dr_not_sam
@thereadingrambler.bsky.social
The literary. The feline. The macabre.
English professor. Book reviewer. Editor.
https://linktr.ee/thereadingrambler
English professor. Book reviewer. Editor.
https://linktr.ee/thereadingrambler
#newreview of #Leech by Hiron Ennes. I found the first half of the book pretty compelling, but I was ultimately a bit disappointed by the ending. The author opened up some interesting conversations about this sub-genre, but they relied on a cliche ending. {🩸🪐📚}
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Samantha Baugus's review of Leech
3/5: I am of two minds about Leech. On the one hand, the book explores some classic horror/sci-fi tropes (body-snatching, hive mind, and contagion) from a different perspective; Ennes studies infectio...
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March 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#newreview of #Leech by Hiron Ennes. I found the first half of the book pretty compelling, but I was ultimately a bit disappointed by the ending. The author opened up some interesting conversations about this sub-genre, but they relied on a cliche ending. {🩸🪐📚}
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Just a first round interview today #AcademicSky. Wish me luck!
March 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just a first round interview today #AcademicSky. Wish me luck!
One of my favorite presses!! Check them out!
SPLIT SCREAM sale through the weekend🖤☠️
Grab the latest volume from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L.Mahler; while you're there, all previous volumes of SPLIT SCREAM are 20% off print and 50% off eBook!
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Grab the latest volume from @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L.Mahler; while you're there, all previous volumes of SPLIT SCREAM are 20% off print and 50% off eBook!
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
March 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of my favorite presses!! Check them out!
Just posted my review of The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterrica: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#horrorbooks #bookreview #recentreads #booksky #horrorsky
#horrorbooks #bookreview #recentreads #booksky #horrorsky
March 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Just posted my review of The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterrica: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#horrorbooks #bookreview #recentreads #booksky #horrorsky
#horrorbooks #bookreview #recentreads #booksky #horrorsky
#currentlyreading Leech by Hiron Ennes and what an absolutely WILD read thus far. Very creepy and weird. I’m a big fan of body horror and this is a fascinating take on that. It’s also an interesting blend of different genre conventions. {📚💙🩸🪐}
March 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#currentlyreading Leech by Hiron Ennes and what an absolutely WILD read thus far. Very creepy and weird. I’m a big fan of body horror and this is a fascinating take on that. It’s also an interesting blend of different genre conventions. {📚💙🩸🪐}
I recently alphabetized by entire library by author's last name, and I have books by authors from every letter of the alphabet EXCEPT Q and X. So, does anyone have any Q or X recs? I read science fiction, horror, non-fiction, and poetry!
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March 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I recently alphabetized by entire library by author's last name, and I have books by authors from every letter of the alphabet EXCEPT Q and X. So, does anyone have any Q or X recs? I read science fiction, horror, non-fiction, and poetry!
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This was the most uplifting thing I’ve read in awhile
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This was the most uplifting thing I’ve read in awhile
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All creatures have a right to life.
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisi...
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisi...
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
March 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
All creatures have a right to life.
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisi...
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisi...
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
Really enjoying the Origins of Desire in Orchids Fens from @stelliform.press feels like another absolute banger. #smallpress
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March 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Really enjoying the Origins of Desire in Orchids Fens from @stelliform.press feels like another absolute banger. #smallpress
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Shout-out to games that can and sometimes do kill you during the tutorial, the ultimate realism
March 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Shout-out to games that can and sometimes do kill you during the tutorial, the ultimate realism
For anyone who wants to read The Unworthy by Augustine Bazterrica CW for animal death. Did NOT see that one coming 😭 💙📚🩸
March 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
For anyone who wants to read The Unworthy by Augustine Bazterrica CW for animal death. Did NOT see that one coming 😭 💙📚🩸
I am maybe spiraling into absolutely out of pocket theories about what is happening in #willtobattle. Can’t stop won’t stop. This book just demands insanity. 💙📚🪐
March 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I am maybe spiraling into absolutely out of pocket theories about what is happening in #willtobattle. Can’t stop won’t stop. This book just demands insanity. 💙📚🪐
Eeeeeeek. My manuscript goes to the publisher tomorrow. #academicsky
March 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Eeeeeeek. My manuscript goes to the publisher tomorrow. #academicsky
New #bookreview on Goodreads. Picked up an older and famous book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. 💙📚💡 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Samantha Baugus's review of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
4/5: I initially wanted to give this book three stars rather than four because Berendt emerged, to me, as a dishonest, or at least myopic, writer. I ended up settling on four because I started looking...
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March 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New #bookreview on Goodreads. Picked up an older and famous book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. 💙📚💡 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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All creatures have a right to life.
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
March 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
All creatures have a right to life.
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
Going to post one of these every day as a reminder.
More at bit.ly/world-revisited
#nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics #sentience
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📚💙 It's chaos out there 🪐📚
March 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
📚💙 It's chaos out there 🪐📚
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Hey, this is your regular reminder that “capitalism” does not mean “people trying to make a buck to survive in this economy.”
