@@Michael_Wertenberg I think BuyMeAcoffee or PAYp*l gets you a higher percentage, but someone else here donated , I had a reeellie shiittie week, I'm in a better mood now (dont worry it won't last) and I wanted to do something good (for once). Enjoy.
@@Tetsujin-28 Thanks. I've looked into those but they either require you to live in the US or use PayPal. PayPal is pure evil. Don't even get me started! The week is almost over. Hang in there. The next week might be shitty too, but it will be different shitty, which is better, question mark
My comfort reads are Japanese translated novels. There is something about the spare, alien, dry, straightforward prose that says so little and yet so much that refreshes my mind.
That's a great point! I've only had a few translated-from-Japanese experiences (most recently with Ryu Murakami), and they've been very good experiences. I should try more of that. Thanks
@@Michael_Wertenberg I really liked Confessions by Kanae Minato. Goodreads includes it in the horror genre, although I think that's a bit of a stretch.
@@Michael_WertenbergSure you can. You won’t *win*, but you can argue right up until your velocity suddenly decreases to zero (bounciness of your meat sack ignored for simplicity’s sake).
Comfort Food books: Only you could get this wrong. Say you're in a reading slump and you read mostly a specific genre. You need a simple change of pace. Low stakes. Garlic and the Witch/Garlic and the Vampire (Bree Paulsen). Legends and Lattes/Bookshops & Bonedust (Travis Baldree) Factory Girls (Michelle Gallen), Shady Hollow/Summers End (Juneau Black), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo). Comfort food: Smashburger and Five Guys.
My goodness! From that list, I have only heard of Factory Girls. And am looking the others up now... Vey high reviews. I don't think the hipster/snob in me will allow me to enjoy a cozy mystery, Juneau Black (even though I've written a few as a ghostwriter). You may be over-estimating my openmindedness, but you're pushing me and I appreciate it.😁The Kate DiCamillo one looks good. And is getting high praise on Goodreads. I had to look up Smashburger and Five Guys. Would you believe there's a Five Guys in Riga!? I might have to try it out based on your recommendation. If it's good, it will literally be the 1st good food I've had in this city (not counting my homemade ghetto nachos)
Since I'd never heard of Smashburger, I looked it up. Apparently a smash burger is a type of burger. I looked it up and after reading the description, I don't know what a 'regular' burger is. how do you get patties if you don't 'smash' the meat? Hmm, you have presented a mystery to me...
Hi Michael, great video. I checked out my local, the Toronto Public Library, and they have some Neiderman books including a biography of V.C. Andrews, all of which I will look into. For comfort, I turn to a favourite worse for wear 1986 anthology called Halloween Horrors edited by Alan Ryan. I guess familiarity is also a form of comfort as I turn to my most well read Lovecraft stories when I need a warm literary blanket. I hope the blanket was for effect and you’re not coming down with something! Have a great Hallowe’en 🎃💀👻
A gesture of defiance of against Hestia, who blessed him with no gifts of the hearth. Why yes, I’ve been reading some Roman history. Emma Southon shows that careful scholarship and hilarious vulgarity go together well. “Almost any accusation of incest can be disregarded because incest was a bizarrely common accusation in the first century CE; there are numerous examples of people openly making accusations of incest in order to take out their enemies. So, either the Romans were constantly fucking their siblings, or it’s a strange cultural quirk of the period to accuse your enemies of fucking their siblings.”
Happy Halloween from (Contiguous) America’s Best Fjord, Puget Sound! Comfort reading for me includes relatively early Moorcock, Harry Turtledove, Diane Duane, Howard Waldrop, Joanna Russ (just checking if anyone’s reading this), Clive Barker. Short stories and novellas are often my friends when I need comfort food reading; those are often times when being able to nibble and then stop having gotten a complete thing feels good.
I had no idea the US had fjords! I suppose that makes sense. They have everything: mountains, beaches, deserts, everglades, glaciers. So, of course, they have fjords. I just looked up some photos. Nice! I hadn't heard any of those names (except Clive Barker, of course). They sound suspicious🧐
@ Alaska has a lot of them. Not many in the mainland. But Puget Sound was the coastal end of some big glaciers in the last Ice Age, now mostly full of water. For more geological freakiness from this area, look up the Scablands sometime. Geologists like living here. :)
@@angelwalker979 Oh, no😵It's high on my list, but I've got a box of books coming to me from Flame Tree Press (unboxing video, finally!) that I will prioritize. Plus, since I've never read that writer before, I'm waiting for you to try him out first🙃
"Every now and then, the brow needs to come down. That's just gravity." That's great.
I agree. I love the whole genre of word play where one shifts context and runs with the implications.
😁Thanks😁
Thanks
😁You're a rock star! Thank you😊😊
@Michael_Wertenberg I hope it's enough to buy a decent Belgian beer.
@@BrentDavis75 😁
Thanks!
What!! 😮Wow. Thank you!😁😁
@@Michael_Wertenberg I think BuyMeAcoffee or PAYp*l gets you a higher percentage, but someone else here donated , I had a reeellie shiittie week, I'm in a better mood now (dont worry it won't last) and I wanted to do something good (for once). Enjoy.
@@Michael_Wertenberg I think a comment here got *borked*. Enjoy
@@Tetsujin-28 Thanks. I've looked into those but they either require you to live in the US or use PayPal. PayPal is pure evil. Don't even get me started! The week is almost over. Hang in there. The next week might be shitty too, but it will be different shitty, which is better, question mark
@@Tetsujin-28 Nothing in my 'held for review' in box🤔
My comfort reads are Japanese translated novels. There is something about the spare, alien, dry, straightforward prose that says so little and yet so much that refreshes my mind.
