Slade House | 
pickNot your average vampire story and also not your average vampires. The novel focuses on a few different people at different times, each nine years apart. We know what happens to them but we don't know the full story till near the end of the book. Definitely worth the read.
pickDelicious super natural thriller. Mitchell's vivid characterizing leap off the page. He makes the most of his shifting first-person narrators. Can't wait to read more by him.
pickNot what I went looking for, but an entertaining time, regardless. As much supernatural mystery as horror, with some very creepy moments. Just enough world building/lore: never felt confused or overloaded, just intrigued. The ending works as is, but the last character introduced makes me want to read more in this universe.Cannot speak to neurodivergent rep, will leave that to own voices'.
pickMy first Mitchell. Kind of out there, but in a good way. Perfect for this time of year if you enjoy unsettling haunted house reads. Audiobook was really well done.
pickBit of horror that I wasn‘t expecting. Felt a bit like Mitchell was trying on different styles in the early chapters, but love how it settles in to join a greater narrative thread (the Bone Clocks being the only other book of his I‘ve read) which leads me to read more.
Well…it looks like I‘ll be keeping with the #SpookySummer theme for this month‘s #bookspin and #doublespin. And I‘m not at all mad about it. I just love how these covers match. 👻😳🧛♂️
pickI loved this book! Just the sort of twisty, creepy mind-fuckery that I enjoy. Well-written and very fun. Thanks for picking this book for #LMPBC, Karen!
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My book was sort of a bummer, but this round was super fun. Thanks, group H!
pick@Chili thanks for picking this for our group. I really enjoyed it. Those crazy twins. Lol. It made me think of Clive Barker who I‘ve been thinking about a lot lately. This will be on its way to you tomorrow, Jenni. @sprainedbrain
pickwhoa! I did not expect that! Good read, with great Halloween feels. Kinda scary, mysterious, and pretty weird. I liked this one. Good narration too!
pickThis book is pretty damn good, especially so if you're into the David Mitchell mythology he's constructed. If you know about that, and you like that, then this is actually a must-read.
…the occult‘s like any religious order—or any bunch of extremists, come to that. It‘s all beer and sunshine and “We are your family” as long as you obey orders, but once you get your own ideas or start talking out of school, the knives come out.
pickDown a hard to find maze-like alley is a small iron door built into the wall. Beyond that door lies a mysterious garden where, from the perspective of 5 individuals, we experience the tension, thrills and terror that is Slade House. To say anything more would spoil the story.
One of the joys of reading is discovering authors I‘ve never read before and loving their work. That is the case for me when it comes to David Mitchell.
pickNot my usual kind of book but a friend recommended it and I must say I enjoyed it. Nice quick read, took a few pages to get into but once you do get into it, you can't stop. You just have to know what's next.
Hello my name is Donna and I'm a bookaholic 😅 i cant even go food shopping to asda without coming home with a book...or several! There's one more but its down stair and I can't be bothered going for it 😂 my bookcase is overflowing as is my kindle! This needs to stop 🙊
panI think I just hated the structure ... the way the plot unfolded. It almost made the story pointless. If it hadn‘t been an audiobook, I probably would have bailed.
pickSlade House made me want to read The Bone Clocks again. I feel I would appreciate it more now.
It is a short series of excellent character pieces set in the creepy sort-of world of Slade House.
As usual the writing is enviable and gorgeous.
The only thing I wasn't a fan of was the final chapter.
My goal is to get anything read, mostly my #bookspin, but I'll be glad to have the time to read anything.
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Started Slade House yesterday. From a technical point of view David Mitchell is one of my favourite writers. His prose is simply gorgeous and I envy it with all of my being!
From a constructing-a-decent-story POV he's a bit more hit and miss... let's see what Slade House has to offer... (I've told myself that if I read this and Black Swan Green, I can buy his latest offering Utopia Avenue!)
pickIt was like several short stories, all connected, and leading to the last story. I have not read The Bone Clocks, and I‘ve seen reviews that say some of the same creatures are in both. While that probably would have made this book more fun, I didn‘t feel like I was missing out on any info. Does that make sense? It‘s a good stand-alone book, quick read, fun little horror.
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I really enjoyed this book. I started reading knowing nothing. The only thing I knew was that it had something to do with a door. So it started off a little iffy for me, but then at around 25-30 pages, it got interesting. The plot was well developed and I enjoyed how the different "stories", so to speak, came together. The ending was a bit confusing for me though.
