Arbitrary Gestures and Bhitta ko Namaste

bhitta ko namaste

I was a huge reader back when I was young, going through books like they were nothing. Of course, my young mind couldn’t really grasp the implications of most of them, so they’d just slid off my brain. You can’t really give The Brothers Karamazov to an eight-year-old and expect the little bastard to get anything.

That’s not the case for everything, though, and some stories get burned into your mind so clearly that you still remember it fifteen years later. Sometimes those are pretty unassuming too. Not well-known classics or bestsellers, just some random story that grabs hold of an impressionable mind.

Continue reading “Arbitrary Gestures and Bhitta ko Namaste”

Some Horror Book Recommendations for this Halloween

The spooky month of October is here, made extra spooky by the fact that this entire year has been a long fucking nightmare. With that said, what better way to cope than by reading about poor bastards that have it worse than us.

So, here is a list of some of my favourite horror books of all time. I’m sure everyone and their pet Labrador has read Dracula, Frankenstein, At the Mountains of Madness, and all the other famous ones at this point, so I’ll try to avoid those. I’m also going to try to avoid talking about the actual plot for the sake of preserving the tension.

Continue reading “Some Horror Book Recommendations for this Halloween”