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“There is nothing nice about Southern ladies!”

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

July 26, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – LIBATIONS [TW: sexual assault/rape] It’s the early 1990s, and Patricia Campbell lives in a suburb of Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, two kids, and mother-in-law. She does what she can to be a picturesque Southern lady: exceptional manners and hospitality, exquisite outfits, pristine home, and exemplary family. She is a perfect Southern peach, and she’s bored. The only outlet she has that is solely for herself is her book club filled with other women just like her. To escape their lives, they […]

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

Needful Things by Stephen King

July 25, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Needful Things might just be the quintessential Stephen King experience. I tore through over 700 pages at a fantastic clip, enthralled by the plot and developing genuine concern for the characters. And then, the ending happened and I was left puzzled, annoyed, and uncertain how I felt about the book overall. The mysterious Leland Gaunt opens a new store in Castle Rock, Maine and one by one all the townsfolk stop by to see what’s on offer. Needful Things is a curious store that doesn’t […]

Attack of the Mombot

Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

July 25, 2021 by Zirza 1 Comment

On a sunny eve, somewhere in the suburbs of Wichita, Gina Royal comes home with her two young children to find a car embedded into her house. But that’s not the biggest problem. The real problem is that the car has destroyed the garage wall, and when the cops take Gina into the garage – her husband’s hobby domain – she finds a dead woman suspended from the roof of the garage. The woman has been tortured to death. The culprit? Gina’s loving husband Melvin, […]

If there’s a library in the title and on the cover, shouldn’t it be part of the story?

The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu

July 24, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 5: Cityscape The Library of the Dead features the city of Edinburgh on the cover, both above and below ground. It has a pretty interesting premise: 14 year-old Ropa is a ghostalker, meaning she is a licensed professional who takes messages back and forth between the dead and the living. She’s dropped out of school to work full time to support her family, her grandmother and little sister. She’s got rather rough past, but she does have a few friends. One of them introduces […]

Do you still wish you had a river you could skate away on?

Blackwater: The complete saga by Michael McDowell

July 18, 2021 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

Originally published as 6 short novels, the almost 800 page long Blackwater follows the Caskeys, a family of mill owners, from the 1920s to the 1970s. The story starts with a flood. Perdido and Blackwater, the two rivers that run through the town Perdido, have covered the whole town in murky water, killing people and destroying properties. Oscar Caskey, who works at his family’s mill, and Bray, his servant, are rowing through town, when they find a woman sitting on a bed on the second […]

Stuart Turton is an imaginative little turd. I might be a fan for life. #CBRBINGO – Reader’s Choice

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

July 14, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 28/30 This was one of the last books I read in my thirty day book binge, and I think it says something about how good it was that even though I had some book fatigue going on, I happily and quickly finished this in less than two days. It’s not a huge book, but it’s not small, either. Like Turton’s first book, this is a mystery at heart, and also like his first book, there are some complicating factors […]

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