Kate’s 2¢:”Echo” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Moshe Gilula Moshe.

”Echo” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Moshe Gilula Moshe.

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I’m not real thrilled with the LGBTQ issue, however, as I got deeper into this gripping tale, it just didn’t matter.

A few take-aways:

— Death birds in Nick’s story, Ethon in my grandfather’s story, my taloned and feathered guilt complex.

— Even after all the running, Where you ended up, was the epicenter of your own wilderness.

— He approached the bed. It was like he was strewing more darkness with each step.

— The face was wrapped in bandages, but it didn’t smell medicinal. It smelled of stone, like earth, like something that came from earth itself.

— The feeling that you’re trapped and can’t get out wasn’t advertised on the Air B&B.

Promethisus’ soul, over time, got more and more barren. His body no more than an empty shell…His guilt returned to feast on his emotions.

— Alternat ending: Hercules shows up one day to save Prometheus from his pickle.

— Everything that you’re responsible for, comes back eventually.

— The same story over and over again.  How you did something as a kid and lived your life hoping that one day  you’d have the chance to redeem yourself,  to make amends.

— Every day, your path goes in circles

— In order to set our souls free, something had to be scooped out.

— It wasn’t such a leap of faith to imagine the weight of the blanket was actually your grandma’s arms embracing you.  That it was her sobbing that you heard, not the luring call of the echoes in the wind. My gaze was drawn to the Modee again. Only the summit was visible now, in the slowly shifting mist, the mountain floating in its breathless silence.

— A good horror story didn’t end with death, it resonated with the echo of something worse to come.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Olde Heuvelt was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He studied English and American literature at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and at the University of Ottawa in Canada, where he lived for half a year. In many interviews, he recalls that the literary heroes of his childhood were Roald Dahl and Stephen King, who created in him a love for grim and dark fiction. He later discovered the works of a wider range of contemporary writers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Neil Gaiman, and Yann Martel, whom he calls his greatest influences.[citation needed]

From the web:

Moshe Gilula was born in Israel and has been living in the Netherlands since 1994. In between, he lived for three years in Chicago and one year in Oxford. Moshe has been freelancing as a translator since 2010.

Moshe Gilula – Flanders Literature

www.flandersliterature.be/translators/moshe-gilula

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Echo DB106995

Olde Heuvelt, Thomas; Gilula, Moshe. Reading time: 18 hours, 55 minutes.

Read by Lauryn Allman.

Suspense Fiction

Supernatural and Horror Fiction

After a terrible accident high in the Alps, travel journalist Nick Grevers wakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. But Nick and his boyfriend Sam soon realize that something else came down from the mountain with Nick, and their uninvited guest is awake. Translated from the 2019 Dutch edition. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

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