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Doing a little #frontporchreading while the weather's still nice. Soaking up as much sun as we can. The rains will be here sooner than I'd like, I think. I'm loving this book! It's about this creepy house and these creepy twins and how every nine years the house lures someone in through an iron gate and they never come back out. Spooookkkyyy! 👻
pickWow what a read! You know a book holds me captive when I start and finish it within the same day. It was a hypnotic read, told over 5 decades, every 9 years a new person is drawn to enter Slade House where they are never seen again. I was fascinated by the world within Slade House and what drew the victims in to its depths and their ultimate demise. A darkly hypnotic read perfect for rainy afternoon. #tea_sipping_bookworm #litsy #goodreads
pick🎧 Ahh where to start? Cloud Atlas, same sort of interlocked book. Bone Clock, reading it will help you understand this as Mitchell interweaves his stories but not necessary. More Gaiman than King. 5 chapters are 5 short stories that will sound repetitive as twins Nora & Jonah live in a mansion off Slade alley that only appears every 9 years for a day or 2 when they become uhh peckish so new characters every chapter. Creepy, atmospheric. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I did it! Today I finished my last book for the #BookSpinBonanza 😁 Reviews will follow the next couple of days. I'll cheat a little and start with my June books in May - because why not?
Books read: 31, 5 of those were audio books, 11 were from my TBR shelf. Also, not counted: 1 DNF.
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pickIt's my #Litsyversary today - yay! 🎉
Slade House can be read as a prequel to to the Bone Clocks, but also as a quick and creepy stand alone. Love Mitchells work ❤️
Number 3 of my list for the #BookSpin and #bookspinbonanza and therefore my book for the #DoubleSpin
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Todays stats of my #bookspinbonanza and the two official #bookspin rounds. Time to write some reviews!
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pickSpooky scary! Loved this one. In fact, was v creeped out when I had to get up last night and check on this boi— he was fighting with our outside cat through the window 🤦♀️
My May TBR, at least the printed ones. Now waiting for #bookspinbonanza to happen 😁
“People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go.” ― David Mitchell, Slade House
• This quote is just perfect for the times. ••••
Q: How many levels are you hiding right now??
Really liked this one. Strange, weird and a nail biter all in one
pick4 🌟 This book is so scary I have trouble sleeping at night! It‘s a story about a haunted house that lure victim into their house every 9 years. It start in 1979 until 2015, so there is 5 different stories in it but it‘s all related to one another. The vibe is really creepy like I‘m watching a horror movie 😭 But the story is really good! Have you read this book? What are your thoughts?
so-so“Read this in an afternoon.” Sometimes, that‘s the best summary of a book. Easy to read, intriguing to pull you through, but not something to inspire a lot of additional thinking. That said, he did a great job inventing a world, playing by its rules, and keeping forward momentum even through an intentionally repetitive structure.
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Days on trail: 87
Books completed on trail: 39
Unsettling and disorienting. Like a recurring nightmare. Quick read/listen. #libby
pickI dont know what it is about David Mitchell... I don't usually enjoy magical realism but I love his books. They're so weird and complex, twisting back on themselves, stories inside stories...his language is so efficient and his characters so varied, each with their own voice... Slade House is shorter and reads in a more linear fashion than Bone Clocks or Cloud Atlas, but it's still quite the trip. Read it in one sitting, loved it.
so-sothis book sucked me in but started to lose steam towards the ends. i liked it enough to maybe check out The Bone Clocks but not anytime soon. it was a cool creepy little story but something fell flat. idk. this was my first book from this author and i‘ve heard his other works are much better, has anyone read Cloud Atlas? is it worth a read?
finally getting around to this David Mitchell book. going in kind of blind so not sure what to expect but i‘ve heard he‘s a great storyteller
pickFINALLY! I‘ve had this book for four years and have meant to read it every fall season for the past three years 😬. It was great. A good companion to The Bone Clocks but can also stand on its own as a short, creepy read. 😨
Back on the Monday Train Litsy! And today I've got my #Top6 favorite haunted house tales. Now, technically, Hunting of Hill House should be on this list, but that's just too predictable!
Also, please note that not all of these are horror or even scary. I really do love an atmospheric, but not terrifying, spooky house story.
#LibraryBooks #RA #fiction #haunted #halloween
@Hestapleton - Sent this off to you today with a couple little “extras” for fun.
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pickI was thoroughly impressed with this book. It took me only two days to read and I was engrossed with the short story "chapters" that fueled the story's progression.
Two siblings survive off the souls of lured victims every nine years, and opens a great realm of an occult/fantasy theme. It is part horror, part suspense, part detective. I really enjoyes this book.
@Kaylamburson - Slade House, S‘Mores, & Snow!!! So much awesome in one envelope!! Thank you!!! I‘m excited to leap in 😃
pickReally enjoying this! Very Neil Gaiman ocean at the end of the lane-y.
#spooky #audiobook #audioknitting #soul #neilgaiman
Well, I'm in Reno for a convention and 3/4 of my boxes for my booth didn't show up 😭. I'm trying to let it go, and just enjoy the sun, pool, and my #LMPBC read Slade House. Stress can wait until the show starts tomorrow... or at least that's what I keep telling myself.
#ayupaugust #avenuesandallyways
The entrance to the titular house is found—sometimes—in an alleyway that hardly anyone goes down.... and once you‘re in, you don‘t come out.
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@Kaylamburson the book is in the mail. I can‘t wait to see what you all think of it.
