Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep (African Immortals series Book 1) (spotted by @GalatFemme), over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lrliofqmd226
#KindleBookGiveaway #TananariveDue #MySoulToKeep #AfricanImmortals
Bombo Headland Geological Site
In this post: The crashing seas and imposing rock columns at Bombo Headland Geological Site, south of Sydney on Australia’s east coast
This is the blog of Mark Wordsworm, the travelling worm. I’m a 40-year-old bookmark (give or take a few years) and I proudly boast my own Hallmark serial number, 95 HBM 80-1. You’ll probably want to read all about me and my Travelling Companion (the TC).
Today’s travel notes
This worm has crawled past Bombo Headland several times, on past journeys heading south out of Sydney. Never before have I stopped to see what goes on in the area. A few days ago, me and the TC detoured off the beaten track (namely, the M1) to spend a couple of nights in Wollongong. During our stay, we took the small coastal roads down to Kiama, and on the way we stopped to see the headland.
The book I’m in
The Between by Tananarive Due. The TC has only recently discovered this amazing author. Already, we’re more than half way into our second book of hers, and the TC has bought four more. Count ’em, four! Tananarive Due writes beautifully-composed horror. Get into one of her books as soon as you can.
Travel tips
Take a detour from the highways whenever time allows.
The photos
Me at Bombo Beach:
A short walk from the beach, the waves churn and crash between the rock formations at Bombo Headland Geological Site:
A still photo of the same spot captures the watery turmoil:
The tall, squared-off columns of rock are imposing. The rocky ground beneath the rocks is quite bare, and glares in the hard sunlight. Combined with the churning seas, the effect is a little threatening. Definitely eery.
The columns are made of basalt and have a distinctive hexagonal shape, formed during volcanic eruptions 270 million years ago. Basalt is a hard igneous rock that’s produced when lava cools rapidly.
If you walk around behind the rock towers, the scene is more tranquil. A shallow pool lies quiet in the sunlight:
The occasional wave bounces high enough to breach the gap in the rocks and refresh the pool:
The TC, bless her slightly wet cotton socks, posed in front of another gap. She waited patiently for that Internet-favourite shot with the waves crashing behind her:
Here’s the same Internet-famous spot, without the TC this time:
That’s all for today, folks
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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -
A few books that I'll be reading during March, Women's History Month, and Irish-American Heritage Month.
#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #lynhejinian #mylife #tananarivedue #thegoodhouse #jamesjoyce #aportraitoftheartistasayoungman #roddydoyle #paddyclarkehahaha #verabrosgol #anyasghost #brianrichardson #apoeticsofplot
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝗲 -
She's been on my list too long! Time to enjoy a good horror tale, and so far the updated Gothic elements are well in place for terrible "fun."
Ooh, this is tonight!
Featuring:
#StephenKing #JoeHill #BryanFuller
#MikeFlanagan #StephenGrahamJones
#TananariveDue #PaulTremblay
#CynthiaPelayo #GabinoIglesias
#ScottDerickson #VictorLaValle #AlmaKatsu
#DonMancini
📚 Uncanny Magazine Issue 60 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, and Michi Trota: Standout stories by Eddie Robson, Tananarive Due, M. M. Olivas, and Jo Miles. …
Read the rest: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2024/09/20/%f0%9f%93%9a-uncanny-magazine-issue-60-edited-by-lynne-m-thomas-michael-damian-thomas-and-michi-trota/ (#EddieRobson #JoMiles #LynneMThomas #MMOlivas #MichaelDamianThomas #MichiTrota #TananariveDue #Uncanny)
I've fallen behind in my horror writers. I know Due's work fairly well, but have not read these others. Has anyone else? Any of these you recommend?
#horror #bookrecommendations #TananariveDue #victorlavalle #ChuckWendig #gradyhendrix #ChuckTingle #StephenGrahamJones
I think I might finish my current read just in time for my Jolabokaflod book, Legends and Lattes.
This book, Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory, is absolutely extraordinary. If you enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird, Toni Morrison’s novels, Jordan Peele movies, or Black Horror, this is essential reading and it won’t disappoint. Highest recommendation!
#bookstodon #speculativefiction #blackhorror #supernaturalfiction #ghoststories #tananarivedue
@welltemperedwriter @bookstodon Adding to my list, thank you. Have you read The Good House? I loved that. #books #TananariveDue #Reading
Stayed up late last night finishing #TheReformatory by #TananariveDue. Whew, what a ride. Do recommend. #amreading @bookstodon
Living with a book over days and weeks builds a relationship with the author, her ideas and patterns, -- in the end the relationship continues, hopefully, and increases the perceptivity of the reader long after the last pages are visited. Which books call you back to their pages? #reading #books #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #writers #TananariveDue #ShirinEbadi
Via @SakuraNoSeirei
#7books to know me better
Carpe Jugulum by #TerryPratchett
My Soul To Keep by #TananariveDue
#Dracula by #BramStoker
Kindred by #OctaviaButler
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Unhallowed Graves by #NuzoOnoh
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by #MRJames
Next on up the #TBR: #TheGoodHouse by #TananariveDue.
#JordanPeele talks black #horror in trailer for documentary 'Horror Noire'
#TananariveDue comments, "Horror Noire is about the history of black horror #films, but it’s also a testament to the power of representation and how horror is such a visceral way to fight racial #trauma: our real pain and fear, but from a safer distance — while we get stronger."
https://ew.com/trailers/2019/01/07/horror-noire-trailer-jordan-peele-documentary/
