With all my catch up posting last night I almost forgot #huggehourreadathon I got the Thanksgiving decorations up, made a pot roast for Sunday family dinner and we tried out a new card game. I was so tired that when all was said and done I maybe read 3 pages in this months book club pick.
#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Albuquerque with a crime scene photographer (and a graphic description of a gruesome death)
@Cupcake12
pickThis book was a pick, but a low one, for me. The story of a father and his daughter living in the deep woods for years, a place to hide from an event in the past, should have been in my wheelhouse. It‘s not a mystery, it‘s not a thriller, it felt like an expanded short story. And I had a few questions at the end. 🤷🏻♀️ With this book, I completed my reading goal for the year. I had kept the goal low, hoping I‘d read my New Yorkers. I did not.
(After pulling all the plants from the flower boxes I decided to leave this one in. Seems like the frost didn‘t damage it!) I‘m enjoying this story but am finding myself still involved with the characters I left behind in a previous book. I might need another day to transition to this one. Anyone else ever experience a similar book/character hangover?
Thank you!!! @Ellie_H I love everything!
Im such a nerd for local ghost stories! I can‘t wait to read both books! I love all the pumpkin scented items too. I just realized the bracelet didn‘t make it in the picture but i love that you made it! Thank you again!
#hhs24 @wanderinglynn
pickLargely set in a haunted bookstore, the actual ghost is but a fraction of what looms over and around Tookie… addiction, incarceration, “rehabilitation” vs isolation; generational traumas both cultural and personal; the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd.
It‘s a lot to unpack.
But worth the emotional time and effort.
pickThis final book in the Indian Lake trilogy finds Jade Daniels back in Prufrock, Idaho, the scene of multiple massacres. Now a history teacher, Jade has barely a moment of peace before violence begins to bubble up around her. More witness than participant, Jade tries to sit this one out if only the world would let her, while still churning out horror movie references to make sense of the unfolding nightmare. A bloody resolution to a gripping series
In my latest booktube episode, I report on 6 events at the Vancouver Writers Fest + talk about 2 audiobooks & 2 picture books that I read recently
https://youtu.be/ukKUqfGyqxo
#kidlit #WomenInTranslation #CanadianAuthor #Indigenous
IDK why, maybe because I'm GenX and did this myself, but I really do enjoy any story that involves wandering a cemetery -- as long as it's not horror, which I guess this might be, but not the kind that would give you nightmares like that. Nay, the nightmares would be the kind where you create problems while you try to solve problems. Into the Bright Open is on my TBR.
I read this back in February, but have been delinquent in posting.
so-soThe fact that this book sent me into a reading slump kind of says it all. Of the 19 'stories' included in this anthology, 13 of them are excerpts from larger works, not full short stories or even chapters, just moments. Each entries prefaced by a page and a half discussing and introducing the material, and the overall structure is divided into themes discussed further in the introduction. 1/?
