Snapshot from the reading pile

Here’s what’s currently occupying my bedside table:

• Snow Blind. Christopher Golden. 2014. London: Headline Publishing.
• Sarah Laughed: Modern lessons from the wisdom & stories of Biblical Women. 2005. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Robert C O’Brien. 1971. London: Puffin Books.
• Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking. Susan Cain. 2012. London: Viking.
• The complete illustrated works of Edgar Allan Poe. 1981, 2013. London: Bounty Books.
• Goddesses: A world of myth and magic. Burleigh Mutén. Illustrator Rebecca Guay. 2003. Bath, UK: Barefoot books.
• Feminism and ecological communities: an ethic of flourishing. 1998. Chris J. Cuomo. London: Routledge.

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Griseus (2011)

I absolutely love this album by Aquilus. I don’t have words for it. It’s dark, symphonic, emotive, beautiful, film score-style black metal made in Australia. I hope to one day make it to an Aquilus live concert.

Admittedly I can’t think of a way to describe it without imagining the scene in The IT Crowd where Goth character Richmond Avenal goes to a funeral and gives a copy of a Cradle of Filth album to the grieving widow:

“… it’s actually quite beautiful.”