Taaqtumi
Registered by ReallyBookish of Furlong, Pennsylvania USA on 6/16/2020
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Reading now.
I really don't read or enjoy horror, and this anthology didn't do anything to change my mind. It is just not my genre. I read this for Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge to fulfill the prompt of "read a horror book published by an indie press." I made it through!
Journal Entry 3 by ReallyBookish at Wishlist Tag Game , A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, July 18, 2020
Released 3 yrs ago (7/18/2020 UTC) at Wishlist Tag Game , A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
This is headed out as part of the wishlist tag game. Enjoy!
The book arrived safely today - many thanks! Sounds like the book's a lot more in my wheelhouse than yours, so I'm looking forward to reading it. (I love the raven on the cover; it's hard to see in the cover image, which looks almost solid black, but it's a closeup of a raven's head and upper wing - stunning!)
I really enjoyed this collection! The stories varied widely, touching on aspects I hadn't expected as well as those that I had, and overall I found it a very effective anthology. Among my favorites:
"Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq: The Haunted Blizzard" by Aviaq Johnston mixes the real-world terrors of storms, darkness, and isolation with an additional one - a "bad thing" in the storm that can attack those who try to shelter alone. Beautifully atmospheric.
"Wheetago War II: Summoners" by Richard Van Camp, presented as a report by a survivor of a devastating attack on a group of children and their teachers on a field trip. The details gradually suggest that this is in a distant future where some kind of change - possibly the human population hitting a trigger point, possibly something else - has released the Wheetago, vicious, intelligent, collaborative beings that attack without mercy and which seem to be stealing the children. The descriptions of the indigenous people's culture are evocative and touching - especially as regards the way they teach the children to be resourceful and brave - but make the ending all the more harrowing.
“Lounge” by Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, the longest entry here, is set in a SF future but deals very strongly with ancient lore and with what might dwell deep in an Arctic mine.
"Utiqtuq" by Gayle Kabloona is a short tale with a zombie-apocalypse theme - not, perhaps, very surprising as to how it turns out, but it's well-executed and atmospheric. The premise is that a small group of Inuit have been surviving quite well in the remote Arctic, living as their ancestors did (plus some guns, to deal with the occasional ijiraujaq - zombie), when a helicopter shows up, carrying representatives of ReNew Canada, claiming to have a vaccine that can cure the zombie virus in the living and prevent new cases from occurring. This... will not end well {wry grin}.
"Sila" by K. C. Carthew is an all-too-believable little chiller about threats to a woman and her child from a polar bear driven out of its usual haunts by climate change.
"The Wildest Game" by Jay Bulckaert is written as a last letter by a man who's currently blockaded in his remote wilderness hut after having killed and cannibalized a number of people; it's the narrator's offhand, rather cool tone that makes the account so effective.
"Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq: The Haunted Blizzard" by Aviaq Johnston mixes the real-world terrors of storms, darkness, and isolation with an additional one - a "bad thing" in the storm that can attack those who try to shelter alone. Beautifully atmospheric.
"Wheetago War II: Summoners" by Richard Van Camp, presented as a report by a survivor of a devastating attack on a group of children and their teachers on a field trip. The details gradually suggest that this is in a distant future where some kind of change - possibly the human population hitting a trigger point, possibly something else - has released the Wheetago, vicious, intelligent, collaborative beings that attack without mercy and which seem to be stealing the children. The descriptions of the indigenous people's culture are evocative and touching - especially as regards the way they teach the children to be resourceful and brave - but make the ending all the more harrowing.
“Lounge” by Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, the longest entry here, is set in a SF future but deals very strongly with ancient lore and with what might dwell deep in an Arctic mine.
"Utiqtuq" by Gayle Kabloona is a short tale with a zombie-apocalypse theme - not, perhaps, very surprising as to how it turns out, but it's well-executed and atmospheric. The premise is that a small group of Inuit have been surviving quite well in the remote Arctic, living as their ancestors did (plus some guns, to deal with the occasional ijiraujaq - zombie), when a helicopter shows up, carrying representatives of ReNew Canada, claiming to have a vaccine that can cure the zombie virus in the living and prevent new cases from occurring. This... will not end well {wry grin}.
"Sila" by K. C. Carthew is an all-too-believable little chiller about threats to a woman and her child from a polar bear driven out of its usual haunts by climate change.
"The Wildest Game" by Jay Bulckaert is written as a last letter by a man who's currently blockaded in his remote wilderness hut after having killed and cannibalized a number of people; it's the narrator's offhand, rather cool tone that makes the account so effective.
I'm adding this book to the Bookbox of the Apocalypse, which will be on its way to its next stop soon. (It's a bonus book; one or two of the stories might qualify for the bookbox, but I noticed that the book's on the wishlist of BCer echode, next in line, so I'm adding it as a RABCK.) Hope someone enjoys it!
*** Released for the 2020 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2020 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***
You rock, GoryDetails!
With a squeal of delight & a Snoopy dance, I shall read then release back into the Bookbox.
(Later)
Atmospheric and cohesive. I always appreciate when a setting is so prevalent that it becomes one of the characters in a book; the chilling boogeyman in this collection of short stories is The Arctic.
I'm probably reaching, but it seems like the order of the stories was very intentional, like a "relay" anthology, with each succeeding author picking up where the previous left off (the boy's knife mentioned at the end of Wheetago and into Revenge had me patting myself on the back). It culminates to my favorite story, the futuristic Lounge, then seems to either diverge into different possible timelines...or prove my theory is 💩
Thoroughly enjoyable slim volume that I hope will be the 1st of many. Placed back into The Bookbox of the Apocalypse & Other Realities for more readers to enjoy.
Thank you!!
With a squeal of delight & a Snoopy dance, I shall read then release back into the Bookbox.
(Later)
Atmospheric and cohesive. I always appreciate when a setting is so prevalent that it becomes one of the characters in a book; the chilling boogeyman in this collection of short stories is The Arctic.
I'm probably reaching, but it seems like the order of the stories was very intentional, like a "relay" anthology, with each succeeding author picking up where the previous left off (the boy's knife mentioned at the end of Wheetago and into Revenge had me patting myself on the back). It culminates to my favorite story, the futuristic Lounge, then seems to either diverge into different possible timelines...or prove my theory is 💩
Thoroughly enjoyable slim volume that I hope will be the 1st of many. Placed back into The Bookbox of the Apocalypse & Other Realities for more readers to enjoy.
Thank you!!
Received in the The Bookbox of the Apocalypse & Other Realities
Took out of the Post Apocalyptic box
I read a few of the stories in the beginning. Very interesting, thanks for sharing
Putting in the indigenous box
Selecting from the Indigenous Peoples bookbox. I usually like some good horror yarns.
Culling out some books for Goodwill. Hope someone will enjoy them.
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