I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
#ABookADay2024
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
#ABookADay2024
pickFor days when you dream of calling your enemies “fatherless curs” just before enjoying some aggressive negotiations with your Crom-given broadsword…there is Conan. The original and best still holds up with imaginative short stories of adventure in a long forgotten time. You don‘t have to know or care about any of the modest world-building…each clever, funny, exciting tale catches up with Conan right before the mayhem begins. Crom protect you!
This was the year that I discovered the wonderful & weird works of Richard Sala who unfortunately died just a few years ago. Blending elements of mystery & horror in a pulp style, the first work I read by Sala I read this year was Poison Flowers & Pandemonium. However, it was when I read “The Chuckling Whatsit“ in July that completely won me over with the sinister & bizarre storytelling. It was as if David Lynch & Charles Burns (cont)
Read like the wind: “While the other students at her Manhattan all-girls private school arrive immaculately pressed, stern nursemaids in tow, the 12-year-old muse of Keogh‘s slim cometlike debut straggles in “hot and breathless, tearing up on skates or on foot.”
Meg makes the city her oyster, with all the grit and pungency that little bivalve implies. But it‘s Keogh‘s prose, bright and ruthless, that breathes life into this odd, vibrant book”
pickIt took a little bit for me to get into this story, but it eventually really took off. The last quarter especially went like gangbusters. I liked the way the story ended, tying up enough loose threads to give a sense of closure but leaving it open enough that the characters feel like they‘re living on past the end of the book.
pickThese stories are a stone cold blast!
Omg what an amazing package of goodies!! Thank you so much @quietjenn for this excellent book selection (which I can‘t wait to read) and these treats (which I have already started eating)! The candle smells great and am loving all the socks, especially the adorable little grim reapers. Happy Halloween! #hhs #hhs2023 @wanderinglynn 🎃🖤🎃
pickMy first book by Thompson, dubbed by a critic as the “Dimestore Dostoyevsky.” And very fitting too: this paperback reads like a Central Texan “Crime and Punishment” where deputy sheriff Lou Ford is our killer, and an incredibly psychopathic one at that. As narrator, Ford lets us wade through the swamp of his dark psyche as he struggles to keep up innocent appearances in his small hometown, recently the scene of several coldblooded murders…
Hey #TeamCryptKeepers. I thought I would add a bingo for #Scarathlon since most of our team seems to like Thrillers, and i love bingo. Give yourself points for each line 20pts. The whole board 100pts. @StayCurious @Clwojick Please show your post with book read and bi go board with the spots for that book.
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