I've read 7 T. Kingfishers this year, she's now an auto-read for me. I'm not really a fan of horror but I like being a little spooked so I really like how whimsical her writing is.
@vanessahauser1903
2 жыл бұрын
🐇 and ❤ really fun to read His Hideous Heart and compare the short stories! Also loved What Moves the Dead
@icedcoffeeandbookss
2 жыл бұрын
34:20 yes! i love how open ended this book is. ahh i loved this book so much. 5 star rating for me!
@BrebearMckae
2 жыл бұрын
I agrée that short stories are so much more fun for retellings!
@icedcoffeeandbookss
2 жыл бұрын
15:37 same! i had to put it down a few times lmao not always bc it was gross but just how genius the writing was at some points.
@BrebearMckae
2 жыл бұрын
OMG I FELL ASLEEPPPPPPP lol I'll have to rewatch the liveshow!!!! SAD DAYS
@allgirlreview433
2 жыл бұрын
Can't believe I missed the live show. 🐇❤ I gave What Moves the Dead 4 stars. Loved it.
@KaitlinGeorge1
2 жыл бұрын
Didn’t quite finish this one before the live show so watching this late on Sunday. I adored this one, it was so creepy and unsettling. ❤️🐇
@oatmeal4020
2 жыл бұрын
For similar vibes I'd definitely recommend Parasite by Mira Grant. Less gothic, more thriller-y.
@BrebearMckae
2 жыл бұрын
For me fall if the house of usher is not my fave Poe- t kingfisher did a PHENOMENAL job of adding more vibes, spooks, and beyond! 5 stars for me!
@Macy_Richards
2 жыл бұрын
I had no idea that the book was set in a fictional country and was so thrown off when I first started reading it. Like, where are we?? Lol. Loved the creepy vibes of the story and I’ll definitely read more of the author’s work.
@ruthypoo2675
2 жыл бұрын
I read The Fall of the House of Usher first to get the origin story completed, and I’m glad I did because I often read a short story and wish I could get more details. Then I read What Moves the Dead and it was excellent at evolving Poe’s story with more characters and storyline, not to mention the language was modernized so it was a bit easier to understand what was happening. I thought both books were creative, complex, and had witty dialogue. I gave both 4 ⭐️
@LeahG27
2 жыл бұрын
I’m sad I missed this live chat, but I read both the Edgar Allen Poe short story as well as the T Kingfisher book. I enjoyed both but mostly the retelling. I had the weirdest thing happen like a week after I read this: I live in Florida and have never really seen any strange fungus except for the typical white mushroom but after a heavy rain, I saw the “basket stinkhorn” that’s on the cover and explained in the book. I was super creeped out 😧
@icedcoffeeandbookss
2 жыл бұрын
21:09 yayyyy!
@Hillary429
2 жыл бұрын
I saw Sorrowland pop up a lot in the recommendation section. Is it heavy on the graphic scenes and body horror?
@MajesticDiscoWaffle
2 жыл бұрын
I'm so sad I missed this one! 🐇🖤 I loved it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@ad419
Жыл бұрын
They talk a lot about the the presence of the rabbits(hares) and the uncannyness when they're used in horror. I think Kingfisher lampshades this by directly contrasting them with madame Potter's nice Beatrix Potter who made cute children's stories about innocent rabbits
@its_just_seb
2 жыл бұрын
You should take a look at "As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow" by Zoulfa Katouh! It's a book set in syria written by a syrian-canadian author, and the US edition came out yesterday. I had the pleasure of reading an early version of the book and it is absolutely breathtaking, and I think it would be right up your alley
@andiecurlybooks
2 жыл бұрын
Dang it!! I missed the live show! I gave the book 4 stars! 🐰🐇 I really love fungal fiction, so I loved how much fungi was in this novel! 💕
@mushroomc0re
Жыл бұрын
I highly recommend Leech by Hiron Ennes for those who liked What Moves the Dead or even those who were disappointed with it. it's from the POV of the fungal hivemind
@SpinesAndSpoilers
2 жыл бұрын
♥️🐇 Honestly one of my new favorite books 🤷
@rocknregalia
2 жыл бұрын
Man, missed the live show. Gave the book a 4.5. I think that the main thing that the original has that this retelling doesn't is that it is an exploration of how generations of incest pollute the bloodline, even to the point of contaminating the land and home.
@roguebookwoman_sara
2 жыл бұрын
I have been thinking about this since the live and since I'm an anxious person, I had to do a follow up. I'm the one who said The Haunting of Ashburn House is similar to What Moves the Dead. And I think it is in terms of the vibes, in the somewhat body horror elements, to the atmosphere being part of the story, and the weird family history, but it isn't the same specifically. It's kind of like, if you liked the vibes of What Moves the Dead, I feel like then you might like The Haunting of Ashburn House. It is a Gothic and I know you don't love those, so I wanted to clear the expectations 😂 (I love Gothic Horror it is my favorite genre--so much I'm planning on doing like a gothic classic reading thing for the end of this year and into next year! But I know not everyone is like me!)
@katiedavidson7955
2 жыл бұрын
🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇 and I love it!!!!!
@eliotopian
2 жыл бұрын
🐰🍄🧟♂
@alexgalloway3313
2 жыл бұрын
🐇🐇❤️❤️ I gave What Moves the Dead 5 stars and can’t believe I missed the live show again.
@NancyLiliG
2 жыл бұрын
Same and same
@TwinkleTwinkleRetroASMR
Жыл бұрын
Y’all need those notifications turned on!!
@kolibrisway
2 жыл бұрын
Personally I thought that Mexican Gothic was the worse out of these two - What Moves the Dead was so much more concise and atmospheric. MG just meandered and didn't get to the point until way after half-way, and WMtD was solid all the way. But I did read WMtD first - for MG I was somewhat spoiled that it was similar.
@thursday48
2 жыл бұрын
I read MG first but felt the exact same way. I also feel like this had more of a set up for the fungi while MG gave me more of a magical mushroom vibe
@TikiTikiRumba
2 жыл бұрын
pretty disappointed in the repeated misgendering of the main character. we get several paragraphs on alex's pronouns and ka/kan is used consistently for kan. almost every review i've seen has defaulted to they/them which is upsetting as they/them are not "default" pronouns for different genders and shouldn't be used as such. if a character uses ka/kan, or it/its, or xie/xir, then those should be respected when discussing the book and the character. i was hoping that would be touched on in this liveshow and am sad to see it wasn't.
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