New Moan

The leafy crowns of the vast wood spread out before me, swaying in the evening breeze as the last of the daylight shone weakly on the horizon. I was sure there was a special name for this time of day, but I couldn't think what it was just now.


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50 literature ideas you really need to know, 16

Genre

There are, currently, five popular fictional genres in full production: romance, science fiction and fantasy, horror, thriller and crime. But, Sutherland adds, Genres bend. Jacques Derrida's word for the melting of boundaries is "degenerescence."

Try fitting Jasper Fforde into just one of the above.

Fringe, episode 1.6

Gooification

When will I learn not to watch Fringe whilst eating?

Supernatural and Spooks have their horrors (just not quite so frequently, or vividly). Good characters and stories kept me watching, and does again here.

It's a very good story that makes you care so much about a few 'extras'.

The Bloody Chamber (and other stories), page 140

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

Nearly finished now. The Werewolf freaked me out as much as the cat in Neil Gaiman's Feeders and Eaters, which was lots. I'm glad they're short stories, not sure I could stay through a book. Beautiful but most macabre.

Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire

The humour creeps in.

Self-parody whispers at the edges of things.

And Neil Gaiman writes a story about a writer writing a story that isn’t the story the writer wants to write.

The Bloody Chamber (and other stories), page 74.5

I'm exactly halfway through this collection; reading the last paragraphs of The Tiger's Bride. They'll linger. Puss-in-Boots waits.

It's definitely odd, but not as weird as I'd thought. Too much Neil Gaiman perhaps.

This may, of course, all change.
That's the beauty of reviewing this way.