skein's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:09:34 -0700 60 skein's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story]]> 15654 The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle.]]> 548 Ann Rule 0451203267 skein 0 year-2025, non-fiction, dnf DNF fifty pages in.]]> 4.13 1980 The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
author: Ann Rule
name: skein
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1980
rating: 0
read at: 2025/04/23
date added: 2025/04/23
shelves: year-2025, non-fiction, dnf
review:
Ann Rule seems a very, very unpleasant person and i'm not at all surprised she'd work for a suicide-prevention hotline.
DNF fifty pages in.
]]> The Day of the Triffids 530965
The triffids are grotesque and dangerous plants, over seven feet tall, originally cultivated for their yield of high-grade oil. So long as conditions give the mastery to their human directors, they are a valuable asset to mankind. But when a sudden universal disaster turns those conditions upside down, then the triffids, seizing their opportunity, become an active and dreadful menace.

The story of what happens is told here by one of the few people lucky enough to escape the disaster.]]> 228 John Wyndham 0812967127 skein 0 currently-reading, year-2025 4.01 1951 The Day of the Triffids
author: John Wyndham
name: skein
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1951
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/21
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]]> <![CDATA[No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us]]> 33786693 No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths: That if things were bad enough, victims would just leave; that a violent person cannot become nonviolent; that shelter is an adequate response; that violence inside the home is separate from other forms of violence like mass shootings, gang violence, and sexual assault. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, Snyder explores not only the dark corners of private violence, but also its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it.]]> 320 Rachel Louise Snyder skein 0 currently-reading 4.52 2019 No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
author: Rachel Louise Snyder
name: skein
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/20
shelves: currently-reading
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]]> <![CDATA[Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World]]> 30335530 In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.

Laura Spinney writes that the Spanish flu was as significant � if not more so � as two world wars in shaping the modern world; in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts.

]]> 332 Laura Spinney 1910702374 skein 3
... i live in the US, where we contributed almost half the global total. (i've had it five times, despite being extremely, amost compulsively well-vaccinated.)

so. yes. it's an odd comparison. the 1918 flu was about as bad as my experience of covid, in America, because of our government's open, dogmatic refusal to admit basic science -- but pretty much all the rest of the world dealt with it like grown-ups.

i guess that's the lesson here: listen to science. respond to threats as if they're real threats. socially distance. wear your mask. be a fucking grown-up.]]> 3.87 2017 Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
author: Laura Spinney
name: skein
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/20
date added: 2025/04/20
shelves: year-2025, non-fiction, 3-star
review:
eerily timely (published two years before the covid19 pandemic) and, viewed through that response, an interesting comparison. as of this writing about 3 million people have died of Covid, worldwide, which isn't much compared to the Spanish Flu (about 20 million deaths, conservatively)

... i live in the US, where we contributed almost half the global total. (i've had it five times, despite being extremely, amost compulsively well-vaccinated.)

so. yes. it's an odd comparison. the 1918 flu was about as bad as my experience of covid, in America, because of our government's open, dogmatic refusal to admit basic science -- but pretty much all the rest of the world dealt with it like grown-ups.

i guess that's the lesson here: listen to science. respond to threats as if they're real threats. socially distance. wear your mask. be a fucking grown-up.
]]> <![CDATA[Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)]]> 217536270
In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't do for a glass of water.

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember.

But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.

When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares... but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.

The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her.

Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he's the only way Saeris is going to make it home.]]> 624 Callie Hart 1538774194 skein 3 3-star, e-book, year-2025 4.29 2024 Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)
author: Callie Hart
name: skein
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/19
date added: 2025/04/19
shelves: 3-star, e-book, year-2025
review:
600 pages of "somehow, Palpatine returned"
]]> <![CDATA[Murder at Gulls Nest (Nora Breen Investigates #1)]]> 216739582 In a house like Gulls Nest, curiosity might prove fatal . . .

After thirty years in a convent, Nora Breen has thrown off her habit. Her fellow sister Frieda has gone missing and it's up to Nora to find her. Nora's only clue is that Frieda was last seen at Gulls Nest boarding house. So she travels down to the seaside town of Gore-on-Sea, takes a room and settles in to watch and listen.

Over dubious - and sometimes downright inedible - dinners, Nora gathers evidence about the other lodgers. At long last, she has found an outlet for her powers of observation and, well, nosiness.

When one of the lodgers is found dead, Nora decides she must find the murderer. Not least because she suspects the victim knew Frieda. Could solving this mystery help her to understand what has happened to her friend?]]> 335 Jess Kidd 0571378978 skein 0 to-read 4.26 2025 Murder at Gulls Nest (Nora Breen Investigates #1)
author: Jess Kidd
name: skein
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/18
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]]> <![CDATA[Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve]]> 203164397 Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks, and strategies to help secure that elusive corner office.

Over decades of research, speaking engagements, and mentorship, psychologist and professor Alison Fragale encountered recurring questions from high powered and early career women: How do women thread the needle of kindness and competence in the workplace? How can women earn credit for their accomplishments, negotiate better, and navigate complex office politics without losing the goodwill of their peers?

Fragale investigated and determined that many women's workplace issues boil down to the perception of others. No degree, title, or paycheck will raise a woman's workplace stature unless it also affects how other people respect and regard her. Acknowledging this roadblock, Fragale pulls back the curtain on how we can change how others see us by developing our standing as a "likeable badass." By cultivating perceptions of warmth and assertiveness, women can achieve the kind of reputation that leads to a seat at the table and a fulfilling career path.

Likeable Badass is equal parts behavioral science and life hacks, weaving together rigorous research with actionable advice and impactful stories from a diverse array of women. This is a warm, heartening book written for women of all stripes, as well as their allies, who want evidence-based, practical strategies for success, served with a side of inspiration and humor.]]> 256 Alison Fragale 0385549148 skein 3 2) swear to fuck if she used the term "likeable badass" one more fucking time]]> 4.31 Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve
author: Alison Fragale
name: skein
average rating: 4.31
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/11
date added: 2025/04/14
shelves: non-fiction, year-2025, e-book, 3-star
review:
1) surprisingly thoughtful, reasonably feminist examination of actionable ideas to get you places
2) swear to fuck if she used the term "likeable badass" one more fucking time
]]> <![CDATA[For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)]]> 56860527 The First Daughter is for the Throne
The Second Daughter is for the Wolf...

Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally--though it's one she'd rather never have to speak to again--the rogue king Solmir.

Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands and he believes helping Neve may be the key to its destruction. But to do that, they will both have to journey across a dangerous landscape in order to find a mysterious Heart Tree, and finally to claim the gods' dark, twisted powers for themselves.]]> 452 Hannah F. Whitten 0356516377 skein 0 year-2025, to-finish-later 3.79 2022 For the Throne (Wilderwood, #2)
author: Hannah F. Whitten
name: skein
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/11
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]]> <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> 39020 In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

]]> 563 Charles C. Mann 1400032059 skein 0 year-2025, non-fiction, dnf
... found one serious error in the first twenty pages, which isn't a great beginning. when your argument is largely conjecture held together with string, that string had better be REAL taut.]]> 4.05 2005 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
author: Charles C. Mann
name: skein
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at: 2025/04/10
date added: 2025/04/10
shelves: year-2025, non-fiction, dnf
review:
way, way too messy and pop-science-y for me. the author certainly tried to convince that he's very serious & Good At Research, but it reads like Bill Bryson cum endnotes.

... found one serious error in the first twenty pages, which isn't a great beginning. when your argument is largely conjecture held together with string, that string had better be REAL taut.
]]> A Girl Walks into the Forest 218734953 ѾdzmeetsThe Shadows Between Usin this alluring mash-up ofhorror and fairy talefromNew York Timesbestselling author MadeleineRoux, where a girl must embark on a harrowing journey through adeadly forest filled with otherworldly creatures, supernatural forces,and one maniacal villain who will stop at nothing to bring her down.

For as long as she can remember, Valla’s been told her beauty would give her a life most people only dreamed of. So when the mysterious Count Leonid calls on her to be his betrothed, Valla jumps at the chance to leave her small, bleak village. The only thing standing in her way? The journey through the dangerous Gottyar Wood that many don’t survive.

Filled with deadly and cunning creatures, the Gottyar immediately delivers on its reputation with an attack that leaves Valla injured; her face torn to shreds. Barely making it to the castle in one piece, Valla is relieved to finally be safe. But things have changed. Valla’s face is no longer beautiful. And the Count is not happy…Valla thought making it through the Gottyar was a victory, but when she sees what awaits beyond the palace walls, the true battle begins.

In this ruthlessly female-forward narrative that borrows from the best of horror, fairy tales, and folklore, a chewed-up-and-spit-out heroine must lean on the brutality of nature and her biggest fears in order to win back what’s she's been robbed her life.]]> Madeleine Roux 0063284952 skein 0 to-read 3.40 2025 A Girl Walks into the Forest
author: Madeleine Roux
name: skein
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> When the Wolf Comes Home 228411899 Nat Cassidy, author of the acclaimed horror Mary , returns with When the Wolf Comes Home , an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality.

“This is the kind of great, big, epic horror novel we got back in the '80s that came out swinging for the fences and left everything on the field. Welcome back, you shaggy, bloody monster of a book!”—Grady Hendrix

"The Stephen King of TikTok"�The Lineup

The 25 Best and Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025� Men's Health

Most Anticipated Horror of 2025� Paste Magazine , LitHub

One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.

As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of the butchery that follows them—the boy can turn his every fear into reality.

And when the wolf finally comes home, no one will be spared.

Other Books by Nat Cassidy

Mary, an Awakening of Terror

Nestlings

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.]]> Nat Cassidy skein 0 to-read 4.62 2025 When the Wolf Comes Home
author: Nat Cassidy
name: skein
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/30
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]]> Ace, King, Knave 17907300
Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland. But Zedland has secrets of his own and Sophia comes to suspect that her marriage is not what it seems.

In cramped rooms in Covent Garden, Betsy-Ann shuffles a pack of cards. A gambler, dealer in second-hand goods, and living with a grave robber, her life could not be more different to Sophia's - but she too discovers that she has been lied to.

As both women take steps to discover the truth, their lives come together through a dramatic series of events, taking the reader through the streets of 1760s London: a city wearing a genteel civility on its surface and rife with hypocrisy, oppression and violence lurking underneath.]]> 0 Maria McCann 0571297609 skein 0 to-read 3.42 2013 Ace, King, Knave
author: Maria McCann
name: skein
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/15
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]]> <![CDATA[The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)]]> 61237041
Mortem, the magic born from death, is a high-priced and illicit commodity in Dellaire, and Lore’s job running poisons keeps her in food, shelter, and relative security. But when a run goes wrong and Lore’s power is revealed, she’s taken by the Presque Mort, a group of warrior-monks sanctioned to use Mortem working for the Sainted King. Lore fully expects a pyre, but King August has a different plan. Entire villages on the outskirts of the country have been dying overnight, seemingly at random. Lore can either use her magic to find out what’s happening and who in the King’s court is responsible, or die.

Lore is thrust into the Sainted King’s glittering court, where no one can be believed and even fewer can be trusted. Guarded by Gabriel, a duke-turned-monk, and continually running up against Bastian, August’s ne'er-do-well heir, Lore tangles in politics, religion, and forbidden romance as she attempts to navigate a debauched and opulent society.

But the life she left behind in the catacombs is catching up with her. And even as Lore makes her way through the Sainted court above, they might be drawing closer than she thinks.

In this lush, romantic new epic fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten, a young woman’s secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King’s royal court.]]> 467 Hannah F. Whitten 031643499X skein 0 year-2025, dnf 3.73 2023 The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)
author: Hannah F. Whitten
name: skein
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/15
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]]> The Swallowed Man 51134978 160 Edward Carey 1913547035 skein 0 to-read 3.51 2020 The Swallowed Man
author: Edward Carey
name: skein
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> Hungerstone 212342605 Hungerstoneis a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’sA Dowry of Bloodand Emilia Hart’sWeyward.

