Starting Road Of Bones today!
Starting Episode Thirteen today! I've been excited for this one
Started The Luminous Dead last night and it's promising so far
Starting a new book soon!
Started Hummingbird Salamander last night
Starting Another 2001 today! Very excited to blast through this sequel
Started a new book last night ❤️
Time for a reread! I loved this book a lot when I read it a few years ago
And while I had assumed that ghost stories are one way to tell those stories that people don't want to hear otherwise, as it happens, they are just as often used to reinforce those blind spots.
Ghostland by Colin Dickey
Winchester herself had little documented guilt about the role of the rifle in American history, but we've projected blame on her nonetheless, as though we can quarantine such thoughts in the mind of someone long dead so the rest of us can go about our days unburdened...
Ghostland by Colin Dickey
The legend of Sarah Winchester depends on a cultural uneasiness to which we don't always like the admit. An uneasiness about women living alone, withdrawn from society, for one. An uneasiness about wealth and the way the superrich live among us. And, perhaps largest of all, an uneasiness about the gun that won the West and the violence white Americans carried out in the name of civilization.
Ghostland by Colin Dickey
If houses are supposed to be places of security, then most terrifying is the idea that they might go on forever, that they might be labyrinths.
Ghostland by Colin Dickey
The house is, in a way, a form of automatic writing, a stream of consciousness made spatial.
About the Winchester house (Ghostland by Colin Dickey)
The haunted house is precisely that which should be homey, should be welcoming -the place one lives inside -but which has somehow become emptied out of its true function. It is terrifying because it has lost its purpose yet stubbornly persists. Neither alive nor dead but undead, the haunted house is the thing in between.
Ghostland by Colin Dickey
We're drawn to [ghost stories] because the standard history often obscures as much as it reveals.
Ghostland by Colin Dickey
Got my AGDQ/Fangamer stuff in today
Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain.
Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink