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I won't be able to not think about this in future.
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I'm also jumping on the StoryGraph bandwagon!
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Just read a couple Jennifer Thorne books back to back. I really like her writing style. She does amazing dialog and interpersonal conflict.
Lute was especially great. So good that I immediately decided to see what else she'd written.
Diavola got off to a fantastic start, but petered out a bit after the midpoint. Still worth a read, but I personally connected with Lute more.
#amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #horrornovel #horrornovels
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Kicked off #SpookySeason with The September House by Carissa Orlando. It was a fun read, sometimes quirky and funny, sometimes spooky, sometimes heartbreaking. The voice was excellent. Very immersive. I didn't love the ending (which I'll elaborate on in a hidden spoilery post in a minute) but everything up to the last two chapters worked brilliantly. (And the end wasn't terrible, just not what I wanted, so maybe that's on me 🤷) Definitely recommend.
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I really enjoyed Shaun Hamill's "The Dissonance." His previous book, "A Cosmology of Monsters" really blew my mind. That's always going to be hard to top (so creative and original!) but this definitely had the same level of world-building and fantastic characters that are easy to connect with.
#AmReading #Bookstodon #Horror #HorrorBooks #HorrorNovels #Books #Novels
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Finished up Josh Malerman's "Incidents Around the House" this morning. He really nails the child voice of the narrator. Very immersive POV. And there are lots of super creepy scenes. The overall story is a little basic, like, if you took away the individual creepy scenes and the immersive voice, and just read a synopsis, you'd be like, "I think I've read this already." But the writing makes up for a lot, and it's definitely worth checking out.
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Just finished Paul Tremblay's "Horror Movie." It was a really cool audiobook adaptation. There are pieces of a screenplay in it, and in the audiobook, those sections are done with a full cast as a table-read. They flub lines, and you can hear pages turning. It works really well.
Great story. Highly recommend.
I actually listened to it twice, back-to-back because the first time I was in the midst of covid and my fever-addled brain missed a lot.
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Finished reading Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak today. It was pretty good. It took most of the book to get to the part that made it unique, and that left the bulk of the book as a pretty basic haunting story (which is fun enough, but not groundbreaking.)
Still, a fun read worth checking out, and when it finally decided to be unique, it got suddenly really cool.
#AmReading #horror #amreadinghorror #horrornovels #horrorbooks #bookstodon
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Gimli and his new bff, Charlie, at puppy class today
#puppy #Corgi #goldenretriever #corgipuppy #goldenretrieverpuppy #puppysocialization
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Watching some Stargate SG-1, and I picture the producer discussion for this episode going something like this: "Hey, I need a smug white guy. Any ideas?"
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Wow, really enjoyed Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker. Beautifully, hauntingly written. #amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #HorrorBooks
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Wow, really enjoyed Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker. Beautifully, hauntingly written. #amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #HorrorBooks
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Wow, really enjoyed Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker. Beautifully, hauntingly written. #amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #HorrorBooks
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Wow, really enjoyed Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker. Beautifully, hauntingly written. #amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #HorrorBooks
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Wow, really enjoyed Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker. Beautifully, hauntingly written. #amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #HorrorBooks
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Currently binging "Little House on the Prairie" and "Pretty Little Liars," back to back with alternating episodes, and it is some culture shock, I tell you what.
#nowwatching #TV #littlehouse #littlehouseontheprairie #pll #prettylittleliars
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Up until I was, like, 19, I thought Disney invented the churro.
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Finished up Grady Hendrix's "Paperbacks from Hell" on the plane yesterday. Really fun tour through the cheese that is 70s/80s paperback horror. Hendrix is such a funny, entertaining writer, and the subject matter was great nostalgia, reminding me of a lot of things I read back in the day, plus leading me to a bunch of books that never hit my radar.
#amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #gradyhendrix
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33670466-paperbacks-from-hell
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Gimli, guiding us confidently through the corn maze on Sauvie Island
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Just finished reading Sarah Hollowell's "What Stalks Among Us," and if you like YA horror, I highly recommend it.
It was a cool, creative, original story. I loved the characters, and there was a solid, fulfilling character arc that felt organic and realistic.
I love horror mystery but find that in many books, the mystery is better than the reveal. That was not the case here. I was intrigued all the way through the finale.
#amreading #amreadinghorror #horror #ya #yahorror #Bookstodon #books
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Couple hours later, couple hours sweatier 😅
#running #portlandmarathon #halfmarathon #portland #rosecity #pdx
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#NowWatching Nightmare Before Christmas. You can't really see it, but that neighboring theater is playing Taylor, so I'm expecting a very loud Elfman / Swift battle of the bands
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Don't make any sudden moves....
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"Do you ever feel like you were meant for something greater?"
#corgi #puppy #corgipuppy #sniffspot #herding #cow #dogsofmastodon
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"Lucky Day" by Chuck Tingle was quite good. It's a creative idea, and the character arc is smooth, with constant, gradual progress, that makes the final change feel well earned.
There's a sci-fi aspect that is a fascinating thought experiment, but that made me ask a bunch of "yeah but what about x?!" questions, but, to paraphrase MST3Q, I should repeat to myself "It's just a book, I should really just relax."
Fun read. Definitely recommend.
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I'll have to sit with it a while to see if it sticks with me, but right now, Joe Hill's "King Sorrow" is a strong contender for all-time fav. Super creative idea with fantastic characters you really care about, and constant, immersive scene work. People say "couldn't put it down" but seriously, I couldn't.
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Really enjoyed Rachel Harrison's "Play Nice." Particularly the first half, which was full of this great sense of foreboding and creeping dread. The character drama was excellent. It would stand alone as a dysfunctional-family drama, so the haunted house is just a great bonus. And I'm a sucker for home-reno horror, I've always said the scariest part of any haunted house story is the plumbing.
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I think "Another" just took the spot of my favorite Paul Tremblay novel. It's MG, so a little less bleak than some of his work, but still definitely horror. The story feels more... personal, I think, than his other novels. I mean, his other novels have all been great, this just feels like a story that was important to him. If that makes sense.
Also, it's a great reminder that he is fantastic at writing in a kid's POV.
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Finished Stephen Graham Jones's "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" tonight. I always respect and admire Jones's stuff, but it's usually a bit too literary for me, and I have trouble connecting. Not the case with this one. I found the voice to be super immersive and engaging and got totally lost in the story. Highly recommended.