – Monsters of Abuse – Phil Fitzsimmons Immigrants: The Lure (Smoczyñska, 2015) – Monstrous Outsiders – Agnieszka Kotwasinìska PART II Society The Mask: Slasher Cinema (1978–1998) – Teaching the Monster – John Edgar Browning The Cyberbully: Cyberbully (Binamé, 2011) – Monsters of Cyberspace – Lauren Rosewarne Lady Gaga: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (1986–present) – Monsters of Celebrity – Anthony Curtis Adler The Slit-Mouthed Woman: Carved (Shiraishi, 2007) – Monsters of Urban Legend – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Melmoth: Melmoth (Perry, 2018) – Monsters of War – W. Scott Poole PART III Cultural Intersections Phi Krasue: Inhuman Kiss (Mongkolsiri, 2019) – Thai Monsters – Benjamin Baumann La habitación del desahogo (2012) – Mexican Monsters – Inés Ordiz Baba Yaga: Hellboy (Mignola, 1997–2004) – Russian Monsters – Gail de Vos Deumo: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg, 1984) – Monsters of Colonialism – Partha Mitter The Hairies: Cleverman (Griffen, 2016–2017) – Aboriginal Monsters – Yasmine Musharbash PART IV Gender Satan: The Witch (Eggers, 2015) – Patriarchal Monsters – Eddie Falvey Warlocks: AHS Apocalypse (Murphy and Falchuk, 2011–present) – Monsters of Masculinity – Emily Brick She-Wolves: When Animals Dream (Arnby, 2014) – Monsters of Femininity – Craig Ian Mann Serial Killers: Bates Motel (Ehrin, 2013–2017) – The Queer Monster – Daniel Sheppard The Skeleton: Game of Thrones (Benioff, 2011–2019) – Monsters of Death – Murray Leeder PART V Futures Clones: Orphan Black (Manson and Fawcett, 2013–2017) – Monsters of Reproduction – Leah Richards The Master: The Strain (del Toro and Hogan, 2014–2017) – Monsters of Contagion – Dahlia Schweitzer The Ecomonster: Megalohydrothalassophobia (Abhorrence, 2018) – Monsters of the Anthropocene – Carl H. Sederholm Aliens: District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009) – Monsters of Hybridity – Gerry Canavan Zombie: The Girl with All the Gifts (Carey, 2014) – Posthuman Monsters – Elana Gomel Afterword: Becoming Monstrous and the Monster Becoming: Hannibal (Fuller: 2013–2015) – Patricia MacCormack Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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