For what do you hunger, Lenore?

Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage, the relationship has soured and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them out of London and to the imposing Nethershaw manor in the countryside, where Henry aims to host a hunt with society’s finest. Lenore keeps a terrible secret from the last time her husband hunted, and though they never speak of it, it haunts their marriage to this day.

The preparations for the event take a turn when a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a bloody hunger.

Torn between regaining her husband's affection and Carmilla's ever-growing presence, Lenore begins to unravel her past and in doing so, uncovers a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk . . .

Set against the violent wilderness of the moors and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution,Hungerstoneis a compulsive feminist reworking ofCarmilla, the book that inspiredDracula: a captivating story of appetite and desire.]]> 336 Kat Dunn 1638932166 skein 0 to-read 4.02 2025 Hungerstone
author: Kat Dunn
name: skein
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/11
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]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 42815544
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.]]> 307 Mona Awad 0525559736 skein 0 dnf 3.53 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
author: Mona Awad
name: skein
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/09
shelves: dnf
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]]> Consequences 954415
Like Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, written at the same time, Consequences is a scream of horror against Victorian values; however, its ironic tone cannot disguise EM Delafield’s deeply compassionate and feminist stance.]]> 421 E.M. Delafield 1903155029 skein 0 to-read 3.86 1919 Consequences
author: E.M. Delafield
name: skein
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1919
rating: 0
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]]> Race the Sands 49950349 In this stand-alone fantasy, Durst introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption, and deadly enemies in their quest to become monster-racing champions.

Life, death, and rebirth - in Becar, who you are in this life will determine your next life. Yet there is hope - you can change your destiny with the choices you make. But for the darkest individuals, there is no redemption: you come back as a kehok, a monster, and are doomed to be a kehok for the rest of time.

Unless you can win the Races.

After a celebrated career as an elite kehok rider, Tamra became a professional trainer. Then a tragic accident shattered her confidence, damaged her reputation, and left her nearly broke. Now, she needs the prize money to prevent the local temple from taking her daughter away from her, and that means she must once again find a winning kehok...and a rider willing to trust her.

Raia is desperate to get away from her domineering family and cruel fiancé. As a kehok rider, she could earn enough to buy her freedom. But she needs a first-rate trainer.

Impressed by the inexperienced young woman’s determination, Tamra hires Raia and pairs her with a strange new kehok with the potential to win - if he can be tamed.

But in this sport, if you forget you’re riding on the back of a monster, you die. Tamra and Raia will work harder than they ever thought possible to win the deadly Becaran Races - and in the process, discover what makes this particular kehok so special.]]> 528 Sarah Beth Durst 0062888617 skein 0 dnf, year-2025
but i really lost my will to go on in the book (and perhaps living) at 100 pages, because it went like this: Tamra's point of view (80 pages), then Raina (15 pages), then Dar (3 pages) and then someone else, and you know what, no. No.]]> 4.31 2020 Race the Sands
author: Sarah Beth Durst
name: skein
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/05
date added: 2025/03/05
shelves: dnf, year-2025
review:
Multiple point of view characters is fine, although you have to work pretty hard to justify that in a standalone YA novel about a plucky redheaded orphan girl who needs a horse to win the big race and save her dad's farm and she can only afford the mean ol stallion who can't be ridden by no whippersnapper and bites everyone (etc etc etc)

but i really lost my will to go on in the book (and perhaps living) at 100 pages, because it went like this: Tamra's point of view (80 pages), then Raina (15 pages), then Dar (3 pages) and then someone else, and you know what, no. No.
]]> Bear 187044 here and here.

Lou, a shy and secretive young librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of the recently deceased Colonel Cary. In a cabin on the island, she discovers the colonel had a secret as well. A bear is chained inside. Fascinated, Lou brings the bear into the house and slowly gains the animal’s trust. She sinks her fingers into the bear’s fur—and soon realizes her darkest desire is for this large, powerful animal to be her lover.

But there’s more to the story than the price to be paid for forbidden passion. This novel by award-winning author Marian Engel works within the logic of a fever dream as the young woman comes to an even greater, and unexpected, understanding of herself.

Bear was first published in 1976 and won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction. The novel has retained its power to shock, disturb, and move readers today.]]> 128 Marian Engel 0879236671 skein 4 year-2025, 4-star 3.37 1976 Bear
author: Marian Engel
name: skein
average rating: 3.37
book published: 1976
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/02
date added: 2025/03/02
shelves: year-2025, 4-star
review:
finally a proper answer to the age-old question: Man Or Bear?
]]> <![CDATA[Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It]]> 19661852
“A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero

At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered.

Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day.

This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.]]> 326 Gabriel Wyner skein 3 but our situations are so different that it ends up being unhelpful.]]> 4.07 2014 Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
author: Gabriel Wyner
name: skein
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: year-2025, non-fiction, 3-star
review:
his generalities are right, but it's like getting tips on budgeting from Warren Buffet -- ie. "just spend less than you earn" is wonderful but our situations are so different that it ends up being unhelpful.
]]> The Post-Office Girl 2376087 257 Stefan Zweig 1590172620 skein 0 to-read 4.13 1982 The Post-Office Girl
author: Stefan Zweig
name: skein
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/23
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]]> <![CDATA[The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)]]> 48654575 497 Patrick Ness 0763652164 skein 0 needs-review 3.95 2008 The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
author: Patrick Ness
name: skein
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/21
shelves: needs-review
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]]> Tryst 353306 264 Elswyth Thane 0884119564 skein 0 to-read 4.24 1939 Tryst
author: Elswyth Thane
name: skein
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches]]> 395491 138 Gaétan Soucy 1559705884 skein 0 to-read 3.81 1998 The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
author: Gaétan Soucy
name: skein
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/19
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Illness, Gender, and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield]]> 486185 248 Mary Burgan 0801848733 skein 0 to-read 3.33 1994 Illness, Gender, and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield
author: Mary Burgan
name: skein
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/19
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]]> <![CDATA[A Crack in the Line (Withern Rise, #1)]]> 391993 You are sixteen. You live with your father in a big Victorian house on the outskirts of London. Your mother is dead, killed in a train crash two years ago. It is snowing. The snow is falling on the house and the wide yard and the gnarled old tree that everyone calls the Family Tree. It makes you restless. You reach out your hands toward an object you've known all your life, and suddenly the walls melt away. When you open your eyes, you are still in your living room. "Who are you?" asks a girl who looks just like you but is not you. "And what are you doing in my house?"

