16 Monday Jan 2012
Posted in Books, Browsing My Bookshelf, Musings, True Life
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books, Goethe, Herman Melville, Jack Cady, memories, photography, quotations, St. Teresa of Avila, Stephen King, travel
If the pulse lies, then the heart lies.
– Cebuano folk healer, quoted by Richard W. Lieban, Cebuano Sorcery: Malign Magic in the Philippines
22 Thursday Dec 2011
Arrived at my parents’ house for the Christmas holiday; there’s nothing to do here except eat, which might be good for the blog. I brought an iPad full of ebooks, and two physical books, both short story collections: The Jack Daniels Sessions, by Elwin Cotman, and Ghosts of Yesterday, by Jack Cady.
I mentioned Ghosts of Yesterday before; I picked it up around Thanksgiving, and I’ve been sort of sipping at it on and off since then. I picked up The Jack Daniels Sessions a while back on a recommendation by Jesus Angel Garcia, the author of badbadbad. I started Jack Daniels Sessions yesterday. If you read like I do, multiple short story collections simultaneously, Cotman and Cady make a good pairing.
24 Thursday Nov 2011
Posted in Books
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I spent way too much money at Borderlands Books the other day: Fritz Lieber: Selected Stories, a collection of grotesqueries and mysteries from Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo, and a collection of short stories called Ghosts of Yesterday, by Jack Cady.
I’d never read Jack Cady before, and I wonder how I missed him. His list of awards stretches from the Atlantic Monthly “first” award and the Iowa Prize for short fiction all the way to the Nebula, the Bram Stoker, and the Philip K. Dick awards. Looking over his biographies and obituaries on the web, it sounds like he didn’t set out to be a fantasy/horror writer, more like his interests and choice of subject matter led him to be labeled that way. Nor does it seem like he minded, either. Continue reading »
