Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten “Books I Read Because Someone Recommended Them to Me.” This may be tough. I can generally remember that someone recommended a book but I might not remember exactly who recommended it. I’ll give it a try. Ahab’s Wife; or the Star-Gazer by […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 18, 2020! My husband and I did go to the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument last week for our anniversary. Most of the trails were really short (maybe half a mile roundtrip) but they took us through some beautiful areas! Left to right: The Story in Time […]
We meet Lizzie and her sister Emma shortly after the notorious murder of their father and stepmother. The women are living in fear of an unnamed horror that is taking over their hometown. They’re trying to research it and combat it as best they can but Emma is an invalid and Lizzie is–well, notorious Lizzie Borden. The horrors […]
Oh my goodness. This scared me to death! I got worried that I was going to have to put it aside. I gladly read most horror but one trope in particular seriously gives me nightmares and this book went there. I soldiered on though and holy cow, what a ride this was! I keep seeing it compared to a horror version of Little House on […]
Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share our top ten long book titles this week. I decided to choose from books I’ve actually read. I also decided to choose five compound titles and five simple titles. Compound Titles: Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 11, 2020! I’m prepping this post on Wednesday because my husband and I are hoping to drive out to the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument for some hiking for our anniversary weekend. It looks like a beautiful area, so we’re excited! Any of you who read children’s […]
I liked this well enough. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the Titanic and the paranormal elements. I was never entirely sure what was going on, although I did have all the pieces pretty early in the story. It is refreshing when I can’t quite put everything together. My biggest quibble is that the story could have been tightened up […]
4.5 Stars. I’ve read mixed reviews of this book but I personally enjoyed the heck out of it. I would catch myself relating the events from each chapter to my husband until I finally decided that he needs to read it for himself and stopped talking. Now I’m bursting at the seams with the need to discuss it with someone! The beginning was not […]
This week, That Artsy Reader Girl prompts us to share “Book Covers with Fall Colors/Vibes.” I chose books that I’ve either read or that are on my TBR. I also tried to avoid horror covers (I have plenty of those) although I did veer into some Gothic covers. Here’s what I found for my top […]
Welcome to my weekly update for October 4, 2020! Friday is our sixteenth wedding anniversary. I’m not quite sure where the time has gone! We normally take our big vacation for the year in October but that’s obviously out of the question this year. Oh well. When you’re traveling with work because you actually enjoy […]
Hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best on the first Saturday of every month, this meme asks us to start with one title and create a chain of bookish connections to see where it takes us. I purposefully kept my connections to spooky/horror reads for the Halloween season. My chain goes from The Turn of the Screw to Bird […]