Gabriela Cowan

3 books read for LibriVox

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Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte Horacio Quiroga Español
Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs
These are trickster tales with teeth, jackals outwitting tigers, a lamb rolling home inside a drum singing to the wolves who want to eat him. Best in small doses before bed, and Jacobs' endnotes tracing where each story wandered from are half the fun if you like that sort of rabbit hole.
The Purple Cloud M. P. Shiel
You get a bizarre, feverish last-man-on-earth story in Adam Jeffson, whose Arctic expedition leaves him wandering through emptied cities, burning with awe, disgust, and loneliness. Shiel’s ornate prose can feel excessive, but if you enjoy decadent strangeness, the book’s solitude gets under your skin.

3 books read for LibriVox

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Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte Horacio Quiroga Español
Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs
These are trickster tales with teeth, jackals outwitting tigers, a lamb rolling home inside a drum singing to the wolves who want to eat him. Best in small doses before bed, and Jacobs' endnotes tracing where each story wandered from are half the fun if you like that sort of rabbit hole.
The Purple Cloud M. P. Shiel
You get a bizarre, feverish last-man-on-earth story in Adam Jeffson, whose Arctic expedition leaves him wandering through emptied cities, burning with awe, disgust, and loneliness. Shiel’s ornate prose can feel excessive, but if you enjoy decadent strangeness, the book’s solitude gets under your skin.