October 2021 – Page 2 – More Words About Books

Short Story Review – There’s Nothing Left Without the Smoke by Osahon Ize-Iyama

Posted on October 6, 2021 by Ben Gilles

A man wakes up amidst a pile of bodies in a forest. He’s filled with an irresistible desire to burn things. Not the trees, but… Continue reading

Short Story Review – Hundreds of Little Absences by Aimee Ogden

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Ben Gilles

I love cheesey horror movies. My wife and I went to see Insidious 2 on our first date. Neither of us had seen Insidious 1.… Continue reading

Short Story Review – Fading Memories by Michael Bracken

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Ben Gilles

[Content Warning: This one is pretty much erotica] On Twitter I announced that I had a personal goal of reading one short horror story for… Continue reading

Short Story Review – Double Dare by Serena Jayne

Posted on October 3, 2021 by Ben Gilles

Double Dare by Serena Jayne is a modern twist on a classic horror formula. A person desecrates a grave, corpse, or some other artifact of… Continue reading

Short Story Review – Darkness in August by Bentley Little

Posted on October 2, 2021 by Ben Gilles

[Content Warning: Rape] There’s a kind of subgenre that crops up from time to time in short form horror fiction. I don’t know if it… Continue reading

Short Story Review – The Wemategunis by James Edward O’Brien

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Ben Gilles

The Wemategunis is a story about a creature from Native American folklore (pronounced: weh-mah-teh-guh-neese) that struck me as being similar to the huldufólk from Icelandic… Continue reading

Ben's books

The President Is Missing

by Bill Clinton

Where to start with this book? Should I talk about how I don't believe that either James Patterson or Bill Clinton actually did much of the writing? Should I talk about how Bill Clinton is spending his retirement creating Bill Clinton fa...

A Court of Mist and Fury

by Sarah J. Maas

I thought this was pretty ok. I'm team Night Court. I really enjoy that Feyre is getting to have a hipster phase with the cool kids in a fancy Bohemian city. I dont even mind that she has all the super powers, I thought that would bug me...

The Infernal City

by Greg Keyes

I don't often do this, but I'm going to engage in a controversial DNF review. I'm fairly confident that being forced to read every word of the rest of it would only lower my score. I made it about half way through Part 1 of the audio boo...

Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback

Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback

by Unknown Author

I've read a few translations of Beowulf, and the only thing that's really missing from this one is the original language text. Ringler does a pretty good job of the translation itself. He includes very solid explanation and context as well.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

by Rebecca Wells

I'm neither a mother nor a daughter so take this with a grain of salt, I guess. Siddalee is a famous stage director who stages a hit play. She's interviewed for a New York Times article. When asked about her childhood she accidentally pr...

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