Memage and books...
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shadowkatMemage:
15. Sci-fi and fantasy (books/TV/film), yes or no?
Yes. All of the both. My favorite genre is sci-fantasy, fantasy and sci-fi. (I'm online because I can't find anyone offline who loves it.)
16. Do you know how to knit? Even if you don’t – do you own anything hand-knitted?
Yes. I suck at it - because I can't count to save my life. But I've knitted a blanket, a few clumsy scarves, and a few clumsy hats. I don't follow patterns - they don't make any sense to me. I can't read them. I just play.
I'm an intuitive artist.
And yes, I own knitted items, two throws, one by me, one by my church, and several scarves and hats.
17. Have you ever seen a ventriloquist act?
In person? I don't know. On TV, yes.
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Books
Finished We Used to Live Here by...Marcus Kilewer
It reminded me a lot of Jordan Peele's horror films - specifically "Us". Also Shutter Island, The Prisoner, and various films and books dealing with the concept of altered realities, or parallel realities. It's also a...book that will thrill folks who like puzzles and minute, seemingly random details. (It's a nerdy book.) I was bored by it for the most part, and had difficulty understanding why folks loved it.
It's okay. A bit of a mind bender that haunted me long afterwards. I didn't find it to be the page-turner a lot of folks stated in their reviews online. Kind of plodding in places, in part because I didn't like the protagonist - who got on my nerves. It's told in first person distant, except for various snippets throughout - that include a blue print of the house, a property listing, an add for a dog, transcript of an interrogation, a documentary/movie transcript of one, etc. This is in different type from the story, which is told in Eve (the protagonist's perspective).
Set-up? Two women (Eve and Charlie) have purchased a house with the intent to fix it up and flip it. While one (Charlie) is out getting beer and wine, and running errands, a family of five shows up to visit the house. They are moving across country, and Thomas (the father) wants to show his family the house they used to live in. After this point, creepy things start to happen, and Eve begins to wonder if the house, Thomas or something is messing with her.
I didn't find it all that scary, disconcerting, yes, scary no. Also a bit slow in places. It would have helped if I cared about the characters.
Someone asked Stephen King how to write a good horror tale. King responded, get your reader to care about your characters. I spent most of the novel wanting to smack or shake Eve, and Charlie. I found it to be more frustrating than scary. But it apparently scared the heck out of a lot of folks, and a lot of people couldn't quite figure it out, or had lots of unanswered questions.
I've read and seen too many things about parallel universes and realities, so I figured it out halfway through. I know the trope well.
Now I'm reading a science fiction novel - "Rules of Redemption by T. A. White". So far so good - the protagonist, Kira, is scavenging alien war vessels for parts, with her drone companion, Jin. I'm not sure where it goes from there - as of yet.
And on audio - "Sanctuary" - Roman focused novel by Illona Andrews in the world of Kate Daniels. It's about a dark volv priest, with a lot of Eastern European mythology.
I've decided to break from Horror for a bit - I'm anxious enough at the moment, don't require help. Although the last two horror novels I read, had massive pacing issues, not helped by unlikable characters. I got irritated and bored by both. So dumping that genre and jumping back into urban fantasy and science fiction.
15. Sci-fi and fantasy (books/TV/film), yes or no?
Yes. All of the both. My favorite genre is sci-fantasy, fantasy and sci-fi. (I'm online because I can't find anyone offline who loves it.)
16. Do you know how to knit? Even if you don’t – do you own anything hand-knitted?
Yes. I suck at it - because I can't count to save my life. But I've knitted a blanket, a few clumsy scarves, and a few clumsy hats. I don't follow patterns - they don't make any sense to me. I can't read them. I just play.
I'm an intuitive artist.
And yes, I own knitted items, two throws, one by me, one by my church, and several scarves and hats.
17. Have you ever seen a ventriloquist act?
In person? I don't know. On TV, yes.
****
Books
Finished We Used to Live Here by...Marcus Kilewer
It reminded me a lot of Jordan Peele's horror films - specifically "Us". Also Shutter Island, The Prisoner, and various films and books dealing with the concept of altered realities, or parallel realities. It's also a...book that will thrill folks who like puzzles and minute, seemingly random details. (It's a nerdy book.) I was bored by it for the most part, and had difficulty understanding why folks loved it.
It's okay. A bit of a mind bender that haunted me long afterwards. I didn't find it to be the page-turner a lot of folks stated in their reviews online. Kind of plodding in places, in part because I didn't like the protagonist - who got on my nerves. It's told in first person distant, except for various snippets throughout - that include a blue print of the house, a property listing, an add for a dog, transcript of an interrogation, a documentary/movie transcript of one, etc. This is in different type from the story, which is told in Eve (the protagonist's perspective).
Set-up? Two women (Eve and Charlie) have purchased a house with the intent to fix it up and flip it. While one (Charlie) is out getting beer and wine, and running errands, a family of five shows up to visit the house. They are moving across country, and Thomas (the father) wants to show his family the house they used to live in. After this point, creepy things start to happen, and Eve begins to wonder if the house, Thomas or something is messing with her.
I didn't find it all that scary, disconcerting, yes, scary no. Also a bit slow in places. It would have helped if I cared about the characters.
Someone asked Stephen King how to write a good horror tale. King responded, get your reader to care about your characters. I spent most of the novel wanting to smack or shake Eve, and Charlie. I found it to be more frustrating than scary. But it apparently scared the heck out of a lot of folks, and a lot of people couldn't quite figure it out, or had lots of unanswered questions.
I've read and seen too many things about parallel universes and realities, so I figured it out halfway through. I know the trope well.
Now I'm reading a science fiction novel - "Rules of Redemption by T. A. White". So far so good - the protagonist, Kira, is scavenging alien war vessels for parts, with her drone companion, Jin. I'm not sure where it goes from there - as of yet.
And on audio - "Sanctuary" - Roman focused novel by Illona Andrews in the world of Kate Daniels. It's about a dark volv priest, with a lot of Eastern European mythology.
I've decided to break from Horror for a bit - I'm anxious enough at the moment, don't require help. Although the last two horror novels I read, had massive pacing issues, not helped by unlikable characters. I got irritated and bored by both. So dumping that genre and jumping back into urban fantasy and science fiction.