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Books of 2018
Time for my annual post detailing the previous year’s reading! This year, I read 171 books (according to Goodreads, this was 39,874 pages). I didn’t keep track of the gender or nationality of the authors this year as I sometimes do, however. Below is a list of my favorites, followed by the complete list of what I read in 2018.
Favorites
As it turns out, I read a lot of really good books this…
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Creature Feature Checklist at Edge Effects For Halloween, I've written a Checklist for Edge Effects presenting creature features that illustrate key elements of ecohorror. Lots of fun and scary movies to watch!
CFP (ASLE 2019) - Prehistoric Creatures and Anthropocene Fears: The Past Comes Back to Bite Us
CFP (ASLE 2019) – Prehistoric Creatures and Anthropocene Fears: The Past Comes Back to Bite Us
Conference: ASLE (the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) – Paradise on Fire Dates of Conference: June 26-30, 2019 Location: University of California, Davis Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2018 at 11:59 pm (EST) via Submittable
Horror and science fiction have long featured the return of the prehistoric, the monstrous past coming back to intrude upon the present and…
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Women's History Month: Marie Curie and Beyond
Women’s History Month: Marie Curie and Beyond
As Women’s History Month begins, I find myself wishing I’d planned a series of blog posts about amazing women in history (similar to my daily posts for horror movies in October); unfortunately, however, I only thought of this today and this month is looking to be a beast, so that won’t be happening. I’m going to try to post more than once this month, but I can make no promises! I wanted to begin…
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CFP: Ecohorror Roundtable at MLA 2019
Conference: Modern Language Association, January 2019, Chicago, IL Sponsored by: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Deadline: March 2, 2018 Organizers: Christy Tidwell ([email protected]) and Carter Soles ([email protected]) In recent years, there has been increasing attention within both ecocriticism and horror studies to the intersections between the…
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Books of 2017
With the new year, it’s time for my recap of the previous year’s reading. Here are all the books I read in 2017 (listed in chronological order, with ratings). After the long list, I’ve included some statistics and a list of my 20 favorites of the year with commentary on each. This year, I read 172 books, split just about evenly between books by men and by women (49.5% by women and 50.5% by men),…
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Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.
“MUST BRING PRESENTS TO GOOD CHILDREN”
“Yes good”
“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”
“Wait no”
“EAT THEM”
“sasha no”
@burstofhope the Christmas tiger is watching
She is making a list
It is not easy with her paws but she is making it
shes almost here
Okay fine this is the ONE Christmas thing I will reblog before Thanksgiving BUT THAT’S IT
Consider that some people think that they 'just don't see race,' or that poverty doesn't exist in their community, or that Indigenous people aren't part of their national consciousness. One way to understand what is at play here is through imagining a kind of benign ignorance--people just haven't been taught the facts of the situation, and so they can't be held responsible for not understanding how race, poverty, indigeneity, and more, are present in their lives. If this were the problem, just giving people more and better information would correct their knowledge problem. But we don't just have a knowledge problem--we have a habit-of-being problem; the problem of whiteness is a problem of what we expect, our ways of being, bodily-ness, and how we understand ourselves as 'placed' in time. Whiteness is a problem of being shaped to think that other people are the problem.
Alexis Shotwell, Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
...I close my eyes and listen to the roar and clatter of the world as it rushes by. We are rushing too. The wind is whipping past us. We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.
Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
The first thing that happens at the end of the world is that we don't know what is happening.
Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"Indians have been adapting since before 1492 so I guess we'll keep adapting." "But the world is going to pieces." "It is always going to pieces." "This is different." "It is always different. We'll adapt."
Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
Hypothesis: Ice cream makes nothing better, but makes things feel like they're better.
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!