You have stumbled into another version of your life. This girl is sixteen. She lives with your father (her father) in a big Victorian house on the outskirts of London. Your mother (her mother) is not dead. She had a close call in a train crash two years ago. Listen: your mother is calling you (her) now.

Michael Lawrence's gripping thriller about a boy and a girl who are the same person but not quite will have you turning the pages late into the night...and talking and thinking and wondering about the shifting nature of identity, time, space, and the cracks that can appear in a train rail, a lifeline, and a family tree.

]]> 323 Michael Lawrence 006072479X skein 0 to-read 3.82 1995 A Crack in the Line (Withern Rise, #1)
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]]> Breathe: A Ghost Story 394856 the spirits of the dead.
They can’t breathe, but in Jack’s house they chase, hide, scream.
Only Jack can see them. Only he can hear them. And only he can learn their secrets in time to save himself... and his mother...

Winner of the Salford Book Award, the Calderdale Book Award and the Virginia Readers' Choice Award. In May 2013 Breathe was voted by the Schools Network of British Libraries as one of the top 100 adult and children's novels of all time.]]> 261 Cliff McNish 0822564432 skein 0 to-read 3.93 2006 Breathe: A Ghost Story
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]]> <![CDATA[I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia]]> 782320
Preserved here, these markings—the evidence used to convict Nina as a “counterrevolutionary”—offer today’s reader a fascinating perspective on the era in which she lived.]]> 304 Nina Lugovskaya 0618605754 skein 0 to-read 3.28 2000 I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
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]]> Masha 327184 296 Mara Kay 0688416063 skein 0 to-read 4.40 1968 Masha
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]]> The Queen in Winter 455412
Lynn Kurland spins a story of a mortal man and an elven woman who endure both the mundane and the magical in their quest to remain together.

Sharon Shinn writes of a brave young woman who saves her sister's magically-gifted child, only to receive an unexpected gift of her own.

Sarah Monette's tells of a warrior maiden trapped in a deadly storm with the only man she ever wanted, whose scars she must heal if he is ever to want her.]]> 312 Claire Delacroix 0425207722 skein 0 to-read 3.53 2006 The Queen in Winter
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]]> <![CDATA[Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)]]> 93575 501 Dorothy L. Sayers 0061043494 skein 0 to-read 4.20 1935 Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
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]]> Cloven Hooves 401430
With womanhood came unexpected happiness: a husband, a son. She could put away her imaginary friends and those magic days in the wood. But now tragedy strikes, a tragedy that may cost her both husband and son. And Pan has returned.

Here is the deeply moving story of one's woman's coming to adulthood, a journey every woman will understand.]]> 360 Megan Lindholm 0553293273 skein 0 to-read 3.73 1991 Cloven Hooves
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]]> The Children's Civil War 451665 Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they endured. He also explores children's politicization, their contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to children's "amateur newspapers," Marten examines the myriad ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children.

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"An original-minded, skillfully and suggestively presented history, haunting in its detailed unfolding of a war that put so many already vulnerable youngsters in danger, but elicited from some of them, as well, impressively sensitive, responsive thoughts, gestures, and deeds in what became, as this extraordinary book's title insists, their civil war.-- Journal of American History

"James Marten's thoroughly researched and engagingly written study . . . stands as one of the most exciting studies to emerge in the last dozen years. . . . Marten has taken a topic ignored by both Civil War historians and historians of childhood and crafted an engaging, masterful, nuanced, and readable study that will not quickly leave the reader's mind or heart.-- American Studies

"The first comprehensive account of Civil War children. . . . Thoroughly researched and nicely illustrated, The Children's Civil War will be a touchstone for historians and generalists who seek to gain a fuller understanding of life on the home front between 1861 and 1865.-- Civil War History

The Children's Civil War is a poignant and fascinating look at childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. Using sources that include diaries, memoirs, and letters, James Marten examines the wartime experiences of young people--boys and girls, black and white, northern and southern--and traces the ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. -->]]> 368 James Marten 0807849049 skein 0 to-read 3.61 1998 The Children's Civil War
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]]> <![CDATA[Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China]]> 1918702 Long, long ago a good woman lived contentedly with her three daughters—Shang, tao, and Paotze—in the country-side of northern China...

But one day she had to leave to visit their granny, so she warned her children to close the door tight and to latch it.

Son after, to their surprise, there was a knock at the door and a voice saying that it was their granny, their Po Po. What could the children do but let her in? But what a low voice she had, what thorny hands, and what a hairy face!

The Chinese tale of Lon Po Po, Granny Wolf, like the European tale of Little Red Riding Hood, comes from an ancient oral tradition and is thought to be over a thousand years old. It is a favorite tale of artist Ed young, who translated and illustrated this version. Using a dramatic style that combines techniques used in ancient Chinese panel art with a powerful contemporary palette or watercolors and pastels, Mr. Young has created a book of classic beauty and charm.

Ed Young was born in Tientsin, China, grew up in Shanghai, and brings his Eastern heritage to his artwork. From the authentic Oriental papercut technique of The Emperor and the Kite to the rich and glowing pastels of Yeh Shin, Mr. Young attains a versatility of feeling, theme, and style. Cats are Cats, his much lauded collaboration with anthologist Nancy Larrick, was named one of the Ten Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1988 as well as an ALA Notable Book for Children.

