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About Thistle

Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

Readathon: Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (audio)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Thistle

Good Omens is a humorous look at the apocalypse. It involves an angel, a demon, the Antichrist, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a children’s gang, a fortune-teller/Jezebel, a witch-finder association, a Satanic Order of Chattering Nuns, a Hell-hound, and … Continue reading →

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Readathon: Ghost Cat, by Beverly Butler

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Thistle

Annabel is spending the summer with her great-aunt and -uncle and a bunch of cousins she’s never met. She would rather be at home with her mother, and feels very out of place on the lonely Wisconsin farm. But soon … Continue reading →

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Readathon: A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Thistle

Nora’s very happy. Her husband has just gotten a better job with a higher salary, and soon she’ll be free of a debt she incurred many years ago (without her husband’s knowledge) to finance a trip south that saved her … Continue reading →

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Readathon: The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Thistle

Manfred is desperate for his only son to wed and carry the family lineage down in the Castle of Otranto. There is a prophecy that says that the Castle will return to its rightful owner when that owner is “too … Continue reading →

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Readathon: Amphigory Also, by Edward Gorey

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Thistle

This is the third collection of Gorey’s graphic short stories that I’ve read, and I actually think it might be the best of the three. I split it up a couple stories at a time all day during the Readathon … Continue reading →

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The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Thistle

This is my third read by Hammett and probably my favorite. It’s a perfect detective story. I never suspected the actual criminal beforehand, despite having seen the movie a few years back (it’s also equally funny). (Shows how much I … Continue reading →

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Gothic Charm School, by Jillian Venters

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Thistle

Gothic Charm School is a nonfiction book about goth culture and manners. Jillian Venters, aka “the Lady of the Manners,” takes us through a ton of different aspects of what it means (and doesn’t mean) to be a goth. For … Continue reading →

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Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Maurier

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Thistle

When Mary Yellan’s parents die, she must move up north to the moorlands to live with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss at Jamaica Inn. When she gets there, though, she finds that her aunt is no longer the happy … Continue reading →

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Queer Questions Straight Talk, by Abby Dees

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Thistle

Queer Questions Straight Talk is subtitled “108 frank & provocative questions it’s OK to ask your lesbian, gay or bisexual loved one.” That pretty much sums up what this book is about. There is some introductory material and then the … Continue reading →

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Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Thistle

My second Christie was just as fun as my first and it balanced out in terms of which book was better. This had less info-dump at the end than And Then There Were None, but it also relied more heavily … Continue reading →

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