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A whole bunch of horror

A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The elementals by Michael McDowell

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Later by Stephen King

The Sun Down motel by Simone St. James

The only good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The hunger by Alma Katsu

Lovecraft country by Matt Ruff

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Hi! My name is The Book Omnivore and I am a few months late to the Cannonball Read  party. I hope that’s ok. I’ve participated in CR a couple of times before but I always hesitate to join because some years I read loads of books and other years my brain refuses to read anything more complicated than the instructions for how you make tea, and I never know what kind of year it’s going to be. But having already read 27 books by May […]

Amazon’s Forward Collection is half-apocalyptic, half Black Mirror

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

Ark by Veronica Roth

Rand0m1ze by Andy Weir

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

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So I downloaded the 6 novellas that make up Amazon’s new Forward Collection, which appears to be a collection of sci-fi short stories by known authors (even though I have never anything by most of them). You can read them for free if you’re a Prime customer. I decided I will read them one each morning over a week and review them as I read them, but wait to post all reviews in one post. I will do it this way because these are short, and […]

Escape From the Present with… THE FUTURE!

Ark by Veronica Roth

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

Randomize by Andy Weir

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towlesl

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

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And you know what? The future isn’t that bad! Well, it is full of disasters- pandemic, plague, asteroids, climate change, robot uprising -but there are always sparks of humanity ready to push through none the less. Amazon’s Forward collection, a group of five short stories from some big names, throw some big ideas out into the universe and let you, in a way, choose your own adventure! I suppose there is a “correct” order in which to read these, but I didn’t bother. I don’t think […]

“This must be so difficult for you, Meredith.”

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

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I read the first chapter of this book when it first came out, and I think probably because of the Stephen King quote at the beginning “It scared the hell out of me” or something like that. I didn’t find it to be all that scary, but I do think the last 25-30 pages are incredibly tense and shocking, so I found that incredibly effective. But for most of the rest of the book, I enjoyed it and found it inventive, but not expressly scary. […]

Timely.

Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

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Survivor Song tells the story of a rabies-like epidemic through the lens of a friendship between the very-pregnant-and-freshly-bitten Natalie, and the fiercely-independent-and-protective-pediatrician Ramola. Natalie and Ramola have been friends since their days in college, and I found this to be a touching and realistic portrayal of a friendship forged in late-night chats over wine and cheese boards – a friendship that changes slowly as the women grow up and discover more about themselves, and then rapidly as the story progresses. In the opening pages of […]



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