Okay, as usual, I let this sit too long. In my defense, I had a new job, COVID, and international travel in there, so things got dicey. A lot of good books this time, though it covers more ground than I normally do, time-wise. All title links go to bookshop.
Read MoreRight now, I want to talk about a common subgenre within horror, which I am coming to call the “woman-in-house” novel. These are not simply haunted house novels; they are not simply feminist horror novels; these are not simply gothic novels. They display a constellation of traits that makes them identifiable as the same kind of thing.
Read MoreIncluded in here is a wider variety of books than I normally read, because we have two novels that I read for the literature class I taught this past semester. Teaching literature is really different from teaching composition, and while I’d gladly do both going forward, I definitely need more practice as a literature teacher.
Read MoreWe write these on the off-chance that people might click through on the link, go to bookshop, and buy the books (doing so supports us a little bit, and local bookshops a bit more; we like that fact more than we like giving Amazon any more money than we have to.) However, there are two things I’d like to point out and suggest that people donate to help with: the specific state of the internet archive, and the more general case of supporting the rights of transgender people.
Read MoreThis slate of reviews is going to be uneven in length and scope – I have two extremely long reviews that probably should have been off on their own, but I’m putting them here now because I don’t want to put them on their own.
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