protean depravity

Don't miss the grand season finale of Ugress livestream - this Thursday, December 17th, live 8pm CET on Youtube , Twitch or Facebook . What has Gisle prepared for us this time? I hear there will be some mad cybership experiments, battle houseplant duets and multiple vintage competition winner requests. The streaming starts as usual around 30 minutes before 7:30pm on Youtube just in case you want to hang around or chat, and the show starts at about 8:00pm. Thank Gisle for providing a little light in this dark winter 2020, see you there!

So having talked to Caro from Otherland this morning who is preparing the store's Christmas recommendations and bumping almost everywhere into the 'best of's and 'worst of's of this worst year of all, inspired me to make my own end of the year list with the books I liked best. At first I came up with a draft of runners-up; but then again, I thought I already know which books will win. Seeing no need to pretend that I have gone through an intense elimination process in an attempt to create suspense, I'll directly post both my 5 runners-up and the winners of this year without further ceremony. Let me just quickly note that some books are just a tiny little bit older than 2020 because I have left some room for books from my old TBR-list I carried into 2020 with me. Reason is that some great books I have recently read still should have a chance up here, even if they aren't necessarily buzzing new. Since this is a purely personal list I took that liberty but ho...

It is finally time for the shorties of my recent reads and here they are for you to enjoy!

Well played, Catherine Cavendish, very well played… You had me fooled throughout the bigger part of this book, had me thinking I had figured it out, rolling my eyes at the ostensible Victorian banality of it all... And then you speed up toward the end and come up with that bombshell in the last quarter that I can only applaud. The Garden of Bewitchment is an exquisitely crafted, wonderfully astonishing, plain fantastic book! Forget all you know about cozy Gothic fiction because Cavendish is here to push the boundaries of convention and rewrite it all in letters of dread!