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Old 10-18-2017, 02:59 PM   #26490
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I finally got around to reading A Memory of Light, the 14th and final volume of The Wheel of Time. It took me about 21 years to get to this point.

I finished a few of those "I should read that someday" books over the summer: Jane Eyre, Brideshead Revisited, and Being There by Jerzy Kosinski. I liked them all, maybe Brideshead a little more than the others.

For October I'm listening to The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle. A ghost story that was made into a 1944 movie with Ray Milland.

Valancourt books just released Blackwater: The Complete Saga by Michael McDowell. It's an omnibus version of McDowell's southern gothic/horror series, The Flood, The Levee, The House, The War, The Fortune, and Rain. It's as if The Shadow over Innsmouth were written as a generational family saga and set in rural Alabama. The horror takes a backseat to the Caskey family story. The individual books were less than 200 pages each so it's not as long as you might think. I'll be re-reading that next.

Also up is Malpertuis a surrealistic horror/fantasy by Jean Ray, the Flemish Edgar Allen Poe.

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