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When you're too excited to wait to open your Book of the Month box.....so you take it to work and open it there! 🤭📚📚📚 #botm

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My first December #Roll100 pick finished, #26 Any Backlist . I have been slowly working my way through T.Kingfisher‘s backlist the last couple of years, liking both her brand of creepy horror & retellings. This one was a bit of a slow burn for me but I enjoyed it. It was more creepy than scary & left some questions unanswered at the end but I enjoyed it. How can you not like a setting that‘s a museum/curiosity shop in a small town? 😱

I'm always late to pick my books, and this month is no different. Luckily, the slight delay for Dark Sisters will have my box arrive once I'm back from vacation. Snagging the Braithewaite this month because my procrastination caused me to miss out in November.

The Call of Cthulhu (and other stories), by H.P. Lovecraft (1928 etc)
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Premise: Classic tales of terror and dread about the potential awakening of a long-dormant power.

Review: This is as powerfully atmospheric and dread-inspiring as reputed. It‘s also as unabashedly racist as reputed. It‘s a telling window into the anxieties of an age that has sadly proven to be not as bygone as we‘d thought. Yikes. ⬇️

Reading has been slow for me this week as I had friends & family visiting for an early Christmas holiday. 🤪

Ornament was a gift from a coworker - it‘s too perfect, lol

Indie publisher Bad Hand Books and author Benjamin Percy are collaborating with Stephen King to publish a monthly newspaper called The End Times. A post-apocalyptic newspaper set during the time of The Stand. I love it! The layout was well-designed, just like a traditional newspaper, and the content was captivating. I‘m thrilled that I signed up for this unique reading experience. Details on my blog.

abookandadog.com/blog/the-end-times

My husband really enjoys this game, so we both read this comic when it came out. He ended up liking it more than I did, but I also never played the game. The art style was fun. My favorite character ended up being Nana. Personally, I wish this story focused more on the building of the cult and less on all the fighting.

The absolute dread I felt as the story moved toward the end was spine chilling. This is a graphic, horrific book about cannibalism, grief, and mommy issues. I was horrified, disgusted, and mesmerized. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A random late night musing from karaoke night at the local dive bar...

Does anyone else start singing Bush's Machinehead when they see the title of this book or is it just me?