pickFor our Christmas #childhorror selection, we read this extremely dark and pessimistic story about how parental “love” for their offspring can basically result in the genocide of humanity. In 340 pages, DiLouie covers a month and a half in a small town in the midst of a global phenomenon. This focus and the time he takes with the story makes it strong, and while it isn‘t always narratively satisfying, it is really effective: horrifying and moving.
pickDark. Feminist. Gothic. Angry. Dual timelines. Short chapters. Yesssssss
As all of my books are currently packed from my recent move, I went to B & N this afternoon to reread The Monkey in Skeleton Crew. While there I was happy to find the tagged book, recently reissued due to an adaptation. I've had my eye on it for awhile but copies have always been pretty expensive.
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so-soI got this from my book club‘s mystery Christmas book exchange. It was an OK read but I felt the writing had a tendency to be too repetitive, and some of the events felt too obviously like plot devices. Maybe I‘m just too cynical for ghost stories!
Book 10/60 #Read2025 @DieAReader
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Not sure when or if I can remember a book giving me goosebumps from the creep and fright. 😱 👻 This book was such an unexpected story and I didn‘t know where it was going. It was very well written. I highly recommend…but read it during the day lol 😅😶🌫️🫢 I also recommend her other book Hunted, it‘s a totally different story. 🥰👣👀
Starting next for the #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge
#LauraPalmer: Someone haunted
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so-soThis was…weird. Not scary, not even creepy, but disturbing. There‘s a short prologue that happens 100 years ago, then the bulk of the book that‘s 15 years ago, then the last 35ish pages in present time (relative, since the book was written in the late 70s). I think I read most of the book like 🤨.
And I have to say every time the town, Port Arbello, is mentioned, all I could think of was portobello mushrooms.
