Maybe it's a 'me problem' but I found this wildly confusing. I sort of muddled my way through to the end, and just about have an idea of what happened, but it was a difficult path to get there.
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pdotb finished reading Circles of Stone by Katy Soar
Circles of Stone by Katy Soar
There was no sleep for him that night; he fancied he had seen the stone – which, as you know, …
pdotb started reading The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, Emma McAvoy
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and …
pdotb finished reading Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or …
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely …
Charming as were all Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and charming even as were the works of all her imitators, it was not in them perhaps that human nature, at least in the midland counties of England, was to be looked for. Of the Alps and Pyrenees, with their pine forests and their vices, they might give a faithful delineation; and Italy, Switzerland, and the South of France, might be as fruitful in horrors as they were there represented. Catherine dared not doubt beyond her own country, and even of that, if hard pressed, would have yielded the northern and western extremities.
— Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen (45%)
Austen on top form!
pdotb finished reading Queer Gothic by Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Queer Gothic by Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory’s intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness …
pdotb started reading Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or …
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Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the …
pdotb started reading Circles of Stone by Katy Soar
Circles of Stone by Katy Soar
There was no sleep for him that night; he fancied he had seen the stone – which, as you know, …
pdotb finished reading After Savagery by Hamid Dabashi
After Savagery by Hamid Dabashi
Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of …
pdotb started reading Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the …
pdotb started reading Queer Gothic by Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Queer Gothic by Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory’s intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness …
pdotb started reading After Savagery by Hamid Dabashi
After Savagery by Hamid Dabashi
Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of …