1990 Caldecott Medal Winner

Edition MSRP: $16⁹⁹ USA / $25⁵⁰ CAN (ISBN 0-399-21619-7)]]> 32 Ed Young 0399216197 skein 0 to-read 4.06 1989 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
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]]> <![CDATA[Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade]]> 531316 336 Rickie Solinger 0415908949 skein 0 to-read 4.18 1992 Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
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]]> <![CDATA[Rains All the Time: A Connoisseur's History of Weather in the Pacific Northwest]]> 356193 Rains All the Time, however, it soon becomes clear that the pat image of a perpetually soggy Pacific Northwest is a gross oversimplification. David Laskin points out that, despite the time-honored Seattle and Portland tradition of rain-bashing, these two cities get less rain on average than New York City, and regions east of the Cascade mountains never get enough. Yet, regardless of actual precipitation, rain remains the region's symbol, its favorite joke, and reliable scapegoat. Laskin says that northwesterners are connoisseurs of weather, and deserve a book devoted to its historic, literary, biologic, and cultural impact. He delves into the climatic complexity of the region (from rain forest to desert), and the complexity of its denizens (from boasters to whiners). If you can't escape the wet, you might as well wallow in it.]]> 215 David Laskin 1570610630 skein 0 to-read 3.79 1997 Rains All the Time: A Connoisseur's History of Weather in the Pacific Northwest
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]]> Swastika Night 387373 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. The plot centers on a “misfit� who asks, “How could this have happened?”]]> 196 Katharine Burdekin 0935312560 skein 0 to-read 3.67 1937 Swastika Night
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]]> Women of the Raj 416987 256 Margaret MacMillan 0500278989 skein 0 to-read 3.76 1988 Women of the Raj
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]]> <![CDATA[But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies]]> 356566 Feminist Bookstore News]]> 432 Akasha Gloria Hull 0912670959 skein 0 to-read 4.40 1986 But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
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]]> Little, Big 90619 Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.]]> 538 John Crowley 0061120057 skein 0 to-read 3.81 1981 Little, Big
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]]> <![CDATA[Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy]]> 330851 157 Samantha King 0816648980 skein 0 to-read 3.72 2006 Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
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]]> <![CDATA[No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement]]> 359140
“The primer for a revolution.”� The Chicago Tribune

“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society’s myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.� —from the Introduction]]> 400 Joseph P. Shapiro 0812924126 skein 0 to-read 4.09 1993 No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
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]]> <![CDATA[The Discovery of Neverland: The Transformation of Childhood 1500-1900]]> 384526 Judith Flanders 0060594616 skein 0 to-read 4.00 2005 The Discovery of Neverland: The Transformation of Childhood 1500-1900
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]]> <![CDATA[Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism]]> 82408
The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. Cited more often than any other single English-language work in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty translations.

Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Following the rise and conflict of nations and the decline of empires, Anderson draws on examples from South East Asia, Latin America and Europe’s recent past to show how nationalism shaped the modern world.]]> 240 Benedict Anderson 1844670864 skein 0 to-read 4.04 1983 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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]]> Maia 12444 1056 Richard Adams 0670800333 skein 0 to-read 4.02 1984 Maia
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]]> <![CDATA[A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That]]> 329464 Ella Bloom, an adult student in Rachel's poetry class, has aspirations beyond her work at a local family planning clinic. But she spends her nights wondering why her husband kissed one of her colleagues and whether it will lead to a full-fledged affair. She is also preoccupied with one of her repeat patients, Georgia, a teenager whose frequent clinic visits speak volumes. What they all have in common is their desire for love, despite its many obstacles.
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That is a novel rife with wit and compassion. A provocative, assured new voice in literary fiction, Lisa Glatt eyes the yardsticks by which we constantly measure our world and ourselves -- devotion, lust, forgiveness, and courage.]]> 304 Lisa Glatt 0743257766 skein 0 to-read 3.40 2004 A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
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]]> <![CDATA[Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others]]> 524988 Featured stories include J. S. LeFanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," with a mysterious old mansion as the focal point; Mary E. Wilkins' "The Lost Ghost," in which a strange child's disturbing presence instills fear and foreboding in all those she encounters; Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatchers"; "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost," by Wilkie Collins; and other gripping works by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Ralph Cram, Mrs. Henry Wood, Amelia B. Edwards, Fitz-James O'Brien, and M. R. James.
Rich in detail and ghoulish incidents, this modestly priced collection will thrill readers who appreciate tales of terror as well as devotees of well-crafted literature.]]> 176 John Grafton 0486404307 skein 0 to-read 3.89 1930 Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others
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]]> The Life Before Her Eyes 205005 An acclaimed writer and poet, Laura Kasischke has crafted a consciousness that encompasses the truth of a teenager's world and the profound transformation of that world at midlife. Resonant and deeply stirring, The Life Before Her Eyes finds piercing beauty in the midst of a nightmare from long ago that echoes like a dirge beneath each new spring.]]> 288 Laura Kasischke 0156027127 skein 0 to-read 3.33 2002 The Life Before Her Eyes
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]]> Our Ecstatic Days 184924 336 Steve Erickson 0743285107 skein 0 to-read 3.93 2005 Our Ecstatic Days
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]]> Winesburg, Ohio 470727 Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people.]]> 256 Sherwood Anderson 0140186557 skein 0 to-read 3.87 1919 Winesburg, Ohio
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]]> Break Any Woman Down 212244
An eleven-year-old black girl from South Central LA discovers the strangeness of moving to the suburbs and falling in love with a white boy. A pair of enthusiastic middle-aged Iranian sisters debate whether or not their futures hold children. A punk musician falls for a girl out of his league. A black lap dancer gives up her job to move in with her Greek actor boyfriend, who hasn’t managed to get roles in anything but porn movies. Whether bold or rueful, salacious or sweet, each voice in Break Any Woman Down is vibrantly authentic; together they add a fresh and welcome chorus to American literature.]]> 176 Dana Johnson 1400030463 skein 0 to-read 4.11 2001 Break Any Woman Down
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diary of a Provincial Lady]]> 4306743 Diary of a Provincial Lady was first published in 1930, critics on both sides of the Atlantic greeted it with enthusiasm. This charming, delightful and extremely funny book about daily life in a frugal English household was named by booksellers as the out-of-print novel most deserving of republication.