That's a great point! I've only had a few translated-from-Japanese experiences (most recently with Ryu Murakami), and they've been very good experiences. I should try more of that. Thanks
@@Michael_Wertenberg I really liked Confessions by Kanae Minato. Goodreads includes it in the horror genre, although I think that's a bit of a stretch.
@@444Raine I've added it to my TBR. (The blurb had me at "Her pupils killed her daughter.") Thanks for the recommendation.
"sometimes....the brow needs to come down" 😄
Can't argue with gravity😁
@@Michael_WertenbergSure you can. You won’t *win*, but you can argue right up until your velocity suddenly decreases to zero (bounciness of your meat sack ignored for simplicity’s sake).
Lee Child, for me. Sometimes I just like to switch off and read about evil being smite by the the righteous either with fist or gun.
That's makes sense. I've not read him yet, but I hear good things.
Michael I agree with you about Ernest Hemingway. Dull dull dull. What’s with the blanket ?
I was going for the 'cozy look'. 🙃Still experimenting with the branding...
Comfort Food books: Only you could get this wrong. Say you're in a reading slump and you read mostly a specific genre. You need a simple change of pace. Low stakes.
Garlic and the Witch/Garlic and the Vampire (Bree Paulsen). Legends and Lattes/Bookshops & Bonedust (Travis Baldree)
Factory Girls (Michelle Gallen), Shady Hollow/Summers End (Juneau Black),
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo).
Comfort food: Smashburger and Five Guys.
My goodness! From that list, I have only heard of Factory Girls. And am looking the others up now... Vey high reviews. I don't think the hipster/snob in me will allow me to enjoy a cozy mystery, Juneau Black (even though I've written a few as a ghostwriter). You may be over-estimating my openmindedness, but you're pushing me and I appreciate it.😁The Kate DiCamillo one looks good. And is getting high praise on Goodreads. I had to look up Smashburger and Five Guys. Would you believe there's a Five Guys in Riga!? I might have to try it out based on your recommendation. If it's good, it will literally be the 1st good food I've had in this city (not counting my homemade ghetto nachos)
Since I'd never heard of Smashburger, I looked it up. Apparently a smash burger is a type of burger. I looked it up and after reading the description, I don't know what a 'regular' burger is. how do you get patties if you don't 'smash' the meat? Hmm, you have presented a mystery to me...
Hi Michael, great video. I checked out my local, the Toronto Public Library, and they have some Neiderman books including a biography of V.C. Andrews, all of which I will look into. For comfort, I turn to a favourite worse for wear 1986 anthology called Halloween Horrors edited by Alan Ryan. I guess familiarity is also a form of comfort as I turn to my most well read Lovecraft stories when I need a warm literary blanket.
I hope the blanket was for effect and you’re not coming down with something!
Have a great Hallowe’en 🎃💀👻
Hi Andrew. I love the comment. Thank you. The blanket was just my 'theatrical touch'😀Happy Halloween!
I love Levin's Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives. I need to look into Andrew Neiderman's books.
😁Could be a good read for the right mood
Damn. Andrew Neiderman is a machine. His books are fun.
Yep. In fact, his friends call him Fun Machine (but that's not because of his writing; just a nice coincidence)
Hi Michael. Happy Halloween 🎃
Hi Christine😁Thank you. Happy Halloween to you too!
hey whatchu cooking for
🤣😂
A gesture of defiance of against Hestia, who blessed him with no gifts of the hearth.
Why yes, I’ve been reading some Roman history. Emma Southon shows that careful scholarship and hilarious vulgarity go together well.
“Almost any accusation of incest can be disregarded because incest was a bizarrely common accusation in the first century CE; there are numerous examples of people openly making accusations of incest in order to take out their enemies. So, either the Romans were constantly fucking their siblings, or it’s a strange cultural quirk of the period to accuse your enemies of fucking their siblings.”
Happy Halloween from (Contiguous) America’s Best Fjord, Puget Sound!
Comfort reading for me includes relatively early Moorcock, Harry Turtledove, Diane Duane, Howard Waldrop, Joanna Russ (just checking if anyone’s reading this), Clive Barker. Short stories and novellas are often my friends when I need comfort food reading; those are often times when being able to nibble and then stop having gotten a complete thing feels good.
I had no idea the US had fjords! I suppose that makes sense. They have everything: mountains, beaches, deserts, everglades, glaciers. So, of course, they have fjords. I just looked up some photos. Nice! I hadn't heard any of those names (except Clive Barker, of course). They sound suspicious🧐
@ Alaska has a lot of them. Not many in the mainland. But Puget Sound was the coastal end of some big glaciers in the last Ice Age, now mostly full of water. For more geological freakiness from this area, look up the Scablands sometime. Geologists like living here. :)
Don't think i have read much of Neiderman, if i did it's been years. I do remember liking PIN but hated the movie. Happy Halloween my sweets! xx🧡🖤🧡🎃
Thank you😃I haven't read the book yet. I did, though, like the movie🤷
@Michael_Wertenberg Did you read Rest Stop yet? I'm still waiting for my copy that I ordered. I think the mail has gone back to the Pony express. 😂🙄
@@angelwalker979 Oh, no😵It's high on my list, but I've got a box of books coming to me from Flame Tree Press (unboxing video, finally!) that I will prioritize. Plus, since I've never read that writer before, I'm waiting for you to try him out first🙃
@@Michael_Wertenberg yay unboxing!😬👏👏 and I'll let ya know, I haven't read Cassidy either. I will be the guinea pig this time!😃
@@angelwalker979 🐹