Hi all,Here are a few of the in progress and just completed scans I'm working on for the good of Bookshare:
1. The Kill Riff by David J. Schow Present Status: scan complete, about to submit for validationSynopsis: Lucas Ellington seeks to avenge his daughter's death at a rock concert by destroying band members one by one. The last one left alive is forced to live up to a macho image by stalking his stalker in return.
2. Triage by Richard Laymon, Edward Lee, and Jack Ketchum Present Status: scan complete, about to submit for validationSynopsis: A whacko walking into a workplace after first making a threatening phone call ("I'm gonna get you") serves as the premise for each of the three novellas
in this grisly anthology. 3. Deep Blue by David Niall Wilson Current Status: out for validation Synopsis: A burned-out musician, Brandt, is playingin an obscure band when he hears a homeless black man, Wally, play the purest blues on the harmonica he has ever heard, music that encapsulates all the pain of the world. Brandt begs Wally to teach him how to play the same way. He disregards Wally's warning that he would have to take the pain into himself, and then play to purge it lest it consume him. Brandt's performance that evening changes the lives of his fellow band members. Together they discover that
they can play not to wake the dead but to settle restlessly roaming spirits. 4. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy Current Status: out for validationSynopsis: Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.
5. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Current Status: scan is about one-third completeSynopsis: Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death.
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