I have been so busy the past few months with my own book and now assorted hurricanes, that I didn’t have a chance to post reviews of all of the books I have been reading. The first bunch is a combination of horror and autobiography, which pretty much sums up my interests of late. Anyone have a good horror autobiography to recommend? In the meantime, here are a few titles from my recent reading list: The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and […]
It’s about ethics in zombie journalism!
Zombies! So, I don’t have much luck with zombies. Stephen King’s Cell was pretty good, and Max Brooks’s zombie books are golden, but everything else is…..well, not worth talking about. Two things prompted me to give this one a go: I will always give zombies a go, because I always want those stories to be good (even though they rarely are), and Mira Grant is the pseudonym of Seanan McGuire, a fairly well-liked author in these parts whom I’ve never read. But I came away […]
“Nothing good happens in the middle of the night, right?”
Elizabeth receives a call late one night, and it’s the worst news she can imagine. Her son, Tommy, has vanished into the local woods without a trace after spending the day at his usual hangout, a large split boulder deep in the woods that the boys have been calling Devil’s Rock. The friends he was with seem to be hiding something and there are no other leads on where he might have gone. As the official investigation into his disappearance stalls, Elizabeth begins to see […]
It’s all over and I’m standin’ pretty
I enjoy post apocalypse fiction. There is something about the society and all its excesses breaking down and mankind being stripped to its bare essentials that appeals to me as a literary trope. The means in which the world ends is simply a MacGuffin, the device that propels the story forward and tells us what happens to mankind when it has to focus solely on survival. The Passage is similar in that regard, though the concept of a viral vampire apocalypse is intriguing. In […]
Women are always the strong ones. [gratuitous David Tennant]
“You couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.” I will admit I was not immediately into this book. It opens from the point of view of a father writing to his dead daughter which was a bit overly emotional to me. Then cut to one insufferable woman who hates on the other mother’s at her daughter’s basketball game all […]
Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.
Drumroll…………. It makes its second appearance in my Cannonball Read in as many years. (Here is my review from last year.) But dangit, it’s just absolutely outstanding all over again. Honestly, I might be at a loss for words now, and I think that’s because Stephen King took all of them. All the words. It is so long. But it reads so fast! I can’t put it down, and I don’t want to put it down! It’s just one of those books. So, the timing […]
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