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Ransom is Reading...
Ransom is under deadline and therefore allowing this column to suffer from neglect.
But I am wading into James Ellroy's Blood's A Rover with high hopes, loving the fact that he has delivered his largest, most complex crime novel yet. Should be a brutal experience.
I also recently finished Richard Russo's fine novel That Old Cape Magic, which I found deceptively smooth (in the sense that it seemed light but was actually very rich). Humorous and touching, very insightful and rewarding.
Just about ready to reread The Finder, by Colin Harrison. I sort of blazed through this last spring and am already looking forward to another go, this time taking it slow.
Is it me or is this fall chock full of good books to read? It's all very inspiring. Nothing makes me want to write more than reading good fiction does.
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What others have to say about The Birthing House:
“Once in a long while, the claim of a "stunning debut novel" is actually deserved. Christopher Ransom's The Birthing House is one of those rarities.
“Not a traditional mystery -- no cops-and-villains stuff, nary a PI to be found. Nor a straight-up horror story, haunted-house or otherwise. But, merging all of these, thriller it most assuredly is. And if little shudders aren't tap-dancing your spine about 20 pages into this thing you should lay off the Prozac.
"Infectiously terrifying (not least because Ransom does not bludgeon you with it), this tale could make you re-examine your dreams, memories, marriage, kids, neighbours, even your dog.“And stop your breath cold.”
-Winnipeg Free Press
"The Birthing House is as scary as they come, but calling it a horror novel is too simplistic. A passionate, thoughtful exploration of the darker regions of the human heart, rendered in prose elegant and luminous as the edge of a knife, it's quite simply a terrific novel. Christopher Ransom is going to be huge."
Marcus Sakey
author of The Blade Itself
and Good People
“Either I don't know my horror stories (and I do know my horror stories) or Christopher Ransom's The Birthing House was so all-out scary that it kept me up until the wee hours in a way few novels have since Carrie went to the prom. Alone, in the dark, this modern-day tale of ancient Liliths and their spawn kept me wondering if every sound was a tall, bone-pale woman in a long, crackling black dress. This book is killer.”
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
author of The Deep End of the Ocean
and Still Summer
“A stunning debut — swaddling the reader in dread from the very first sentence, and spiraling into a heart-stopping climax.”
- Michael Marshall
author of The Straw Men
and The Intruders
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