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You Will Speak for the Dead
Paul Simard’s life is a mess. When his mother dies, and his boyfriend moves out, the only thing Paul has left is his hoarder house cleaning business, and that’s not exactly a recipe for dating success. But after Paul gets a call to clean out the home of some elderly biologist, nothing will ever be…
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Unf*ck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess
Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who’d describe our current living situation as a “f*cking mess” that we’re desperate to fix. Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems: The ones that ignore single people with full-time jobs; people without kids but living…
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Edenville
An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones. After publishing his debut novel, The Shattered Man, to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a…
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Aug 9 – Fog
A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a…
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Appalachian Folklore Unveiled
Step behind the veil of a rarely accessed culture with terrifying and mysterious ghost stories and lore as old and deeply enriched as the Appalachian Mountains themselves. Hosts of the leading, ever-popular horror podcast network, Eeriecast, guide the reader through the winding trails and thick forests of Appalachia, encountering the ghosts, creepy creatures, paranormal sounds,…
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How to Use a Sewing Machine
Listen I needed to find a reason why my machine kept jamming and then I ended up learning there are models where you can drop the feed dog. Imagine that!!! I want a model like that! Honestly I might think about picking up a physical copy because it had all these awesome diagrams AND how…
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Bury Your Gays
This is an AWESOME takedown of rainbow capitalism and AI in creative spaces. Chuck Tingle has always been a stellar writer, but holy shit, this is fantastic. It really leans into a paranormal angle at first, and it’s definitely along the lines I was thinking, but the execution turned the expected turnout into something more.…
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The Giant Bear: An Inuit Folktale
Bonus round of research, I peeked at this trying to understand the scale of a nanurluk. Das big
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On the Shoulder of a Giant: An Inuit Folktale
Inukpak the giant loved to travel across the Arctic tundra, but because of his size he is always alone, until he adopts a hunter as his son I found this as I was researched the Inukpasugjuit and holy shit, I love it? I know it’s a children’s book, shut the FUCK up. Just hold on,…
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The Manga Cookbook
From the kitchens of the Manga University Culinary Institute comes the critically acclaimed “The Manga Cookbook,” a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to making the same sorts of foods you see in your favorite manga and anime series, including popular bento (boxed lunch) recipes! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that…
Category: Books
Welcome to the Menagerie.
Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.
What is M?
I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.
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