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Night Shift by Stephen King

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Took me long enough to get through this one. But my brain was not in a great place when I started, and I had to wait to read a bunch of freaky-deaky stories until my brain felt better. Which it did over the weekend, and I zoomed through this. Stephen King’s imagination is a wild place, especially Stephen King of fifty years ago (some of these stories were published in the 60’s, even though the book was published in 1978). Some of the stories didn’t […]

Another feel-good entry from T.J. Klune.

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

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For me, this needed just a little more dark elements to balance out the schmoop, which is a thing I’m still not fully on board with in terms of Klune’s writing, although it hit me less here than it did in Cerulean Sea. But overall this was a lovely read, like a warm hug. While I do have some criticisms, mostly to do with an overdose of earnestness and not enough subtlety (also known as schmoop), I really did enjoy this book. It was an escape […]

I had to start this book over again four times before I could get into it, but it was worth it in the end.

The Witness for the Dead (The Goblin Emperor, #2) by Katherine Addison

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You’ve really got to give this one a minute. Similarly to the way I felt about Addison’s first novel (under this penname at least) The Goblin Emperor, the names and the naming system and the worldbuilding are A LOT. Unlike with The Goblin Emperor, there is no glossary, and we are not joining a world as the fish out of water along with the main character like we were with Maia in the previous book. Our main character here, Thara Celehar, a Witness for the […]

This book gave me *a yearning*. #CBRBINGO – Flora

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers

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“. . . the robots left the factories and departed for the wilderness.” “Before long, Dex was no longer nursing something as simple as an odd fancy for a faraway insect. The itch had spread into every aspect of their life. When they looked up at the skyscrapers, they no longer marveled at their height but despaired at their density—endless stacks of humanity, packed in so close that the vines that covered their engineered casein frames could lock tendrils with one another. The intense feeling […]

Stuart Turton is an imaginative little turd. I might be a fan for life. #CBRBINGO – Reader’s Choice

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 28/30 This was one of the last books I read in my thirty day book binge, and I think it says something about how good it was that even though I had some book fatigue going on, I happily and quickly finished this in less than two days. It’s not a huge book, but it’s not small, either. Like Turton’s first book, this is a mystery at heart, and also like his first book, there are some complicating factors […]

When I say gross, I mean nasty. Do not read this while eating.

Chew, Vol.1: Taster's Choice by John Layman

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 21/30 Haha, what a weird, gross book. I liked it. I mean it, if you can’t handle seriously nasty things (mostly involving tasting and smelling, and bodily fluids, and gore) stay away from here. If you’ve got a strong stomach and appreciate a wacky premise, this might be for you. Basically, Tony Chu is a cop, who is a cibopath, meaning he can sense the histories of what he eats. This basically means all he eats is beets in […]



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