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Book review: Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead (The Loyal Opposition #1) by K.J. Parker
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: K.J. Parker is a pseudonym for Tom Holt.
According to the biographical notes in some of Parker's books, Parker has previously worked in law, journalism, and numismatics, and now writes and makes things out of wood and metal. It is also claimed that Parker is married to a solicitor and now lives in southern England. According to an autobiographical note, Parker was raised in rural Vermont, a lifestyle which influenced Parker's work.
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The Garbage (2026) Reading Challenge
If you've been following me for years, you'll know that I really love reading challenges because of the way it stretches your reading comfort zone, but I've always sucked at actually completing them.
In 2015, over at Goodreads, we kicked off our most outrageous challenge ever, borrowing The Beatles Reading Challenge from another group I was a part of, which had turned their songs into reading tasks. And in 2016, we whipped up The REM Reading Challenge. (I really sucked at this one. I couldn't even complete one album, but man was it fun trying!). And then to honor David Bowie's passing, in 2017 we pulled together the Bowie Reading Challenge! In 2018 I decided to take a break from our music theme and challenged everyone to read whatever the fuck they wanted in our RWTFYW challenge. The only rule was that there were no rules : ) In 2019 I spread my love of Guster around, 2020 was all about Ani DiFranco, 2021 had us fan girling over PJ Harvey, and 2022 continued the female artist love with our Liz Phair challenge (I sucked at this one too, didn't complete one album but came soooo close for so many!). 2023 had me returning to my 80s roots and we concocted The Cure challenge, which was my most successful up to that point. And 2024 brought us the Depeche Mode challenge, where I completed a whopping record breaking 8 albums! And we just closed out our 2025 Afghan Whigs Challenge.
For 2026 I'm going to keep the alternative resurgence theme going and am thrilled to announce that we're hosting the Garbage Reading Challenge!
Garbage made a comeback in 2025 but have been kicking the crap out of the radiowaves since the mid 90's. Shirley Manson is an absolutely killer lead vocalist.
Whether you know and love Garbage or this is the first time you are hearing of them (I mean it's possible, right?), what I think is most cool about these kinds of reading challenges... is that you don't even have to be a fan of the musicians to participate. You just have to be a fan of READING!!
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Garbage (2025) Reading Challenge
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So here's how this works:
*The goal is to cross off as many of Garbage's songs as you can throughout the course of 2026.
You can challenge yourself to complete one entire album, focus on completing one decades-worth of albums, or build your own challenge by hitting your favorite song titles... it's totally up to you!
*You cross off the songs by reading a book that meets the criteria listed after each song title.
If the book meets multiple reading tasks, cool! You can apply it to multiple song titles, OR you can make the reading challenge more challenging by limiting yourself to one song title per book.
*There may be built in redundancy with some of the tasks.
They are repetitive on purpose, to give you an opportunity to read more than one type of book and still get credit for completing a task. (Sneaky, I know!)
*Please copy and paste the entire list, or your customized challenge list, into your own thread in this goodreads folder and strike through the song titles as you complete them, OR, you can simply copy and paste each song title and its criteria from the master list here as you complete it. (obviously put your name in the thread title so we know whose challenge it is).
*Do not add your list directly to Rule and List thread.
*YOU MUST LIST THE BOOK TITLE AND AUTHOR that coincides with the song as you complete it for the challenge so we know what you read!
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An example of a completed song title task in your Challenge thread would look like this:
<s>“This Bouquet” – Read a book that features flowers on the cover</s> - The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
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Aaaaannnnnnnddddddd here's the list:
A total of 8 studio albums and 91 total songs tasks!
Garbage (1995)
"Supervixen" – Read a book that features a strong female MC
"Queer" – Read an LGBTQIA book
"Only Happy When It Rains" – Curl up with a book on a rainy day instead of going out or doing your chores and take credit for it here
"As Heaven is Wide" – Read a book that features religion
"Not My Idea" – Read a book that was recommended to you by someone else
"A Stroke of Luck" – Save this for the book that became a surprise five star read
"Vow" – Read a book that you swore you would never read, or a book by an author you swore you would never read
"Stupid Girl" – Read a book that features a sad girl / weird girl
"Dog New Tricks" – Read a book that features a dog or has a dog on the cover
"My Lover’s Box" – Read a romance novel or a book that heavily features love
"Fix Me Now" – Save this for the book that becomes your entire personality after you read it
"Milk" – Read a book that features drinking or has a drink on the cover
Version 2.0 (1998)
"Temptation Waits" – Read that book you just bought, go ahead, move
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STARTER VILLAIN
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It’s hard not to applaud
writer John Scalzi’s imagination and radical sense of humor. Having read
several of his sci-fi titles, he’s someone unwilling to be Pidgeon holed. From
straight action adventure with futuristic military combat to diplomatic
insanity among alien races who communicate emotions via flatulence. Scalzi isn’t about to be pigeon holed.
