Shannon

thinking about the radio adaptation of this today and how vincent price and claude rains sound MARRIED married in it <3

if mimi weren't so goddam insufferable i would've liked this a lot better :/ it had everything else that i could've wanted but...well. have to have a protagonist that doesn't understand human emotion until the last 2 pages, i guess

unfortunately loses points for just...being the back half of the movie and having none of the emotional pull of the front half but the original play does predate the film by a year so

feels a bit weird to rate a cookbook so i'm...not going to do that

instead i will say that this was a goddamn delight to read and the photos at the end are simultaneously horrifying (mentally i was running some james lileks-style narration) and adorable (the cucumber crocodile!! precious!!)

reread: feel like pure shit just want vincent price back x

look, sometimes you just have to keep rereading a particular book because you're feeling stinky, it's okay

I'M IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION

P R E C I O U S

at the start this read on the younger side of ya which is fine but now? after finishing it? let's just say i'm uncomfy and will be thinking about that damn cat story for a while

you could read this book, small and easy as it is with some nice art choices, or you could follow the grandiloquent word of the day facebook page and get more bang for your buck (like a longer etymology of the word or phrase in question)

4.75 - that_part_in_the_heathers_musical_at_the_beginning_of_fight_for_me_when_they_sing_HOLY_SHIT_over_and_over.mp3

WHY did no one put this in my hands sooner

patrick ness: releases a book
me, picking it up from the library: just fuck me up

i'm emotionally compromised at 11 am and kent is the Best Boy

this gives me the same feeling as speak does...which is to say: good

while i could've done without a lot of the repetition and some of the odd syntax, i do NOT understand why the end is so disliked........it's realistic! not every ghost story has to end the same way (i.e. in some big supernatural showdown with the heroes winning 100% or in them losing completely)! sometimes they can just End and that's okay!

i am however fondly wishing the heteros well for once

was this completely inane? absolutely. did i have a great time? oh god yes. big ol bara titties as far as the eye can see

i wanted so much to like this more than i did :/ the characters being terrible people is something i can handle but there was just Something about how this teetered between overwritten and not written well enough that's really offputting

4.5 stars - i'm emotionally devastated now so that's fun!

hi i'm emotionally compromised but my gay little heart is so happy

4.75

man, usually anthologies are a bit hit-or-miss for me, but this was solid

EXTREMELY late review since i just remembered i read this, but...this just wasn't for me. felt like it was trying to do too much and we didn't really get to connect with any of the characters but i really really liked the concept :/

4.75 - this was?? really good?? similar vibes to spin but way less hand-hold-y and a lot less focus on the violence

(show me where sadie is an unlikeable character. show me where she's anything but a grieving teen whose grief takes an incredibly reasonable shape and motivation.)

me, reading this, every time i see tomie: WHAT ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU?

i have yet to watch the movie (movies? i have no clue) but i'm either gonna love it or hate it or take it at face value

anyway junji ito is a genius and i love him

4.75 - A U G H now i need to reread the bartimaeus series because i love having my heart curbstomped

4.75 - of particular interest to me was the biographical essay, but i would've loved to see more annotations for the more adult-geared tales