We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt. People are forever thinking that the unthinkable can't happen. If it doesn't exist in thought, then it can't exist in life. And then, in the blink of an eye, in a moment of danger, a figure who takes power from our weak desires and failures emerges like a rib from sand. Jean de Men. Some strange combination of a military dictator and a spiritual charlatan. A war-hungry mountebank. How stupidly we believe in our petty evolutions. Yet another case of something shiny that entertained us and then devoured us. We consume and become exactly what we create. In all times.
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan
Countdown to Halloween, Day 31
Countdown to Halloween, Day 31
And, of course, the countdown to Halloween has to end with Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter)! It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare. This is a classic for a reason. From the opening scene and its first person perspective, ending with the very creepy shot of little Michael Myers in his clown costume, the film is iconic. Jamie Lee Curtis’s Final Girl. The score, which plays so…
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I have become a fan of South Korean film over the past few years. One of my favorite directors, in fact, is Bong Joon-ho. The Host (2006), Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), and Okja (2017) vary in style or genre but all are great.
I mention him here because I love his work but he didn’t make this countdown. The Host is science fiction/horror, but I decided it wasn’t clearly enough a horror film for my purposes here; I tried to stick with movies that fall more clearly within genre lines. If I’d included The Host, I would also have wanted to include Gojira (1954, dir. Ishiro Honda) and Silence of the Lambs (1991, dir. Jonathan Demme), so I just simplified my list by cutting them out. If I have any regrets about my list, this is where to find them.
The South Korean films I did include here are Train to Busan (2016, dir. Sang-ho Yeon) and Thirst (2009, dir. Chan-wook Park). Beyond their origin, these two films don’t have too much in common, however.
Train to Busan is a well-executed zombie film that takes place largely on a train and in train stations. It reflects some interesting cultural values and ideas about community and about fatherhood and has some impressive action sequences. It also uses sentiment in a way that worked for me, and it made me cry.
Thirst is much slower and very bloody. I want to watch it again – I need to in order to be able to say much about it – but I remember it as being very intense and very good.
Earlier countdown entries:
Night of the Living Dead, dir. George Romero (1968)
Dawn of the Dead, dir. George Romero (1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, dir. Philip Kaufman (1978)
Get Out, dir. Jordan Peele (2017)
Hellraiser, dir. Clive Barker (1987)
Psycho, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
The Birds, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
Jaws, dir. Steven Spielberg (1975)
Teeth, dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)
Candyman, dir. Bernard Rose (1992)
Creep, dir. Patrick Brice (2014)
The Wicker Man, dir. Robin Hardy (1973)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, dir. Tobe Hooper (1974)
Cabin in the Woods, dir. Drew Goddard (2012)
Suspiria, dir. Dario Argento (1977)
The Witch, dir. Robert Eggers (2015)
Rosemary’s Baby, dir. Roman Polanski (1968)
The Babadook, dir. Jennifer Kent (2014)
It Follows, dir. David Robert Mitchell (2014)
Carrie, dir. Brian de Palma (1976)
Ginger Snaps, dir. John Fawcett (2000)
American Werewolf in London, dir. John Landis (1981)
The Thing, dir. John Carpenter (1982)
The Fly, dir. David Cronenberg (1986)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)
It Comes at Night, dir. Trey Edward Shults (2017)
Shaun of the Dead, dir. Edgar Wright (2004)
28 Days Later, dir. Danny Boyle (2002)
Countdown, Days 29 & 30: South Korean horror I have become a fan of South Korean film over the past few years. One of my favorite directors, in fact, is Bong Joon-ho.
Countdown, Days 27 & 28: Zombies (Again)
Countdown, Days 27 & 28: Zombies (Again)
I’ve watched a lot of zombie movies. Some are very bad; some are very good. Some, like Shaun of the Dead (2004, dir. Edgar Wright) and 28 Days Later (2002, dir. Danny Boyle), are excellent. You’ve got red on you. I’ve seen Shaun of the Dead more times than I can count. Billed as a rom-zom-com, it’s doing multiple things at once – and it is doing all of them very well. Even after so many viewings,…
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