Review: The Beast You Are: Stories

The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay is a collection of short stories and a novella.  If you have read a Head Full of Ghosts, you will recognize some of the characters here.  If you haven't read it, you may want to read it before or after this.  It is really good too!  I highly recommend reading the story notes either after each story or at the end because they are really interesting and, in my opinion, will give you a greater appreciation of each story.  While each story fits into the horror genre, they are not all necessarily scary or gory.  I read them in order, but you don't have to.  

Bonus points for having a novella of anthropomorphized animals.  I am still haunted by Watership Down and always will be.  

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Review: Night Side of the River

Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Night Side of the River is a collection of short ghost stories by Jeanette Winterson.  The stories are divided up into tech-related, location-related, and person-related and each section include at least one true story that Jeanette has encountered.  You can certainly jump around and read them in any order you like.  I really enjoyed the technology-related stories and Jeanette's true stories the most.  Jeanette thinks about tech and artificial intelligence in the same ways that I do.  I find myself drawn to her writings on that.  The stories are beautiful and not necessarily scary.  It is a good reminder that we all live with ghosts even if they don't manifest themselves in the way we traditionally think about ghosts.  

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