Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry
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Agbabi, Armitage, Burnside, Duffy, Dunmore, Fanthorpe, Heaney, Motion, Nagra, O'Brien and more Poems...
Versusyours (757 KP) rated Tales of Halloween (2015) in Movies
Nov 4, 2019 (Updated Nov 4, 2019)
There is enough in the collection to make you look out at the dark corners of your room a little bit more nervously and I will never look at a pumpkin the same way again.
A Basic Music Library: Essential Scores and Sound Recordings: World Music: Volume 2
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Intended to offer suggestions for anyone, regardless of musical training or experience, who is...
Undeleted Scenes
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*Undeleted Scenes presents a decade's worth of shorter works from indie comics legend Jeffrey Brown....
David McK (3505 KP) rated Predator: If It Bleeds in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Both as sci-fi anthologies; both are based around their respective properties.
I read the latter first, and (truth be told) wasn't overly impressed: while there were some good stories amongst those included, none really stood out all that much.
As a result, I put off reading this until I worked my way through some 'proper' novels, and only came back to this relatively recently.
Thankfully, of the two anthologies, I found this to be the better (despite a somewhat ropey start). I think that may be due to the central conceit of the Predators: as (effectively) alien Big Game hunters, that allows these stories to be set at any point throughout human history, not 'tied down' to the future as the Alien stories are.
That's a concept put into full use in this, with stories that run the gamut from the traditional sci-fi setting of the future, to the American Civil War, to the Wild West, to feudal Japan, to present-day Third World countries and to pretty much every point in-between!
Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada
Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli
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This collection of essays focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the...
Cori June (3033 KP) rated Strange Brew in Books
Mar 27, 2019
Faith Hunter's Signatures of the Dead comes before the series starts. It gives fairly good background info as well as, clarify some referances made in the books. Patricia Briggs's "Seeing Eye" also hapends to characters that are in a book of the Alpha & Omega series but doesn't hold spoilers just gives the universe it ia set in more depth. Jim Butcher... Well nothing goes easy for Dreaden not even getting a beer.
McSweeney's Issue 42
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Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an...
McSweeney's Issue 43
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Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an...