🎃 (3/3)

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I do wish we'd had more of the underground children throughout, it was a creepy idea I'd like to have seen more of, but overall I'd definitely recommend this book.

It's not a scary book, but I had fun reading it. I thought Sam was an interesting main character, and it's honestly refreshing to see a fat character in a horror novel who's treated like an actual person.

I really enjoy Kingfisher's contemporary horror novels. They definitely tend lighter with very likeable protagonists and a conversational, upbeat narrative voice.

It really is! It's one of those books where you can really feel how excited the author is to tell you all about their subject

This is one I would like to find a physical copy of. Skal's narration was good, but the book is so dense with information I definitely will have missed a lot.

Dracula is a fascinating case study for this. Both artistically, given how rooted the novel is in written communication, as well as in it's complicated history regarding copyright, which "Hollywood Gothic" explores in depth.

Still loved it on the reread. Did find out I've been mispronouncing Pachid in my head.

There were little bits of foreshadowing, and references to Bury Your Gays which I hadn't noticed on my first read, which was fun.

We were reading it for book club and I decided to give listening to it a try. I think I prefered the physical book, though Mara Wilson's narration was really good (if a little slow).

This is not a book I think I fully understood, but it's one I can't stop thinking about.

This book resists any concrete answers. When searching for information about previous residents we are given a dozen contradictory stories, dreams and reality bleed together with no clear lines. Even geography is unclear, with no names given for the places they moved from or to.

I liked this book. The Julie and James's (the two POV characters) relationship was interesting and uncomfortable. Two people who love eachother dearly, whilst making eachother deeply unhappy.

I learned a lot in this book about how they work as life forms and it really challenged ideas I had about concepts of thought and awareness and what those might mean when we're talking about something so different from animals.

Whilst it did have a slight "fungus can fix everything" energy I'm taking with a pitch of salt, I loved the clear enthusiasm for the subject I could feel in Sheldrake's writing.