#Books #Mystery #ChildrensLiterature #AmericanLiterature #GenreLiterature #1922sAww, #KarlUrban canceled his upcoming appearance at #Comicpalooza in #Houston 🙁
https://www.comicpalooza.com/guests/2023-guests/#:~:text=Karl%20Urban
Still going to be a fun #MemorialDay weekend. Getting my (much less involved this year) #cosplay ready!
#TheBoys #ThorRagnarok #StarTrek #LOTR #AlmostHuman #Riddick #Dredd #JudgeDredd #Doom #Xena
#HoustonTX #HTX #PopCulture #con #convention #movies #TV #anime #comics #ComicBooks #gaming #GenreLiterature #SF #SciFi #fantasy #horror #thriller
#CBC's #Canada #Reads 2023 #CanadaReads2023 debates will take place March 27-30, 2023.
They will be hosted by #AliHassan and will be broadcast on #CBCRadioOne, #CBCTV, #CBCGem and on #CBCBooks.
Lots of #GenreFiction this year.
#Ducks, by #KateBeaton is a #GraphicNovel. #Hotline by #DimitriNasrallah is set in the 1980s, and makes use of memory, time periods, and elements of #magicrealism There are 2 #Novels that are #EcoFiction, a #SubGenre of #SpeculativeFiction - #ScienceFiction. They are #Greenwood by #MichaelChristie, and #StationEleven by #EmilyStJohnMandel. #MexicanGothic by #SilviaMorenoGarcia is a #Gothic #Horror novel. #GothicHorror.
#CanadianFiction has come a long way from the White Anglophone #NationalAngst and grim self-introspection #Realism that once haunted our #culturalPsyche.
#Genre #GenreLiterature #CanadianLiterature #CanadianNovels #Novel #Fiction
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2023-contenders-1.6716837
#HeidiFeek's version of #HeartbreakHotel, together with the video, turns the song into a #1950s #DriveInTheatre #Gothic #GhostStory full of brooding #Blues #Song #BluesMusic #Music #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #Genre #GenreFiction #GenreLiterature #PulpMagazine #WeirdTales #Ghosts #Haunting #Eerie
#HeidiFeek's Someday Somebody (is gonna hurt you) is a #FilmNoir #HardBoiled #PulpFiction #Blues #Song of #Betrayal, Revenge, and more #Revenge. A #Monochrome tale of #Suspense right out of the Bloody #Pulps that you won't get out of your mind/ear. #PulpMagazine #BlackandWhite #BluesMusic #Music #Genre #GenreFiction #GenreLiterature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4qnL2MNI8
Mad Hatters and March Hares
edited by #EllenDatlow
#TorBooks 2017
Took me quite awhile to complete this book, which says more about me than the book. There was a time when I could inhale a book, but now I tend to nibble-sniff at the pages. One of the reasons I decided to try the #PicturePromptBingo card, was because it was a prompt not a challenge, and it was very open to interpretation of choices.
This #Anthology provides an excellent assortment of tales that take inspiration from both of the Alice novels. There is a great range of creativity in both the use of Carroll's characters and settings. What I found missing, or at least limited, was the frivolity and whimsy that fills Carroll's creation.
The cover of the book features the following headline: “All-New Stories from the World of #LewisCarroll's #AliceInWonderland.” These #stories and #poetry, for the most part, look at Wonderland through the lens of the “real” world. As consequence, the reader will find serious #Fantasy tales, some of which are coloured with #Horror. The charm of #Wonderland's topsy-turvy logic has become darker, and the delightfully #Weird has become #Nightmarish.
A couple of the stories take place in a real world setting, and use references to Alice and Wonderland to express the #Protagonist's predicament and #Conflict.
Is this anthology a worthwhile read? The potential reader will find well written creative and thoughtful explorations of Wonderland and its inhabitants. They will be presented with protagonists facing problems of a fantastical and uncanny nature. But, if the reader is anticipating delightfully absurd tales full of whimsical humour, they will find the pickings rather thin.
Quality of #Writing: 5 out of 5.
#Creative use of source material: 5 out of 5
Range of #Narrative tone: 3.5 out of 5
#Book #BookReview #Genre #GenreFiction #genre #GenreLiterature #BookCover #CoverArt #Illustration
Of Bookish Things
Mark Gardner
