The action and fear continue in the third installment of the Black Winter Series.
Again, I feel like saying much of anything specific will ruin the first book! But much like the first three it's an easy read and moves quickly. Coates is so good at taking away her characters safety and forcing them (you!) into situations that just suck! Little time is wasted on backstory which is always nice. Great read.

I made my yearly book goal 🎉
Tagged my favorite so far. Tom Papa is the best 🥰

#manicmonday #LetterB
@CBee @La_Cori Thanks for the invite to play!

📘 the Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
✍️ Octavia Butler
📽️ The Burbs
🎤 Jon Batiste
🎶 Big Empty by STP

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This book is fantastic.

In one of the book groups I'm in everyone is raving about this book. I don't usually jump on the new book band wagons, typically I'm a year (or more!) behind. But this one sounded interesting so I thought I'd throw copy on hold on my Libby app..... 😶 looks like I'll still be a year behind 😆

#bookhaul
Always love scoring some old school Goosebumps books!

A friend gave this to me since we've been on a spooky book kick recently.
I was super confused having seen the miniseries by Stephen King how this related. As it turns out this was part of their marketing for the miniseries, which I find super cool.
It's an easy read and I think it's done really well. I've read some books acting as diaries or letters that just don't follow the format but this reads as a diary.

I really don't know how to review the rest in this series without spoiling the first book . . .

I read this one last summer the same week as the first one! I was so excited for the series that we drove 45 minutes to Barnes and Noble for me to buy the rest of the series.

I'll just say that this one is just as good as the first. There were a few places I felt the story dragged but not for long and really not enough to hurt the story at all.

Picked this up out of my daughter's stack of library TBRs. Again, I don't read a lot of graphic novels but this was super fun. It has 5 short stories with images that could stick with you as well as "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"

@Eggs #WonderousWednesday
1) I was always obsessed with my Grandma's bookshelves. And my mother always took the time to read to me when I was little.
2) Grady Hendrix and Genevieve Cogman
3) I really am no good at book clubs but I do join my church's summer book club every year. This year we are reading the YA book "This Book is Gay"

This is the first book in the 4 book Black Winter Series. I read this book in an afternoon last summer completely ignoring my children and husband and animals!
It is just so good, you don't really know what's going on but it sets up the rest of the series beautifully.
The story begins with a young independent single female and a car crash. A stranger saves her but there's something odd about him and his house and the outside world.

I don't read comics or graphic novels very often so I'm not very well qualified to review them but I sure do love me some Squirrel Girl!

Part of her Lily Dale series, but can be read without having read any of the others.
An easy read about a dad taking his blind daughter back to his wife's hometown to clean out a house after the wife and wife's mom have passed away.
This one is pretty fast paced and focuses mostly on the story instead of back story and catch up which is really nice. I wish the rest were like that!

Short, but a great summer horror read! I read it last summer and got on a Daryl Gregory kick for awhile.
Anyway!
Think "Final Girls Support Group" only less campy. Definitely goes down a road you aren't expecting. And the characters are fantastic!

A crow and his dog traverse Seattle during the Zombie Apocalypse.

This book is not what I thought it would be but was very enjoyable. The writing fluctuates between redneck and poetry. I've never read anything like it!

I've been absent for a minute, as I seem to do from time to time. So gotta catch up review wise!

Anyone else Darcy Coates obsessed? I am eating this book up with plans to run to the Barnes and Noble to get the rest of the series tonight. She's so good!

Has anyone read these books? Do you need to read them in order? Are they any good?

Loved the first book in this series but really didn't dig the second. Hoping this one has a more epic feel to it. We'll see what happens.....

Book 6 of the Invisible Library series is just as fantastic as the rest. 5 stars!
This series involves worlds of Fae, Dragons, Humans and Librarians all trying to coexist. There are worlds of chaos and worlds of order. And in the middle of it all is a not so average Librarian named Irene.
Cogman is an incredible writer who easily wraps up the reader in adventure. Her writing is so smart and her love of books shines.
Read these books!

A teenage girl comes to terms with her mother's death and her own abilities in the town of Lily Dale, the birthplace of the spiritual movement.
Man, I really want to like these books but....they are really just kind of okay. The story itself is good but it is so drawn out and repetitive. I frequently scanned pages because Staub was rehashing something she had already done before.
Maybe worth your time if your going to read the next series. Maybe.

A 90's Southern housewife is confronted with a monster. You walk with her while she attempts to juggle it all while dealing with this monster.
Gory in a way that only Hendrix seems to be able to accomplish, he left my stomach squirming. For real, this might be too much for some people. His satire in this one felt more frustrating than funny, but maybe because that's because I'm a housewife
Not my favorite Hendrix, but overall I really liked it.

A man goes through a horrible family tragedy which eventually leads to a conversation with God.

I've read a lot of reviews and it really seems to be a love or hate situation and I find myself rather in the middle.

The story was engaging and entertaining and the ideas presented in the theology side were great! But nothing life changing for me. And honestly I found that the story side got lost during the theological side.
Worth the time to read.

I went from "Haunted" to "The Shack" I needed some religion after that first story...
Anyways, love finding notes from previous readers in books. It's fun to see what they found important, or offensive.

First, the cover glows in the dark and that is super cool and I didn't know until I turned off the lights 😆
Second, after 22 pages I'm gonna be all done..it's just too gross for me.
I've read Palahniuk before but this just seemed a bit too far for my liking. Maybe I'm just getting old....

