1. 16: “Black Water 2, More Tales of the Fantastic” loved it, full of surprises and delights from authors I’ve never heard of and authors most have — Arthur Conan Doyle, F Scott Fitzgerald, E B White, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margret Atwood, George Bernard Shaw , Arthur C Lark) — and stories too , like Melville’s Bartleby.

    "The Complete Gentleman” turned me onto Amos Tutuola, who I’m now reading in full.

    And a story from Isabell Allende?! Nice.

    previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 2 images twelfth book of '23 for me, "Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53080.Black_Water I started a Bookwyrm and posted there too but, alas no one there has reviewed it yet), edited by Alberto Manguel. 72 fantastic stories in a door stop of a paper back (at least that's how I read it), each one with a contextual introduction, and organized into themes. I'm now looking forward to starting the second one Manguel collected, Black Water 2. Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372394967950916Mastodon

    the paperback cover of Black Water 2, another creepy detail from the same painting used for the cover of Black Water. previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110403938932091902

  2. snoop dog holding a joint, laughing, looking right, wearing a gray winter cap and white and tan striped scarf

    split shotsleft: the paperback nyrb cover of “Autobiography of a Corpse” by, which is on my to-read pile (after I finish my life in the bush of ghosts and the palm-wine drinkard)right: a black and white photograph of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky wearing spectacles looking to the left in disbelief, as if looking at both the cover of his book, and snoop

  3. the only challenge coin i’ve ever kept

    photo of a challenge coin in my palm, a light blue field with a white daisy with a pink center in the middle, and the words Live top left, Love top right, and Laugh bottom center

  4. finally signing up for tsa [spits on the ground] pre and mad about this form question

    A screen shot of one question on the form which I waffled on before the everloving wife told me what she thought the right answer was :( Hair Color“Gray or partially gray”

  5. [TMBG voice] there’s only two parties in me, and I’m heading to the third

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