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At the Kingston library, we have a display wall, where we try to put up books that go with a monthly theme, or an event we're promoting, or a current holiday.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what the current theme is supposed to be. Here are the books that we have up:

Organic Gardening for Dummies
The Making of a Mother
Touching the Void
Eyewitness Travel: Sicily
Are You My Mother?
Raw Food Real World
Mommy Calls Me Monkeypantsa

It's a bit like someone put up a Mother's Day display and then some of the books got checked out, so someone decided to do a display on gardening and food preparation, and then those books went and someone decided to put up a display on adventurous travel.

The overall effect is really quite odd.

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Congratulation, Richard Yancey, you have succeeded in totally icking me out.

So, I am still reading The Monstrumologist. Since my last posting on this book, we have had a mysterious and cryptic diary, a crumbling and terrifying insane asylum, and a flashback to a ship full of sailors trapped at sea with a monster.* Seriously, if we end up going to the Arctic/Antarctica, this book will contain everything I love in pulpy horror.

And then, ( spoilers and a squick warning. seriously icky. )

::shudders::

I'm honestly fairly impressed. The ick is not my favorite kind of horror, but when it's done well and built up to well, it's pretty awesome.








*It also contained a rather regrettable flashback prior to the ship, where the sailors were buying the monsters from the king of an African tribe who was, of course, using the monsters for horrific ritual sacrifice. So, apparently we're doing the bad points of pulpy horror as well. There aren't any women who aren't evil or dead yet, either. ::sigh::