Charlie Fitzer, an
out-of-work journalist, is barely making ends meet as a middle-school substitute
teacher in a suburb of Chicago. That all changes when an uncle he barely knew, Jake
Baldwin, dies and leaves him a strange inheritance. Via a lovely young lady
named Morrison, claiming to be his uncle’s assistance, Charlie learns that his
very rich relative was in actuality a villain. But not just any run-of-the-mill
bad guy. No sirree, Uncle Jake was one of those super villains often found in
the pages of James Bond novels.
The weirdness doesn’t
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villains; all of whom now want to meet him and determine if he is any kind of
viable threat to their current nefarious schemes. Then there are the
genetically created intelligent cats who act as spies and the augmented
dolphins capable of sabotaging an enemy’s fleet or naval bases.
From his boring life
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located on a private Caribbean island, our hero’s journey is one of non-stop suspense
and danger every step of the way. There does exist the possibility of a pot of
gold at the end of it, but first Charlie has to stay alive to enjoy it. “Starter
Villain” is wacky, hilarious fun well worth your attention. John Scalzi really
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What differentiates The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema is author Nikolas Schreck used to practice the Black Arts. That granted the original 2001 edition a seal of credibility, but this new, considerable update — courtesy of Headpress — allows him to cover dozens of titles that didn’t exist, like Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, in a hilarious review that alone is worth the price of purchase. In his intro, Schreck asks, “Who the hell is the Devil anyway?” then answers with a thorough history lesson spanning the life of cinema. Yes, horror films abound, but Satan pops up in costumed dramas, British comedies, kiddie matinees, mondo docs, animation, pornography and even an “all-Negro musical” from Vincente Minnelli. From Kenneth Anger to Irwin Allen, Ingmar Bergman to Ed Wood, our writer proves to be the authority of the evil one’s vast filmography. Surrender!
Another year means another McFarland & Company publication from Roberto Curti. As prolific as he is, his subject this time makes him look lazy by comparison: cult icon Jess Franco. Co-authored by Francesco Cesari, The Films of Jesus Franco, 1953-1966 examines the works of the Spanish director from his start — his pre-OB/GYN cinema, one might say. As is Curti’s wont, each pic — from puffery like Attack of the Robots to artistic triumphs like The Diabolical Dr. Z — reliably devotes coverage so in-depth, they may as well be a submersible. What really makes this Jesús text special is how heavily it goes into Franco films we’ll never see, from his university short Theory of Sunrise, a debut “ignored” by other Franco texts, to Treasure Island, an abandoned ’64 adaptation/collaboration with Orson Welles. One Yank’s quibble: The movies are listed in Spanish, so unless you know your Red Lips from your Labios rojos, keep the index bookmarked.
I thought my own book did a decent job of mining some obscurities … then along comes Lowest Common Denominator: The Amateurish Writings of a Failed Film Critic to show everybody up on that front. Written by David John Koenig, aka “A Fiend on Film,” the self-published paperback might review as many movies I’ve never heard of as it has pages! That’s because Koenig’s tastes lean toward the Asian, underground, microindie and black-and-white crime pics as old as my grandparents. Needless to say, my Tubi list grew exponentially as I read. And read. And read! From A to Z, I didn’t miss a word and, as a result, got exposed to a whole new world.
When a movie gains a fervent, coast-to-coast cult, multiple books on it inevitably follow. That’s certainly the case with Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. I reviewed two of them a decade ago, and now it’s time to add a third with BearManor Media’s release of Accidental Genius: An Oral History of The Room. Think the world doesn’t need another? Think again. Andrew J. Rausch, whose work I love, goes deeper on the topic than any medium before him. With dozens of people weighing in, his task as curator and craftsman couldn’t have been easy, but as a read, it sure is. The anecdotes are as crazy as a Room viewer could hope for, from using Greg Sestero’s facial hair as a guide for editing the nonsensical scenes into something watchable to Wiseau’s desire to perform his sex scenes unsimulated. On purpose, Accidental’s a lot of fun, as entertaining as it is thorough — enough to make you want to exclaim in joy, “Hai, doggy!”
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