Chris McLaren☢ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I pulled my trusty Penguin Pocket Library Byron out of my backpack—I had been carrying it all over Europe waiting for a chance to pull it out on a train and impress some cute fellow traveler—and read the entirety of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. 4/8 https://t.co/V0hCAttxNb

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Friday night's reading: Going to start on Stephanie McCarter's new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. https://t.co/cPQ2ZPQKkD

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Well, Polk's EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END is a lovely little gem of a book, isn't it?

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Fun to watch Gwendolyn's excitement when she's talking about her love of Angela Carter. (Although The Midnight Society has so completely colonized my head, that as she was talking, I was imagining a response from Midnight Society Carter.) https://t.co/kimTi4zhBN

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"Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick, is recreated in a world where Captain Ahab and his crew search for a Great White Dragon." Wait, this actually happened, and somehow I never heard about it? And Vinnie Jones is in it? You've gotta be shitting me. And yet... https://t.co/DWbSIGcoTV

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@David_Moscrop Angela Slatter's ALL THE MURMURING BONES is probably the best gothic... well, arguably horror, but I think probably more gothic dark fantasy. So well written, so fresh while still working with many gothic tropes. Locus review: https://t.co/0aP58h6cWq

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I read John Crowley's version of "The Chemical Wedding: by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae in a New Version" when @smallbeerpress put it out. I enjoyed it from several different angles.

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Which made #13, Saki's "Tobermory", the Myanmar selection, a welcome pleasure. I hadn't read this before, but I quite liked it. I'm a cat guy, and even so, this is 100% what would happen if cats could talk. I did love the way the humans went 0-to-murder in 10s.

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I recently read the columns collected in Selected Cronicas (trans. by Giovanni Pontiero)— around 300 pages. This new volume (trans. by Margaret Jull Costa) is the complete set, at ~800 pages. Am I going to drop the money for the new volume? #twowolves https://t.co/LmG9n7Ajqj

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@David_Moscrop And for SF Horror, the first thing that always pops to mind is Peter Watts' incredible BLINDSIGHT. https://t.co/bZgvPfkLN5