pdotb started reading Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for …
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Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for …
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A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
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I felt like there was much joy in how Keiko had found her place in life, and fulfillment through doing a good job at the convenience store. Nicely critical of the way the people around her -- her so-called friends -- can't accept the choices she's made that make her happy and keep trying to push her into something else. The only sour note for me was Shiraha; I get why he's in the story, but every page with him on it was so unpleasant (perhaps I'd become weirdly protective of Keiko?) that I enjoyed the last third of the book much less than the preceding two-thirds.
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Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences …
Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay is killed, everyone at the …