![]() ![]() Single mom Carmen and her two daughters are on a work trio to Mexico where Carmen is overseeing the renovations of an old church. Piñata by Leopoldo Gout is a possession story unlike any other. And it may already be too late to escape what’s been awakened… ![]() The disaster costs Carmen her job, cutting the family trip short.īut something malevolent and unexplainable follows them home to New York, stalking the Sanchez family and heralding a coming catastrophe. Then, an accident at the worksite unearths a stash of rare, centuries-old artifacts. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance for them to connect with their roots. It was supposed to be the perfect summer.Ĭarmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, and V Castro will devour this bloody tale of vengeful spirits and the dark legacy of colonialism.”― BooklistĪ Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout. “This creepy, fast-paced read brings a fresh voice to horror…. ![]()
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Anyway, I’ll be reviewing the book for Fantasy Book Review in a week or two, but I wanted to throw some insights out there which I saw in the book. Some folks can construct a real story with good characters and solid prose. ![]() It is thrilling to realize, more and more, that the prose quality of Twilight is not entirely the standard fare for YA fiction these days. I just finished reading Enclave, by Ann Aguirre, and found it to be a very good book. ![]() ![]() ![]() How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. 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He sensed the kick coming through his sleep and curled into a ball. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, music is a story of Black culture in America and of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. He also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of soul in Dilla’s own “Motown,” to funk, techno, and disco. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death and follows the people who kept him and his ideas alive. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that changed the way “traditional” musicians play. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. 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