“Capitalism” means that the means of making a buck, and the decisions about who gets to do it, are all owned by conglomerates rather than the workers.
“Capitalism” means that the means of making a buck, and the decisions about who gets to do it, are all owned by conglomerates rather than the workers.
March 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hey, this is your regular reminder that “capitalism” does not mean “people trying to make a buck to survive in this economy.”
“Capitalism” means that the means of making a buck, and the decisions about who gets to do it, are all owned by conglomerates rather than the workers.
“Capitalism” means that the means of making a buck, and the decisions about who gets to do it, are all owned by conglomerates rather than the workers.
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Democrats keep acting like they’re playing chess (badly) against the GOP.
Listen, the GOP is not playing chess. They have flipped the board and are taking a blowtorch to it.
Meanwhile, Dems are like, “Well, a pawn can only move this way, so I guess we’re stuck.”
Listen, the GOP is not playing chess. They have flipped the board and are taking a blowtorch to it.
Meanwhile, Dems are like, “Well, a pawn can only move this way, so I guess we’re stuck.”
March 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Democrats keep acting like they’re playing chess (badly) against the GOP.
Listen, the GOP is not playing chess. They have flipped the board and are taking a blowtorch to it.
Meanwhile, Dems are like, “Well, a pawn can only move this way, so I guess we’re stuck.”
Listen, the GOP is not playing chess. They have flipped the board and are taking a blowtorch to it.
Meanwhile, Dems are like, “Well, a pawn can only move this way, so I guess we’re stuck.”
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It continues to both frustrate and confuse me that people don't see that being a bigot isn't ever resistance, it is only ever collaboration. They want you to do that. They don't care if you do it to them, you fight for their side every time you do.
1. You know, Pam Bondi, as an example, is not going to see or care if all y'all are sexist about her in my comments, but I will, and I'll think less of you. When I ask you not to be sexist/racist/ableist, etc in my comments, I'm not telling you not to resist. Just don't be shitty in my comments.
Saying you'd like to see the members of the current administration suffer is the meekest little gesture of resistance. I certainly don't feel like appeasing anybody. Let's not be so quick to self-censor and cave in to accepting what's going on. Maybe they can be boiled in oil, medieval style.
March 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It continues to both frustrate and confuse me that people don't see that being a bigot isn't ever resistance, it is only ever collaboration. They want you to do that. They don't care if you do it to them, you fight for their side every time you do.
Mycroft. Buddy. You don’t have to cry over EVERYTHING. #terraignota #willtobattle 💙📚🪐
March 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Mycroft. Buddy. You don’t have to cry over EVERYTHING. #terraignota #willtobattle 💙📚🪐
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I wish we could discuss games (and media, really) without resorting to black and white rhetoric
Maybe I'm too fussy about words but I think it would fix so much if people stopped equating "I don't like X about game" to "game is garbage"
or "you dislike X about game, so you hate game and me"
Maybe I'm too fussy about words but I think it would fix so much if people stopped equating "I don't like X about game" to "game is garbage"
or "you dislike X about game, so you hate game and me"
March 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I wish we could discuss games (and media, really) without resorting to black and white rhetoric
Maybe I'm too fussy about words but I think it would fix so much if people stopped equating "I don't like X about game" to "game is garbage"
or "you dislike X about game, so you hate game and me"
Maybe I'm too fussy about words but I think it would fix so much if people stopped equating "I don't like X about game" to "game is garbage"
or "you dislike X about game, so you hate game and me"
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"I'm not the bad guy," he said.
"But why must there be a bad guy at all?" the large dog asked. "Why, instead of debating the identity of this 'bad guy,' are we not attempting to solve the underlying problem?"
#amwriting #amwritingfantasy
"But why must there be a bad guy at all?" the large dog asked. "Why, instead of debating the identity of this 'bad guy,' are we not attempting to solve the underlying problem?"
#amwriting #amwritingfantasy
March 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"I'm not the bad guy," he said.
"But why must there be a bad guy at all?" the large dog asked. "Why, instead of debating the identity of this 'bad guy,' are we not attempting to solve the underlying problem?"
#amwriting #amwritingfantasy
"But why must there be a bad guy at all?" the large dog asked. "Why, instead of debating the identity of this 'bad guy,' are we not attempting to solve the underlying problem?"
#amwriting #amwritingfantasy
Most books: oh damn it’s an unreliable narrator!! Sneaky sneaky
This book: so reader you shouldnt trust me im literally making things up 🫶😌💕
This book: so reader you shouldnt trust me im literally making things up 🫶😌💕
March 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Most books: oh damn it’s an unreliable narrator!! Sneaky sneaky
This book: so reader you shouldnt trust me im literally making things up 🫶😌💕
This book: so reader you shouldnt trust me im literally making things up 🫶😌💕