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SarahAnneDipity

SarahAnneDipity@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years ago

Sci Fi, fantasy, horror, suspense, classic books, ancient lot. Russian lit (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol).

Doesn't even have Sega. She's such a troglodyte. She/her.

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SarahAnneDipity's books

Anthony Horowitz: Magpie Murders (Hardcover, 2017, Harper)

Still reading. It's kind of a slog. I enjoy parts of it, but I'm waiting to get through to the meta part I was told about. Reading the entire book-within-a-book to get to the other part of the story seems like a high bar.

Michael Shea: Polyphemus (1987, Arkham House Publishers) No rating

After watching "The Autopsy" (episode 3 of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix), I want to read the original short story. And anything else like it.

T. Kingfisher, .: The Hollow Places (2020)

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and …

Solid Fantasy/Sci-Fi Horror

I have one or two quibbles here and there (there was foreshadowing of one particular thing that was heavy-handed enough to eventually start get irritated at the protagonist for not noticing), but on the whole this was incredibly enjoyable, and I immediately recommended to my mom, who got hooked on T. Kingfisher books after that.