This is a gently self-effacing, dry-witted tale of a long-suffering and disaster-prone Devon lady of the 1930s. A story of provincial social pretensions and the daily inanities of domestic life to rival George Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.]]> 172 E.M. Delafield 1844085228 skein 0 to-read 3.78 1930 The Diary of a Provincial Lady
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man in Lower Ten (Miss Cornelia Van Gorder Trilogy #1)]]> 1824849 251 Mary Roberts Rinehart 0758202695 skein 0 to-read 3.53 1909 The Man in Lower Ten (Miss Cornelia Van Gorder Trilogy #1)
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]]> A Prayer for the Dying 321623 A Prayer for the Dying is the story of a small Wisconsin town gripped by a mysterious, deadly epidemic, and one man desperate to save it. Torn between his loyalty to his family, his faith in God, and his terror of this vicious disease, Jacob Hansen struggles to preserve his sanity amid the chaos and violence around him.]]> 208 Stewart O'Nan 0312255012 skein 0 to-read 4.01 1999 A Prayer for the Dying
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]]> The Torture Garden 539369 Book by Octave Mirbeau 175 Octave Mirbeau 0965104265 skein 0 to-read 3.58 1899 The Torture Garden
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]]> <![CDATA[This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen]]> 228244 180 Tadeusz Borowski 0140186247 skein 0 to-read 4.17 1946 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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]]> Gallows Songs 2569398 Morgenstern ve své nejslavnější sbírce potvrzuje pověst zakladatele německé nonsensové poezie. Jeho verše, většinou komponované v pravidelné rýmové poloze, jsou zaplněny bizarními postavami i tvary a zcela originální, nepřehlédnutelnou groteskní nadsázkou. Jsou obdařeny svébytnou poetikou, v níž se na jedné straně odrážely tehdejší myšlenkové a filozofické proudy, na straně druhé však v sobě nesly i intenzivní náboj humoru, smysl pro hravost i jazykový vtip. V pravém slova smyslu se tak autor stal zakladatelem ve své době ojedinělého typu básnictví, které dovedl s bravurní jistotou k naprosté dokonalosti. Sám prohlašuje, že jeho texty jsou vlastně psány "velkým dítětem pro velké děti" a s tímto tvrzením nelze polemizovat. Morgenstern záměrně pracuje se sklonem ke zdánlivě literární nevážnosti, kterou navíc zdůrazňuje jakousi intelektuální ztřeštěností. Ponechává naprostou volnost a průchod domnělým absurditám, jež ho napadly, které však v konečném výsledku přinesly zcela neobvyklou a originální žeň průpovídek, říkánek i komických epizod.]]> 620 Christian Morgenstern 1125416998 skein 0 to-read 4.00 1905 Gallows Songs
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]]> The Taste of a Man 212593 208 Slavenka Drakulić 0140266224 skein 0 to-read 3.59 1995 The Taste of a Man
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]]> The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 239437
Originally published in 1945, made into a movie in 1947, and later adapted into a television sitcom in 1968, this romantic tale explores how love can develop without boundaries, both in this life and beyond.]]> 174 R.A. Dick 0899683959 skein 0 to-read 4.10 1945 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare]]> 184419
As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at all, though, if he didn't also show such passion for giving the devil his due. He animates the forces of chaos and anarchy with every ounce of imaginative verve and rhetorical force in his body.]]> 182 G.K. Chesterton 0375757910 skein 0 to-read 3.85 1908 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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]]> Revising Prose 2265578 As its title implies, this book deals with revising, not with original composition. Stressing the importance of the single sentence, The Paramedic Method of revision provides an easily learned method of revision to combat the obscurities of meaning that plague The Official Style, and demonstrates how to revise this stilted, dense prose into plain English. This book has been used with success wherever extensive writing is required, and also at every level of higher education. Addresses the specific stylistic patterns that characterize most bad writing and gives an eight-step revision method called The Paramedic Method to break those patterns and improve writing. Helps with writing tasks in business, government, and the university, where The Official Style is rampant, and provides an indispensable guide to revising in every writing context. For anyone interested in revising, specifically at the sentence level.]]> 85 Richard A. Lanham 0023674458 skein 0 to-read 4.57 1979 Revising Prose
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]]> Beauty and the Beast 196958 30 Jan Brett 0899194974 skein 0 to-read 4.24 1989 Beauty and the Beast
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]]> <![CDATA[Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller]]> 316581
Blind Rage employs an adroit form of creative nonfiction to review the critical junctures in Keller’s life. The simple facts about Helen Keller are how Anne Sullivan taught her deaf-blind pupil to communicate and learn; her impressive career as a Radcliffe graduate and author; her countless public appearances in various venues, from cinema to vaudeville, to campaigns for the American Foundation for the Blind. But Kleege delves below the surface to question the perfection of this image. Through the device of her letters, she challenges Keller to reveal her actual emotions, the real nature of her long relationship with Sullivan, with Sullivan’s husband, and her brief engagement to Peter Fagan. Kleege’s imaginative dramatization, distinguished by her depiction of Keller’s command of abstract sensations, gradually shifts in perspective from anger to admiration. Blind Rage criticizes the Helen Keller myth for prolonging an unrealistic model for blind people, yet it appreciates the individual who found a practical way to live despite the restrictions of her myth.]]> 224 Georgina Kleege 1563682958 skein 0 to-read 3.88 2006 Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller
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]]> Heckedy Peg 285672 32 Audrey Wood 0152336796 skein 0 to-read 4.31 1987 Heckedy Peg
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]]> Three Kinds of Asking for It 312112
Three cutting-edge writers explore the high-wire risk of having a sexual wish come true. In "Jodi K" by Jill Soloway, the award-winning writer/producer of Six Feet Under , a suburban teenager is a skeptical part of every high school make-out scene, but her heart is fixed on the middle-aged man next door. "Charmed, I'm Sure" by Eric Albert, a frequent contributor to Best American Erotica, tells of a single man who enters into a contract with a modern-day witch and finds there are unforeseen complications even in the most magical seductions. The young woman in "Bending" by Greta Christina, the author of Paying for It, can't seem to find an alternative sexual position...until her friends and lovers come up with a scheme that opens her up -- literally -- to her real needs and desires.]]> 240 Jill Soloway 0743245504 skein 0 to-read 3.38 2005 Three Kinds of Asking for It
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]]> The Weaker Vessel 234625 738 Antonia Fraser skein 0 to-read 3.94 1984 The Weaker Vessel
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]]> Rumpelstiltskin 280240 40 Paul O. Zelinsky 0140558640 skein 0 to-read 4.25 1888 Rumpelstiltskin
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]]> <![CDATA[Deathbird Stories (Nucleus Fantasy Classic)]]> 219375 295 Harlan Ellison 0020847459 skein 0 to-read 4.11 1975 Deathbird Stories (Nucleus Fantasy Classic)
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]]> <![CDATA[Coloring Mandalas 1: For Insight, Healing, and Self-Expression (An Adult Coloring Book)]]> 244271 128 Susanne F. Fincher 1570625832 skein 0 to-read 4.18 2000 Coloring Mandalas 1: For Insight, Healing, and Self-Expression (An Adult Coloring Book)
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]]> <![CDATA[Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (Mit Press)]]> 191437 286 Nick Montfort 0262633183 skein 0 to-read 3.73 2003 Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (Mit Press)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (Virago Modern Classics)]]> 107973 320 Daphne du Maurier 1844080757 skein 0 to-read 3.65 1960 The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (Virago Modern Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories]]> 255374 288 M.R. James 0143039393 skein 0 to-read 4.22 2005 Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832]]> 306822 412 Stella Tillyard 0374524475 skein 0 to-read 4.10 1994 Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
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]]> <![CDATA[My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)]]> 48132 My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.]]> 273 Gerald Durrell 0142004413 skein 0 to-read 4.19 1956 My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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]]> A Good and Happy Child 117995
As he delves into his childhood memories, he begins to recall things he hasn’t thought of in twenty years. Events, people, and strange situations come rushing back. The odd, rambling letters his father sent home before he died. The jovial mother who started dating too soon after his father’s death. A boy who appeared one night when George was lonely, then told him secrets he didn’t want to know. How no one believed this new friend was real and that he was responsible for the bad things that were happening.

