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So I’ve been Slacking Off… (Oh Yeah, and a Bit on Fellside by M.R. Carey)

As you may have noticed. Or maybe not, teehee. Regardless, I have not been writing very long posts lately. I’m sorry for it, if you miss them; if not, well, you’re welcome.m But it’s the end of summer and we are getting read for family vacation (two adults, two adult-sized teenagers, one fun-sized toddler on the way to the beach) and I’ve been having a hard tie ginning up enthusiasm for much besides figuring out what to pack and how to get it all into the car so we can LEAVE ALREADY… So you’re getting another teaser quote. It’s not much of a post, but it’s the best I can manage today I’m afraid. The book deserves more – a full review at least, because I really quite enjoyed it, but I’m going to settle for a rather brief touch in the interest of time and attention. It’s from Fellside, an excellent book about prison and punishment and ghosts and truth and lies and how mish-mashed they all get when the lives of real people are on the line… If you don’t know it yet, you should pick it up – even if you, like me, don’t normally find books about harsh prison conditions particularly enticing.

It wasn’t fair to canonise someone, he thought, alive or dead. To make them the keeper of your conscience or the apple of your eye or the guarantee that you’d actually lived. And it wasn’t fair to hate them if they let you down.

How great is that?? The exceedingly cool author – M.R. Carey – has a masterful way with words and knows his way around a story better than many. Anyway, enough to-do, the quote should tempt you even if I didn’t. And if you haven’t seen his previous book, The Girl with All the Gifts, that’s another one to add to your TBR (to-be-read) pile – another eerily atmospheric tale guaranteed to set your mind to questions and your skin to crawling – not in a gory, evil way but in a creepy, oh-my-GOODNESS, way that makes for a great read…

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