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Book review: ‘The Vacationers’ by Emma Straub
Originally posted on write meg!:
A summer getaway to a friend’s swanky pad in lush, fragrant Spain seems like a perfect opportunity for the Posts to reconnect. The family unveils secrets and struggles to move past old hurts to emerge a stronger group after two weeks in the Spanish sun. Franny and Jim are ostensibly…
You’re Spell Check is All Ways Write
Originally posted on Shannon A. Thompson:
You’re Spell Check is All Ways Write If you’re a writer or a reader, you probably just had a panic attack due to my horribly written title. Fortunately, you don’t have to correct me. I know it’s wrong. It’s terribly wrong. But here’s the funny part: my spellchecker didn’t…
…どうもありがとう… there’s me showing off now… it’s Japanese for ‘thank yeez very much’… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…‘duomo arigato’… that’s the Anglicised version… so when yeez hear it traditionally shouted at yeez by the staff when yeez go into a Japanese restaurant, they’re not hurling Nipponese abuse yer way… far from it… genteel-mannered folks in the main they are from the land of the Rising Sun… and…
Salvation by W.A. Heisler
Originally posted on readful things blog:
Salvation by W.A. Heisler Salvation is a fast-paced book of horror garunteed to raise the hairs on the back of the neck. It’s style has been compared to the works of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Salvation begins with a frantic phone call to Father Brian Halloway from Eric…