bailedJust can‘t do it. If I have to hear about the walls bleeding again, I am going to scream! This book felt more like a cozy horror story than anything actually scary. It has humor in it which is great but not what I was expecting. Looooooong chapters, slow progression in the story, repetitive and a potty mouthed daughter that overly rivals my own mouth, made me say #hailtothebail
pickA good story about the five children who survived a cult, four of whom have spent 15 years trying to make sense of it. Chapters from the past and chapters from the present culminate in the discovery of what really happened all those years ago. I had to suspend my sense of disbelief to get to the end of this one. A soft pick as the characters didn‘t really resonate with me, yet the mystery kept my attention.
I tried to read this book when it was first translated into English in 2020, and I couldn‘t. 2020 was too stressful a headspace for me to read this. I was sure it would give me nightmares. I‘m giving it another try now, and while it is still a nightmarish premise (humans raised and slaughtered for meat…not a spoiler, just a warning for the squeamish), the book is also well-written and beautifully translated. But I can only read it in small doses.
pickFinally back on Litsy - hello, again! This book was CREEPY and unsettling. The writing was great and I loved the characters. Definitely preferred this to the first two Sworn Soldier books by the same author, though those were good in a different creepy way.
pickSomehow I‘ve never read this. I‘ve seen the movies, preferring the OG, a they‘re good, but vampires don‘t really scare me. This, though…had some creepy moments. I expect nothing less from Uncle Stevie!
pickNight Side of the River, by Jeanette Winterson (2023)
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Premise: A collection of ghost stories and personal reflections on the paranormal by a contemporary master of short fiction.
Review: The worst thing I can say about this is that it‘s uneven. It starts off strong, with some seriously disturbing tales of haunting by AI and other virtual technology. ⬇️
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So damn good. Noelle W. Ihli does it yet again. Can‘t recommend it enough.
The second of 2 redeeming things from some social plans that my bus screwed the pooch on tonight…
That makes 4 SK books scored at a discount for the journey I‘ll be taking myself on through some reads of my dad‘s favorite author in his honor and eventually in his memory.
I‘m not sure if I‘ll be able to purchase any more that are on the list until next month, but now I just want to keep going on this mission!!
I may have lost some money on some social plans that didn‘t work out this evening, but here‘s 1 of 2 things that redeemed the evening when I got back to my apartment tonight.
Book mail FTW!!
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David Rush was an Eagle Scout.
Was.
In addition to his scout training, he had secured an ROTC scholarship for his first two years at Missouri State and frequently spent weekends camping with his uncle, Lt. John Rush, a retired medical officer in the United States Marine Corps.
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