Month: October 2024
Top Ten Tuesday – Skulls & Skeletons
Halloween is just around the corner, so it’s naturally this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl.
I can safely say that, of all the spooky creatures and monsters, undead skeletons terrified me the most as a child. I have a vivid memory of hovering outside the biology classroom with a couple of other second graders, daring each other to look through the keyhole at the skeleton model. It was obviously fake and didn’t even have a skull, but it still sent us running away in terror. So, here are some book covers featuring skeletons, skulls and bones.
New Music 10/2024 – The Creole Choir of Cuba, Beth Gibbons
Joyful and impassioned Caribbean gospel; bewitching solo debut from the Portishead singer.
The Omen (1976) – Film Review
It’s the spooky season, so I thought I’d revisit this iconic horror film that had scarred my childhood.
Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Was Assigned to Read in School
This week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl sent me down the memory lane, back to the books I had to read for school.
The Substance – Film Review
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of body horror, but I really loved this brash, bold and obscene fable that feels like a work of singular vision despite easily spotted influences.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler – Book Review
Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, as the famous Leo Tolstoy quote goes. It’s fair to say that the unhappy family in this quirky and zestful novel is quite unlike anything else I’ve read about.
Ode To The Cat
The animals were imperfect,
long-tailed,
unfortunate in their heads.
Little by little they
put themselves together,
making themselves a landscape,
acquiring spots, grace, flight.
The cat,
only the cat
appeared complete and proud:
he was born completely finished,
walking alone and knowing what he wanted.
– Pablo Neruda
Speak No Evil (2024)
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