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Tender Morsels
January 2 / / Reading

Reading Tender Morsels: Excerpts

I had the pleasure to read “Tender Morsels” by Margo Lanagan and while I’ve compiled my thoughts in my journal, I won’t get to make a post in a while, so instead here are just two of my choice excerpts from the book.

“No one would dare spit upon this woman, or call out to her. She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it – Urdda wanted some of that boldness.” – page 303 Read More Reading Tender Morsels: Excerpts

April 27 / / Musings & Rants

[Women in Genre, Day 27] Margo Lanagan and Thousand Other Voices

I don’t know whether it’s because Australia gives birth to nature’s deadliest being in creation or it’s a coincidence, but the strongest voices in genre fiction to leave in an intransient mark in big ways hail from spider central down under. Kaaron Warren started the trend, then Angela Slatter picked up the pace with Lisa L. Hannett and Felicity Dowker hot on her heels with the publisher and editor Alisa Krasnostein there to push excellent fiction forth. I’m thrilled to include the most hailed name in fiction when it comes to dark fiction – Margo Lanagan. Read More [Women in Genre, Day 27] Margo Lanagan and Thousand Other Voices