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Renovation Horrorshow (Or “I don’t deserve to be haunted by cows”)

Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

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Take reality TV ghosthunting, marry it with reality TV home makeover and then write a book about a Production Assistant (PA) working on said show and you get – Haunt Sweet Home!    And if you are me, you get a book that started stressing me out even before we got to the creepier bits. Mara is our lead character and she is sort of adrift. She’s an only child, the youngest cousin in a sprawling family of musicians (except she has no musical talent), […]

Soap Opera Level Drama & Ghosts!

Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

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I happened across this title, and had to read the synopsis, and a queer trans Jewish ghost story was something I didn’t know I needed in my life until that moment. I knew this was going to be full of drama (who announces their affair at Passover Seder?!) but it’s also so full of emotional nuance. Ezra grew up as the eldest daughter and he had a lot of those tendencies baked in where he is always trying to fix things for his family and […]

The might stand a ghost of a chance

All the Lovely Bad Ones Graphic Novel: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

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All the Lovely Bad Ones Graphic Novel: A Ghost Story (novel by Mary Downing Hahn) and adapted by Scott Peterson, Naomi Franquiz, Brittany Peer and  Joamette Gil is probably my favorite of the novels by Hahn turned graphic novel. And their Wait Till Helen Comes was always a favorite book, so you’d think that adaptation would be my favorite, but there was something about this one that captured me. It probably was because Helen had been a favorite, and therefore, nothing lives up to it, […]

Hitchhiking Once Again is a Dangerous Game

Murder Road by Simone St. James

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Murder Road by Simone St. James is a supernatural mystery/thriller and I’ll be honest I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it.  I read it in one day, so that says I wasn’t bored or distracted by it, but I also was left feeling a little “well …”  So for me, it’s a solid three-star read.  Fun, did its job by entertaining me but all felt a little … ephemeral at the end. Set in 1995, the story follows newlyweds April and Eddie who […]

Magic and Anxiety

Secret Passages 1985-1986 by Axelle Lenoir

The Ghostkeeper by Johanna Taylor

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Secret Passages 1985-1986 by Axelle Lenoir – 3 stars In an effort to untangle her complicated feelings about the loss of her cosmic twin, author Axelle decides to unspool her life in an off-kilter autobiographical comic. This is a surreal and funny graphic novel which depicts a year in young Axelle’s life as she starts going to school, forms a strange connection with the forest by her home, and begins to suffer in the grip of acute anxiety. The art is both atmospheric and humorous, […]

A few Bosch short stories and a two “just” Michael Connelly short stories

(Harry Bosch Universe #26.5) Switchblade by Michael Connelly

(Harry Bosch #14.7) Angle of Investigation by Michael Connelly

Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile by Michael Connelly

(Harry Bosch #14.6) Suicide Run by Michael Connelly

The Safe Man: A Ghost Story by Michael Connelly

Mulholland Dive by Michael Connelly

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This is Book 26.5 in the Harry Bosch Universe. I’ve read every actual book that isn’t a point something book in the Harry Bosch Universe, so I was excited to see this in my digital library. This is Book 26.5 in the Harry Bosch Universe. I’ve read every actual book that isn’t a point something book in the Harry Bosch Universe, so I was excited to see this in my digital library. I believe in this book Harry is in the retired from the LAPD, […]



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