Welcome to our Fairy tale Adaptations book club! This go round we’ve selected four books that showed their author’s take on various fairy tales and folktales. Each of our books have their own Discussion Posts and don’t forget, we’ll be having our Zoom Book Club on Saturday September 18 at 7 pm EDT. Other Discussions The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson For those of you returning or […]
Scarier than a really scary thing.
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Following on from The Passage, this is the second book in Justin Cronin’s epic trilogy. It starts nearer to Year Zero, when the human population is decimated by the failed-science-experiment-creatures-that-turn-into-vampires-but-I’m-not-sure-if-we-are-really-supposed-to-call-them-that. We are reacquainted with familiar characters, and get very quickly introduced to a whole bunch more. Honestly, it’s a bit hard to keep up at the beginning but there’s no need to stress too much – mostly they just seem to be there to give us some knowledge about the ancestry of those we came […]
“Killing a calf is the worst of the worst you know. Beside it, breaking a promise is nothing really. Nothing at all.”
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
In One Word: Heart-stopping Cannonball Read Bingo Square: The Wilds My friends (not my friends, my pretend internet friends) on my favorite podcast Literary Disco read this book and Tod said it was the scariest thing he’d ever read, really talked up how terrifying it was. It’s been quite a while since I read anything horror, so I was intrigued. A friend of mine happened to be down for reading it as well, so a two-woman book club was born! We journeyed down this road […]
Yeh it’s pretty scary.
The Passage by Justin Cronin
I did it – I read another fiction book! Thanks to Caesar’s Wife for continuing to inspire my reading list. Not long after turning the first few pages of The Passage I felt a bit like I’d started a Stephen King book – that’s the closest genre I can think of that relates to this novel. This book, the first in a trilogy, starts in roughly present day USA when the government is rounding up death row inmates to act as lab rats. The experiment […]
They would have gotten away with it too…
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
CBR13 Bingo: Book Club (the July selection of my fantasy/sci-fi book club here in Oslo. I read it in early June) Official book description: The surviving members of a forgotten teenage detective club (and their dog) must reunite as broken adults to finally solve the terrifying case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison. Scooby Doo and the gang never had to do this! 1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small […]
You don’t want a ticket for this carnival
Carnival of Souls: Graphic Novel by Jazan Wild
I found Glose (an online reading source) by accident and noticed they had a few free titles, but most must be purchased. With online content, frankly, I am not a fan of buying. Therefore, I hunted around to find any free content. Most of that was classical stories (not a bad deal honestly, as it’s a great way to expand my reading of the classics) but I was able to get a few free contemporary books as a signing up deal. While looking in graphic […]
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