In the third installment of this YA Lily Dale series, Calla is coming to terms with who she is and slowly unravelling the secret of her mother's death. At the same time she juggles boys and friends and family.
I really like the overall story going on, but the way its told is repitive. Having read other books by Staub, it almost feels like she is "dumbing down" this series. I enjoy it enough to read the next book.

Oh my heart! 'A Little Sacrifice' will get you right in the feels. I wasn't expecting that.....

Book mail! My books from Idependent Bookstore Day came. I've already read Horrorstor, but it's one worth having on your shelf. Hendrix has the coolest books! I've never read VanderMeer but I'm excited to see what he's all about.

Finished this one up the other night with my new favorite mug.
Book 2 in the series. There is a lot of recap that made the begining a bit sluggish and the story a bit thin. I have to be honest, that I am not sure I would like these if I hadn't read the adult series first.
This one deals mostly with Calla starting school and dealing with her abilities. I liked it enough that I've already started the next one.

❄️ Whelp.... with this unexpected snowfall, tis a good day for a stack of books, a blanket, and coffee. ❄️

A teenage girl looses her mom and decides to spend the remainder of her summer with her grandma while her dad gets them settled in their new life.
But the girl has much to learn about her Momma's paat and how she grew up. She also has a lot to learn about herself and spiritualism.
Mostly this books feels to be setting up the series on the whole and is not much of a story on its own, which was dissapointing. But overall a good, quick read.

What did I just read?
So....a woman goes to take care of two children who have lost their parents and are staying with their uncle who doesn't want to be bothered. After that? Well after that is to be determined by the reader. Maybe some ghosts? Maybe naughty kids? Maybe crazy people? Who knows!
I'm glad to have read it and know what the story is but I probably wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

Halfway to my year's reading goal! Such a difference from last year, which was such a struggle to concentrate and find books I wanted to read.
Favorite book, so far, tagged.

I really like escaping to Lily Dale. So far the YA books are just as good as the adult series.

Library book fair haul 😍 30 bucks for loads of happiness.

Happy Birthday to me 🎉 Bookmail on your birthday is the best 😃

Luna and I have taken over my kids game room and we will finish this book! I haven't read a classic in awhile and it is kind of kicking my butt for such a short book.....
#CatsofLitsy
#longestshortbookever

Obsessed. I am obsessed! It's a book of short stories fleshing out the history of the Witcher (a monster killer), mixed with a current timeline that I am assuming is leading into the next book, which is already on its way in the mail to me 🎉
Funny, dramatic, well thought out and entertaining. The monsters are clever and scary and familiar. This has jumped right up into my favorites of all time.
🎶 Toss A Coin To Your Witcher🎶

This is a great book for kiddos about giving and getting consent. It's blunt, not awkward, and funny. Honestly, I think any age could stand to give this a read, including adults. Highly recommend!

I think this book is supposed to be read slowly and in the dark. So that's what I'm doing.

I swear I know this story already but I can't place it. I haven't watched Bly Manor yet.... It's driving me nuts!

This is a book about the people in your family and how you can be a less crappy person. And I love it. It's hilarious, and blunt, and surprisingly charming.

Before you read this book, check out his stand up so you can hear his voice while your reading, because I am sure that added to my enjoyment.

Overall, I believe this book will bring most people joy, so read it! We could all use a little more joy.

The perfect review for this book can be found at the link below https://www.decafjess.com/2017/08/astrophysics-for-people-in-hurry-by.html

Essentially she tells you that this book is overwhelming, and she is right. There is so much information and it comes so fast! So to read this book, don't be in a hurry. Sit down slowly read one chapter with a notebook and the time to think about what you've read. So much goodness 🌌

I frequently felt I was missing something while reading this but what I did get I liked so much, I'm puttingt this as a pick and looking into the rest of the story! Really happy to be have been introduced to this series.

Nerds! You want these books! I got them for my expecting nephew but have decided we need a copy for our house as well 😁🤓🎲

This was a short, informative listen. I really enjoyed his voice and insight on how caffeine works and feels. I would never myself give up my beloved addiction, but it's interesting to hear someone else do it :)

I was pretty excited for this book after reading the Snowman which I could not put down. I had been advised to start with book 3 as the first two books were suggested to be rather blah, but who am I to listen to good advice? This book is indeed blah. There are some super cool Aboriginal myths that play into the stoy but the story goes all over and that makes it not fun.
I will be skipping book 2 and moving onto book three 😁

Wisconsin is being her normal crazy self and giving us a day of summer before second winter. Reading this while I wait for my next Witcher books to get here. Tom Papa makes my heart smile as a stand up so hoping this book does the same

I was given the advice to read The Snowman as my first Jo Nesbo novel and if I liked it I could start the series at his third book as the first two apparently aren't any good. (More on that later)
This book follows a dectetive trying to solve what may or may not be a string of murders. It is scary, intense and the story moves quickly with several twists I really didn't forsee. Needless to say, I started his first novel the next day.

Holy wow is this an amazing book. Hauntingly relevant to today's world.
An African Americans woman in the 70's begins to travel back in time.
This was was my first Butler book and I can not wait to pick up the next one. Her writing is so smooth you simply fall right into her world.

Some really great authors in here! I skipped a few stories here and there that were either too gross for me or just didn't spark my interest. The hardest part for me was trying to figure out the age range for this book. In some cases it felt that the age of writing was too young for the story being told. I think this may be a case of my expectations being too high. So even though it's a so-so I'm still happy to have it on my shelf.