#the wolfe at the door

[torpublishinggroup]

TOR WRAPPED 2023

Books for every Spotify Wrapped listener class! 

VAMPIRE

Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Mordew by Alex Pheby

HYPNOTIST

The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu

Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Spring’s Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow

ALCHEMIST

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

SHAPESHIFTER

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

FANATIC

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

TIME TRAVELER

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

MASTERMIND

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

Exadelic by Jon Evans

COLLECTOR

The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe

Cassiel’s Servant by Jacqueline Carey

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

[ilikereadingactually]

The Wolfe at the Door

The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe

i don't even know how to begin to review the experience i had reading this collection, except to say that i had a GREAT time!! Gene Wolfe has been on my radar, but i hadn't yet picked up any of the novels he's famous for. i definitely will now! this collection was a JOURNEY, so varied in almost every way, except that each piece had this particular sparkle of style that tied them all together.

my favorite stories ranged from mystery/thriller/drama in space mausoleums to time-bending Arthuriana to a sorrowful Lucifer on Easter Sunday, by way of baseball played with speedboats and a matchmaking smart fridge from the future. every single story feels impossible to describe--i tried, and the friend i was texting could only keep replying "that sounds wild!"--and yet each one is compelling, surprising, and a little mischievous. Wolfe combines the "highbrow" and the "lowbrow" (for what those terms are worth) in ways that create a fun, often funny tension, like eating caviar with pop rocks mixed in. i hope this is typical of his style, because i will definitely be bumping him up in my TBR priority list.

the deets

how i read it: an e-galley from NetGalley, this time one that someone at Tor actually emailed me (and probably lots of other people) to push it to? have i become slightly marginally cool? senpai noticed me??

try this if you: appreciate little bites of stories, love to be surprised, want Thoughts to be Provoked, or are charmed by the best kinds of what i personally think of as "dad fiction" (no offense to my dad, who has fun taste in fiction from before i was old enough to read it)

some lines i really liked: it was so hard to choose, this book is a CHONKER

The sympathy in Alexis' face looked tough and a little wilted, like cabbage pulled from a dumpster.

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He extracted a package from his coat pocket and produced a flask containing a fine gray powder whose composition would have shocked the average hyena.

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Viviane turned to the small woman with wings. "Please--my gosh, I still don't know your name. When I was little I read books about fairies. Now I can't remember them. Wait. Nimue's one. Do you like it?" "That is you, I believe." The small woman giggled. "No, I'm Viviane."

pub date: October 31, 2023!

[dabidagoose]

Ok but with ylfa's backstory it's just. There's a wolf who can take people's skins and mimic their voices? So there have been many ppl who have gone into the woods, been attacked by a wolf, and then what's returned has looked and sounded and hell maybe even acted like them! But a bit more monstrous. With hair on their hands, and a low snarl, and sure they sound like our dear loved one and they look like them but they're scary. They're scary, and they've changed, and shouldn't they be dead?

And maybe if they're scary they aren't our loved one - they're actually just the scary thing in disguise yes of course! Cause they would never scare us like that. They could never be transformed like that. So it's not them, so they're dead.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary Coupé, 1989. Chassis no. ZA9CA05A6KLA12692 appeared in and was wreaked for Martin Scorsese's film The Wolf of Wall Street. The 25th Anniversary model finished in Bianco Polo over Bianco interior is one of 12 built for the US market. It is the exact car that Leonardo DiCaprio crashed in the film, apparently Scorsese was dissatisfied with the damage done during the stunts and had a flatbed truck collide with the Bertone-designed Lamborghini multiple times to inflict more damage. It is to be offered at auction by Bonhams and has an estimate of US$1,500,000- $2,000,000.

auction listing

[thatsbelievable]

[bi-mccall]

rewatching teen wolf 1.01: wolf moon

[rayshippouuchiha]

Naruto: Oh poor dear, all beaten up and matted :(

Kakashi: *experiences gentleness for the first time in years*

Kakashi: *drops head onto Naruto’s stomach*

Kakashi: this is where our pups will be :)

Naruto: *exists*

Kakashi: If I bleed all over you that means you're mine now right?

Naruto: Uh-

Kakashi: Too late, no takebacks.

[patrothestupid]

5 minutes late

[chirpsythismorning]

S5 opener REAL

[skyward-floored]

These pictures are horrendous (downside of playing botw on a wiiu), but these are some of my favorite botw pictures with Wolf Link I have on my master mode file

[ladyviren]

Sketched some more black characters

[torpublishinggroup]

Release Roundup - 10.31.23

halloween and new books on the same day? whoa.

👇title info below👇

Tor Books

The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe

TorDotCom Publishing

A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

Nightfire

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

[swanpit]

how death + team friendship pick locks death is just like :

[24-05txt]

Sketches from an AU I'm writing for: Ghost is a Shapeshifter and can turn into a dog.

This isn't actually part of what I'm writing (yet) I just needed GhostDog in a tacvest. It was important.

(if you'd like snippets of the thing feel free to ask, I have at least 3-5k completed)

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary "Wolf of Wall Street," 1989. Chassis KLA12722 was one of 2 special edition 25th Anniversary Countach supercars used in the filming of Martin Scorsese’s 2013 film The Wolf of Wall. One of 12 US-specification examples delivered in Bianco Polo over Bianco, it is to be offered at auction in December.

auction listing

[ozu-teapot]

Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman | Wolf Rilla / Jonathan Demme | 1973

Brendan Price, Sue Longhurst