Terrified by all that he has forgotten, George struggles to remember what really happened in the months following his father’s death. Were his ominous visions and erratic behavior the product of a grief-stricken child’s overactive imagination (a perfectly natural reaction to the trauma of loss, as his mother insisted)? Or were his father’s colleagues, who blamed a darker, more malevolent force, right to look to the supernatural as a means to end George’s suffering? Twenty years later, George still does not know. But when a mysterious murder is revealed, remembering the past becomes the only way George can protect himself–and his young family.

A psychological thriller in the tradition of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History –with shades of The Exorcist –the smart and suspenseful A Good and Happy Child leaves you questioning the things you remember and frightened of the things you’ve forgotten.]]> 336 Justin Evans 030735122X skein 0 to-read 3.46 2007 A Good and Happy Child
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]]> <![CDATA[Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws]]> 13617897 313 J. Walker McSpadden skein 0 to-read 0.0 1904 Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws
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]]> Address Unknown 114437 Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much of Europe.



A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, Address Unknown is a haunting tale of enormous and enduring impact.

]]> 64 Kathrine Kressmann Taylor 0743412710 skein 0 to-read 4.35 1938 Address Unknown
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]]> <![CDATA[Hotel Paradise (Emma Graham, #1)]]> 772745
Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present. In the world as seen by Martha Grimes, those repercussions simmer and seethe and wind their way through hearts and souls. The ramifications can be subtle. Or exhilarating. Passionate. And they can also be deadly.

Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death. It is a novel with extraordinary range and depth that ultimately becomes a thrilling morality play.]]> 438 Martha Grimes 0345394259 skein 0 to-read 3.75 1996 Hotel Paradise (Emma Graham, #1)
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]]> Enough Rope 106392 Poetry 110 Dorothy Parker skein 0 to-read 4.17 1926 Enough Rope
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]]> <![CDATA[The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys]]> 690609 As the killings, abductions, raids, and heartbreak escalate bitterly and senselessly, Fanny, the sole voice of reason, realizes that she is powerless to stop the fighting and must learn to rise above the petty natures of her family and neighbors to find her own way out of the hatred.
]]> 228 Ann Rinaldi 0152164502 skein 0 to-read 3.85 1999 The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys
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]]> The House on Parchment Street 92756 192 Patricia A. McKillip 0689704518 skein 0 to-read 3.57 1973 The House on Parchment Street
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]]> <![CDATA[First Fig and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)]]> 143478 Their brilliance undimmed by the passage of time, these gemlike verses continue to dazzle poetry lovers. This new anthology represents the quintessential Edna St. Vincent Millay, comprising 67 poems from two of her most popular works, A Few Figs from Thistles and Second April . Its contents include such well-known and much-studied poems as "Recuerdo" and "The Philosopher," along with an abundance of sonnets, a genre in which the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet excelled.
The perfect introduction for those as yet unacquainted with one of the most distinctive voices of 20th-century poetry, this volume also offers a high-quality, inexpensive treasury of favorite Millay works for devotees of her verse.]]> 50 Edna St. Vincent Millay 0486411044 skein 0 to-read 4.11 1921 First Fig and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shield of Three Lions (Alix of Wanthwaite, #1)]]> 128236
Disguised as a beautiful young boy, Alix is more than befriended by the handsome and mysterious King Richard, even becoming his favorite page. Their relationship sets tongues wagging and places Alix in considerable danger as the battle for Jerusalem unfolds.]]> 496 Pamela Kaufman 0609809466 skein 0 to-read 3.83 1983 The Shield of Three Lions (Alix of Wanthwaite, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen]]> 164397 184 Laurie Colwin 0060955309 skein 0 to-read 4.15 1988 Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
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]]> Bright Lights, Big City 86147 Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.]]> 208 Jay McInerney skein 0 to-read 3.80 1984 Bright Lights, Big City
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]]> <![CDATA[The Country Wife and Other Plays]]> 161320 Love in a Wood, The Gentleman Dancing-Master, The Country Wife, and The Plain Dealer. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction, a note on staging, and detailed annotation.]]> 528 William Wycherley 0192834541 skein 0 to-read 3.59 1971 The Country Wife and Other Plays
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]]> <![CDATA[Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)]]> 45107 alternate cover for ISBN 0006480098

Fitz is a royal bastard, cast out into the world with only his magical link with animals for solace and companionship.
But when Fitz is adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and learn a new life: weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly. Meanwhile, raiders ravage the coasts, leaving the people Forged and soulless. As Fitz grows towards manhood, he will have to face his first terrifying mission, a task that poses as much a risk to himself as it does to his target: Fitz is a threat to the throne� but he may also be the key to the future of the kingdom.

