A Place For Sinners

Growing up, monkeys, just based on tv, were animals who loved bananas, looked cute in tutus, and were pets for Michael Jackson. You grow up and find out they have complex social systems- like when a dog kills a baby monkey and they retaliate by taking 250 puppies and drop them from trees as retaliation in the Beed city of Maharashtra state in India. These two books make mention of these behaviors which is why this article caught my attention.

Trashcanman 🤗 2y

vivastory 2 monkeys did this!! That's wild! This reminds me of recently finding out about a chlamydia epidemic amongst koalas 2y

Reggie @vivastory omg, I had no idea they were going through that. Poor koalas. And I think it was more than two of them, I think they just caught only two. 2y

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Suet624 That‘s wild! 2y

Centique Holy shite! That is 🤯 😱 2y

Reggie @Suet624 @Centique right? The stuff nightmares are made of. 2y

Centique Hey Reggie did that second book from me get yo you from BD? It was an anthology from NZ. 🤞 2y

DivineDiana I too had a pet monkey when I was about 19. A squirrel monkey named Arlo. A friend could no longer care for him. It was quite an experience! 2y

Reggie @Centique not yet, but I will keep my eye out. 2y

Reggie @DivineDiana wow! That does sound like quite the experience. 2y

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Reggie

A Place For Sinners | Aaron Dries

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This, this is not for the casual horror reader. We meet Amity and Caleb, siblings from a small town in Australia who want to go experience the world while backpacking across Southeast Asia. It is in Thailand where their destinies will meet with others in this blood soaked tale. The writing was great, I enjoyed the internal dialogues of all the characters, but that last 1/3 took something out of my sails about this book. I still want to read👇🏼

Reggie more by him. Also, Amity is deaf. So that added a lot to this. 3y

CindyMyLifeIsLit I really like horror but I know there are many levels, and it gets REALLY dark! I‘m going to add this but I‘m not certain I‘m ready for really graphic stuff. I read one by Graham Masterton that seemed graphic to me and it still haunts me. I‘ll give it a try, though! 😬 3y

Reggie @CindyMyLifeIsLit mmmm, so there is this man from America in here who is in Thailand as a form of a test a punishment for being a coward all his life. One of his things is that he constantly feels beset upon by bedbugs that have these vicious teeth that chew away at him and then vomit and then continue. This is one of the tamest images in here. It‘s all in his mind and we haven‘t even gotten to the actual acts of violence in this book. Just👇🏼 3y

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Reggie a warning. 3y

TrishB Oh sounds interesting! 3y

CindyMyLifeIsLit @Reggie That doesn‘t sound too bad. The book I read had the villain kidnapping these girls and then stripping them to their bones while they were alive. They would pass out from pain, then wake up to find everything scraped from their legs and nothing but bone left. I don‘t know if this is actually possible to do and a person survive it, but it was a horrific image! It was presented in graphic detail,too. Is this book much worse? 3y

Reggie @CindyMyLifeIsLit lol, yeah, I think you‘d be ok. 3y

CindyMyLifeIsLit @Reggie 😁 3y

Michael_Gee @CindyMyLifeIsLit omg. 😳 That is horrifying! 3y

Michael_Gee Reggie, you have me so curious! I‘m kinda apprehensive to read it (didn‘t read your spoiler comments) but going to stack it! 3y

Tera66 I'm for sure not going to read this one?, but I love how you write your reviews! I love "blood soaked tale"!? 3y

Reggie @Michael_Gee I picked this up because he was on a list of queer horror authors. It meanders and it‘s sprawling and there feels like no hope. I actually dug it. The climax is in the middle of the book for me. So you‘ve got this huge firework in the sky that happens in the middle and the last 1/3 of this book is watching those spider legs of that firework go off on their own until they cease to exist against the a dark black sky. I think he needed 3y

Reggie a tighter editor or it‘s just been me getting to used to reading novellas or books less than 300 pages. 3y

Michael_Gee @Reggie Omg I‘m sold!! 3y

Reggie @Tera66 🖤 Thank you! And yeah, this isn‘t for a lot of Littens. 3y

CindyMyLifeIsLit @Michael_Gee It really was!! I had to put it down a few times because it was so disturbing. I guess I‘m ready for the horror big leagues now though! 😁 3y

Michael_Gee @CindyMyLifeIsLit lol I‘ll say! 3y

Centique Hey Reggie just checking that you‘re still at the same address? I‘m going to send you a book via Book Depository 😘 3y

Reggie @Centique Sorry for the late reply, Paula. I‘m actually on a bit of a holiday in Northern Colorado. I‘ve been hiking and catching up with a friend from when I lived in Las Cruces. Anyways, yes, I‘m at the same address. Thank you! 😊 3y

Centique @Reggie that sounds like a fabulous holiday. I hope you post us a picture of what it looks like! Excellent I‘ll get something delivered to you my friend (might come in seperate deliveries - but our postage/freight here has gone to crap in lockdown, not enough ships coming down here, so I think BD is the best option) 3y

Reggie I‘m here at the Denver Art Museum, just on a whim and just saw Water Lilies by Monet….😭Also thought of you because there is a bronze sculpture of Ana Pavlova (cause of the Pavlovas you make for holidays) by Malvina Hoffman. I also found an Ismail Kadare and picked it up but it is not Chronicle of Stone. 3y

Centique @Reggie oh that is good cos I‘m sending you Chronicle of Stone! And 3 other books I‘ve read this year that you liked the sound of. No worries if they don‘t strike your fancy though. What an amazing trip you had! Ana Pavlova as well - wish I could send you a pavlova too! 3y

Centique PS let me know when you get them and I‘ll explain why one of them might not seem like a “Reggie book” but I reckon it could be 😛 3y

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Reggie

A Place For Sinners | Aaron Dries

This is getting soooo good. I‘m in a place where everything kind of ratcheted up so much so that I wanna tell the man on his cell phone RIGHT NEXT to me because as you can see in the picture there‘s hardly any room here (ya‘ll know how it goes the empty parking lot, the empty restaurant) to shut up because it‘s getting really good!!! Lol Happy reading Littens!

Leftcoastzen A laundromat is definitely a place for sinners.😃 3y

Ruthiella I love your laundry reading updates! 😀 And WTF to the man next to you ? It weirds me out when people do that! (edited) 3y

BkClubCare @Ruthiella - creep 3y

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Reggie @Leftcoatzen sometimes it feels that way. Lol 3y

Reggie @Ruthiella @BkClubCare it wasn‘t that bad. Honestly, I didn‘t even realize he was there until this crazy ex boyfriend shows up in the middle of nowhere and starts this vicious to the death brawl that I hear RRRiiiiiing hello, yeah, I‘m here at the laundry. I told you I was gonna do it. What are we having for dinner tonight? Lololol and that‘s when I got up to do the pic and realized no one else was there. 3y

BkClubCare @Reggie - oh good? 😊 3y

Reggie The book‘s not for everyone because it is graphic and it‘s horror but there have been some really great, I didn‘t see coming at all, surprises. Which is nice. @BkClubCare 3y

BkClubCare @Reggie - still. Not sure which would be more unsettling- a full laundry mat or an empty one! But if the book is good, probably not really an issue! 3y

DivineDiana Powerful cover art. 3y

sprainedbrain 😂😂😂 3y

Reggie @DivineDiana the other covers of different editions of this book pale in comparison to this one. It‘s really striking. 3y

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