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Reading a Thousand Lives
Reading a Thousand Lives rated it 12 years ago
Remember Why You Fear Me is a collection of sophisticated and wonderfully bizarre tales. Robert Shearman has the ability to weave and bend reality meshing horrifying fantasies into a mundane backdrop creating something beautiful and simultaneously ugly.Its a rare day that I come across a book that f...
Bob @ Beauty in Ruins
Bob @ Beauty in Ruins rated it 12 years ago
Edited by Jonathan Oliver, Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane brings together a wide (and surprising) variety of authors from across the world, and across the genre shelves. Advertised as a "perfect read for Hallowe’en and the long autumn evenings ahead," it went right to the top of the ...
Thief of Camorr
Thief of Camorr rated it 13 years ago
Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team. To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the A...
SandyQ
SandyQ rated it 13 years ago
Like any anthology, some stories I really liked, others not so much - hence the 3 stars as a middle ground. However, I do think that many of the stories that I didn't much like were a question of the type of fiction I like, not that they were poorly written. Just not my type of story. Overall, I'...
dearmfield
dearmfield rated it 13 years ago
Tidal Forces: play your cards a bizarre tale of two lesbian lovers. Dreams coming true, shadows lurking. Caitlin Kiernan will Peel your eyes over to look for the galaxy in them. Old Habits by Nalo Hopkinson six million ways to die choose one. A mall worker struts throughout the mall without bumping ...
SJane
SJane rated it 15 years ago
This is an entertaining collection of stories, which above all deal with mortality. Most of them I'd classify as fantasy since they bend reality a good bit. The first story in the book, "Mortal Coil," which was one of my favorites, was published in an anthology of horror stories.The beginnings were...
Avid Reader
Avid Reader rated it 16 years ago
Chimes of Midnight is one of the best Big Finish audios I've listened to thus far. I enjoyed the way Shearman took the cozy mystery trope and turned it on its head.Positives:*I truly enjoyed Charley in this audio. Though I'd heard a couple of the Eight/Charley audios previously, I was never attached...
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