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Quadruple Cannonball!

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

The Institute by Stephen King

My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

October 23, 2019 by badkittyuno 3 Comments

Woo hoo! I hit 208 books this weekend. Here are the last 4 books I read, a nice mix of my favorite things: Becky Chambers, Stephen King, Christina Lauren, and a book about linguistics! (5stars) To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers I really love Becky Chambers’s writing — the subject matter (space!) is so fresh and interesting, but the characters at the center are so realistic and well-written (even when they’re not human). I was thrilled to discover that Chambers released a novella […]

Good Grief This Book Was Bonkers

Halloween Party by R.L. Stine

October 22, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

So I don’t even know what to say. What a crazy ride this book was. Also it takes place in 1984 and I maybe laughed at how some of the characters were talking. But the main plot and reveal of what the villain was up to made me go what in the world. And then I started to wrack my brain and wonder if I had seen a tv movie based on this book or what since it sounded familiar to me. I never read […]

A violent, sad, but very satisfying ending (Triple Bingo)

Locke & Key, vol 6: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

October 19, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR11 Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (horror) (Would also work for Illustrated) Spoiler warning! This is the sixth and final volume in the Locke and Key series. It is absolutely NOT the place to start. This review will probably contain spoilers both for earlier and this collection, so don’t read it unless you’re completely caught up. The first volume is Welcome to Lovecraft. In this final volume, the Locke kids have to confront the evil that has been haunting their family for over a generation. If there was any doubt that […]

Definitely not a bedtime story!

Daemon Hall by Andrew Nance

October 16, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

I’m not one to search out horror. I don’t read horror, I don’t watch horror movies, and I only go to haunted houses because I think they’re funny. (And I used to work in one. So yes, I go to judge.) And Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark gave me nightmares as a kid. So I can’t really say why I picked this up. Our general story is that a famous horror writer is having a contest for kids in his old hometown. Kids […]

Sam, Lielet and a brain-eating monster of folklore

Little Girls by Nicholas Aflleje

October 15, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A book that was part of the recent graphic novel read-a-thon was Little Girls by (among others) Nicholas Aflleje. Along with, Sarah Delaine as the main artist contributor and Sina Grace giving a rave introduction (and I mean rave review: like almost give the whole story away, while making your visual taste buds want to devour the book. Therefore, if you are easily swayed by introductions/reviews do not read the intro first.) a story of two girls in Ethiopia come to life. Grace also spoke […]

I will live, thought Saul Laski.

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

October 14, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a behemoth of a horror novel by Dan Simmons, enjoying a little renaissance right now as the creator of The Terror and he’s a bit of a genre-jumping writer working in horror, science fiction, historical fiction (usually with a twist), and mystery. This novel starts in a concentration camp during WWII when we meet Saul Lasky, a Polish Jew, confronting his greatest terror, a Nazi commandant her refers to as The Oberst. We then jump shockingly and jarringly into the first person narration of […]

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