Cover illustration by John Howe

]]> 460 Robin Hobb skein 0 to-read 4.14 1995 Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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]]> Beggars and Choosers 134943 An impassioned argument for reproductive rights

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable, nonconfrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the word choice--an easier concept for people weary of various rights movements. At first the distinction in language didn't seem to make much difference-the law seemed to guarantee both. But in the years since, the change has become enormously important.

In Beggars and Choosers, Solinger shows how historical distinctions between women of color and white women, between poor and middle-class women, were used in new ways during the era of "choice." Politicians and policy makers began to exclude certain women from the class of "deserving mothers" by using the language of choice to create new public policies concerning everything from Medicaid funding for abortions to family tax credits, infertility treatments, international adoption, teen pregnancy, and welfare. Solinger argues that the class-and-race-inflected guarantee of "choice" is a shaky foundation on which to build our notions of reproductive freedom. Her impassioned argument is for reproductive rights as human rights--as a basis for full citizenship status for women.
]]> 304 Rickie Solinger 0809028603 skein 0 to-read 4.17 2001 Beggars and Choosers
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]]> A Hero of Our Time 226378 A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.]]> 185 Mikhail Lermontov 014044176X skein 0 to-read 4.12 1839 A Hero of Our Time
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]]> <![CDATA[Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century]]> 79147 256 Philip Hoare 1559704721 skein 0 to-read 3.35 1997 Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century
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note - i actually want 'leviathan: or the whale'.
]]> <![CDATA[A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë]]> 13224 332 Katherine Frank 0449906612 skein 0 to-read I'm dubious, yet obsessed. 4.11 1990 A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë
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I'm dubious, yet obsessed.
]]> Flood Summer 83370 Marie Hamilton, meanwhile, has arrived in the pouring rain, knocking on the door of a middle-class Hot Springs home - that of her father, whom she has not known since she was a child. Bringing all her possessions in the trunk of her car, leaving her troubled history on the road behind her, Marie has one to begin her life anew.
When Abe and Marie meet and fall into a tumultuous relationship, they are forced to rethink their respective pasts - uncovering and confronting secrets they would rather not disturb.]]> 323 Trenton Lee Stewart 0870745050 skein 0 to-read 3.82 2005 Flood Summer
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]]> The Sundial 131181 (Chicago Tribune): When an aging heiress learns of an impending apocalypse while on a garden walk, her family becomes fixated on preparing for the imminent doom. “One of the premiere gothic horror writers of the 20th century’s funniest and strangest endeavors� Think P. G. Wodehouse meets The Twilight Zone� (AudioFile).

Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson’s stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial. Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when she wanders off into the secret garden. But then Aunt Fanny returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world. For Aunt Fanny's long-dead father has given her the precise date of the final cataclysm!]]> 245 Shirley Jackson 0140083170 skein 0 to-read 3.83 1958 The Sundial
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]]> Jenny Saville 171831 160 Gagosian Gallery 0847827577 skein 0 to-read 4.45 2005 Jenny Saville
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]]> Raising Demons 131187 Life Among the Savages charmed thousands with its insightful wit and contrasting warmth. In this sequel, Shirley Jackson continues her affectionate, hilarious, sophisticated tale of dubious parental equilibrium in the face of four children, assorted dogs and cats, and the uncounted heaps of small intrusive possessions which pile up in corners everywhere.]]> 310 Shirley Jackson 0897334132 skein 0 to-read 4.15 1957 Raising Demons
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]]> <![CDATA[History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past]]> 178302
What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest to teachers, historians, and museum curators. Everywhere now, history is increasingly being held hostage, but to what end and why? In History Wars , eight prominent historians consider the angry swirl of emotions that now surrounds public memory. Included are trenchant essays by Paul Boyer, John W. Dower, Tom Engelhardt, Richard H. Kohn, Edward Linenthal, Micahel S. Sherry, Marilyn B. Young, and Mike Wallace.]]> 295 Edward T. Linenthal 080504387X skein 0 to-read 3.68 1996 History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
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]]> Snow White and Rose Red 81078
Tor Books is proud to present the latest offering in the Fairy Tale Series -- a growing library of beautifully-designed original novels by acclaimed writers of fantasy and horror, each retelling a classic tale such as Snow White and Rose Red, Briar Rose, and Tam Lin in interesting -- often startling -- new ways.]]> 288 Patricia C. Wrede 0812534972 skein 0 to-read 3.78 1989 Snow White and Rose Red
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]]> <![CDATA[The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft]]> 81904 1990 1st Ed. U 0f Texas Press 292 S.T. Joshi 0292790570 skein 0 to-read 4.03 1990 The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft
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]]> Snow White, Blood Red 141024 Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children... But no longer.

You hold in your hands a volume of wonders -- magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite -- lush and erotic, often dark and disturbing mystical journeys through a phantasmagoric landscape of distinctly adult sensibilities... where there is no such thing as "happily ever after."

The "Snow White, Blood Red" Collection

#1. Snow White, Blood Red

#2. Black Thorn, White Rose

#3. Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

#4. Black Swan, White Raven

#5. Silver Birch, Blood Moon

#6. Black Heart, Ivory Bones
]]> 414 Ellen Datlow 0380718758 skein 0 to-read 3.74 1993 Snow White, Blood Red
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]]> Arrogance 155147 288 Joanna Scott 0312423888 skein 0 to-read 3.64 1990 Arrogance
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