![]() ![]() ![]() Furlong considers the ceaseless, often monotonous passage of time. ![]() That evening, the family cooks a Christmas cake and the daughters write letters to Santa Claus. On the first Sunday of December, the Furlongs attend a holiday event in the town center. Layoffs, poverty, and political conflict abound throughout the country. Furlong often feels empathy for the less fortunate members of his community. Furlong later attended technical school and eventually found work in the coal yard.įurlong now lives with his wife, Eileen, and their five daughters. During this time, he became close with Ned, Mrs. Wilson’s warm and welcoming home, unaware of his father’s identity. When Furlong’s mother became pregnant at sixteen, her employer-a kind Protestant woman named Mrs. In the second chapter, Keegan describes Furlong’s childhood. Furlong and his employees work diligently as the Christmas season approaches. Keegan utilizes the past tense throughout the narrative.īill Furlong is the coal and timber merchant in a small Irish town in the mid-1980s. Grove Press, 2021.Ĭlaire Keegan’s novella Small Things Like These is written from the third-person limited perspective. The following version of this book was used to create this guide: Keegan, Claire. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So I trust no one better to curate this collection of scary stories, all conceived by Stine himself, and written by some of the most exciting names in kids and young adult lit. Happy bingeing!Īs a child of the 90s, I owe my spooky sensibility to shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark and books like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark-but few works were more influential on my love of all things creepy than those of R.L. As a bonus, this collection is performed by an all-star cast including Jason Isaacs and Evan Rachel Wood among others. Jemisin, who tends more towards fantasy, may have written the smartest sci-fi story I’ve heard all year!). Each story in this collection is served up by big name writer (I was so intrigued to hear the author of Gentleman in Moscow tackle this genre, and N.K. So I'm LOVING the Forward Collection-it brings the vibe of Black Mirror, but it walks that perfect line that allows me to engage my inner nerd while keeping my inner stress-case at bay. I'm fascinated by these kinds of near sci-fi stories with dystopian themes, but I struggle to take them in on screen. While I've watched a few Black Mirror episodes over the years, I've generally found them to be too much to binge, and (confession) I have to have my husband test-watch them first to weigh in on whether or not he thinks they will keep me up at night worrying. ![]() This is exactly how I like my techno-anxiety ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, she’s exactly right Doug isn’t processing things that happened when he was younger in what anyone would consider a normal way. The protagonist of Invisible, Douglas, is a seventeen-year-old loner who could easily be described as an ‘unreliable narrator.’ Douglas, better known as ‘Doug’ or sometimes (unfortunately) ‘Dougie,’ is obsessed with three things- his friendship with his much more popular best friend Andy, his beautiful classmate Melissa Haverman, who openly hates his guts, and a incredibly intricate model railroad he’s building in his basement.ĭouglas’ fixation with trains (and in particular, model trains) are basically his entire life, his project is all-consuming and his mother worries that he’s not getting out enough and doesn’t have a firm grasp on reality. ![]() ![]() Luckily, the book has some good things going for it and overall I don’t think it was a waste of time to read (of course, being that I finished it in one evening I can’t say I had to put all that much time into it.) Unsurprisingly, that made me less enthusiastic about the book in general, because I had already figured out the single biggest surprise the author would throw at me long before it was revealed. I’m not going to spoil it for you (because I’m not a heartless troll) but let’s just say this: I’m usually terrible at guessing twist endings and I figured this one out less than halfway through. Okay, I saw the twist of this one coming from a mile away. ![]() |