5/27/2023 0 Comments Imajica goodreads![]() ![]() Barker reminds me a lot of another of my favourite authors, Anne Rice. ![]() This month, I read Galilee, his generational saga of familial drama with a mythological twist, and over the Christmas period, I devoured Coldheart Canyon, his Hollywood ghost story-slash-orgiastic satire. Younger me was daft because Barker’s fantasies are amazing, so dense and layered and still fresh decades after their publication. Yet his non-horror works, which are often hefty tomes of mighty ambition, always felt at a distance to me. I’m a big fan of his short stories and know way more about the Hellraiser franchise than is healthy. It’s taken me a while to get around to reading Clive Barker’s novels. 54DPCb2zKR- Kayleigh Donaldson January 10, 2023 I seem to be the first person to check it out in over 20 years. In fairness, one of my o ther resolutions was to read more poetry, so short books make for quick additions to my Goodreads annual target. As always, I set myself the goal of reading 100 books a year, and I’m doing pretty solidly so far. Oh well, at least we’ll always have books. ![]() We’re one whole month into this shiny new year, because time means nothing and its endless passage makes fools of us all. ![]()
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