Almut hat #DieTochterDesDoktorMoreau von #SilviaMorenoGarcia gelesen und rezensiert:

"Ein bekanntes Diktum lautet, jede Generation würde sich einen Textbestand – zumindest in Teilen – neu erschließen und ihn aus ihrer Zeit und ihren Diskursen heraus lesen. Silvia Moreno-Garcia macht mit" Die Tochter des Doktor Moreau" genau dies, behandelt Themen wie Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Gender."

https://www.literatopia.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28109:die-tochter-des-doktor-moreau-silvia-moreno-garcia&catid=67&Itemid=130

So weird to be at an #SFF reading at the #Seattle #Library and not recognize anyone!

(Probably I do know at least a few people but they’re either masked or my face-myopia is getting the better of me!)

Excited to see #SilviaMorenoGarcia read from her new book!

fuck me I misspelled the author's name, it's SILVIA, not SYLVIA. I am having a really bad day, I'm so very sorry.

#silviamorenogarcia

Almut hat #DerMexikanischeFluch von #SilviaMorenoGarcia rezensiert:

"... Catalina ist die klassische gefährdete Frau, zu deren Rettung aber nicht ein Mann kommt, sondern ihre Cousine Noemí Taboada. Die selbstbewusste Noemí gerät in ein böses post-koloniales Szenario des Grauens auf dem Anwesen High Place und bekommt es zu tun mit Beinahe-Untoten, Schimmel und einem unheimlichen Pilz. Silvia Moreno-Garcia inszeniert einen sich langsam entwickelnden Alptraum... "

https://www.literatopia.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27947:der-mexikanische-fluch-silvia-moreno-garcia&catid=67&Itemid=130

Holger hat ein frühes Werk von #SilviaMorenoGarcia rezensiert:

#CertainDarkThings funktioniert wie ein Räderwerk, das aus einer Vielzahl von Actionfilmen und Horrorgeschichten bekannt ist. Die Bezüge zum Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Sexismus erreichen bei weitem nicht die Tiefe wie in ihren späteren Büchern. Interessant sind aber manche Figuren, vor allem Domingo und Ana, und die Geschichte liest sich unterhaltsam.

https://www.literatopia.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27941:certain-dark-things-silvia-moreno-garcia&catid=67&Itemid=130

"I wanted to write a gothic story because it's not generally associated with Latin American writers. There is an almost cliché association with magic realism but we are capable of writing more than that. . . ."

Breaking Boundaries Norm for 'Mexican Gothic' Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia

https://www.cbc.ca/books/gothic-horror-on-canada-reads-breaking-boundaries-is-the-norm-for-mexican-gothic-author-silvia-moreno-garcia-1.6755238
Photo: Del Ray, Martin Dee
#MexicanGothic #MexicanGothicBook #MexicanGothicNovel #SilviaMorenoGarcia #GothicLiterature #GothicRomance #GothicHorror

Since we've all been talking about how to find and develop interesting characters, I feel like sharing an old craft post about a fun way to think about describing them.

It's about Silvia Moreno-Garcia's (amazing!) CERTAIN DARK THINGS and physical description that is really alive and thrilling.

#WritingCommunity #ReadingLikeAWriter #TheLoft #WritersofMastodon #Bookstodon #WritingCraft #PhysicalDescription #Vampires #SilviaMorenoGarcia #CertainDarkThings

https://bit.ly/CertainDarkDescription

Mexican Gothic (2020) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Few manage to still capture the essence of what makes gothic horror fun. Here, the genre's subversive core is laid bare. A decaying house, a creepy family obsessed with genetics and an outsider who tries to save someone from their clutches, all those classic elements have a lot to say about race, class and even colonialism, making this familiar story feel brand new.

#MexicanGothic #SilviaMorenoGarcia #HeikeLovesLists #BestBooks2022

Un bon roman de #silviamorenogarcia qui réussit à mélanger l'esthétique #gothique avec une réflexion coloniale, d'un endroit déraciné des lieux du gothique et de conserver un peu tout ce weird, gothique et fantastique anglais dans une transposition mexicaine (le patriarche fait venir le sol d'Angleterre sur le territoire mexicain et ne jure que par son architecture et ses valeurs), par les thèmes abordés et la narration.

Critique complète: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5143857887

#horreur #champignons

the question is, can I blow through this whole book before #bookclub at 6pm??

#reading #bookstodon #SilviaMorenoGarcia #librarylife #currentlyreading #fantasy #fiction #ProcrastinationLife

#7books (only 7?)
Fiction edition (gotta narrow it down)
Latinx edition (gotta narrow it down more)
- Hurricane Season, #FernandaMelchor
- The Death of Speedy, #JaimeHernandez
- Mexican Gothic, #SilviaMorenoGarcia
- The Savage Detectives, #RobertoBolaño
- The Boy Without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx, #AbrahamRodriguez
- The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle, #EdgardoVegaYunque
- One-Hundred Years of Solitude, #GabrielGarciaMarquez
#bookstodon

@Nod_Hero
#MJohnHarrison
#RobertIrwin
#IsmailKadare
#ElizabethHand
#KijJohnson
#SilviaMorenoGarcia
#CharlesStross

What are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:

#ElizabethPeters, a.k.a. #BarbaraMichaels
#MaryRobinetteKowal
#DorannaDurgin
#TamsynMuir
#CLPolk
#MarthaWells
#SilviaMorenoGarcia

#bookstodon #reading #WritersOfMastodon

Ich lese gerade tatsächlich mal einen gruseligen Roman #MexicanGothic von #SilviaMorenoGarcia. Es ist kein Splatter, mehr unterschwelliger Gtusel.

Finished. Ending was satisfying, if a bit rushed. A solid start to spooky reading season. Next: #CertainDarkThings by #SilviaMorenoGarcia

As spooky season begins, here's my first diverse book haul:

#TheHacienda by #IsabelCañas
#WhiteIsForWitching by #HelenOyeyemi
#CertainDarkThings by #SilviaMorenoGarcia

Today, in our golden age of literature, when almost everything has been done to death, one of the best and most rare gifts a book can give the reader is surprise. Thank you, Mexican Gothic.

In the early chapters, I felt a lot of parallels with a certain classic, so when Noemí arrived at The High Place, I thought "OK, the gimmick is obviously X, yawn, I hope she at least does something novel with it." Then, a bit further on, "Hmm, it would be kind of cool if it turned out to be something to do with Y…" Then it did, and in a more intriguing way than I had considered.

If a slow, tense buildup to a wild climax is something you're interested in, go check out Mexican Gothic.

#MexicanGothic #SilviaMorenoGarcia​

She thought that men such as her father could be stern and men could be cold like Virgil, but women needed to be liked or they’d be in trouble. A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.

#AmReading #MexicanGothic #SilviaMorenoGarcia