pickLoved the concept, wish it went somewhere with it. Still, I had a good time! Just not a great one.
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pickLoved the concept, wish it went somewhere with it. Still, I had a good time! Just not a great one.
An off brand Garfield bong exists every so briefly in Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI. #justthefacts
pickRead this while doing laundry this morning, always happy to revisit this series.
bailedI have been 100 pages into this book for 2 months and I can't bring myself to go back to it. Something about the writing! My brain can't take it! #OokBOokClub
pickI just love to think about and read about movies! Very thoughtful essay collection.
pickThis book sort of snuck up on me? Like, it was fine at first and then it didn't really change in any way but it got me. Not unlike the romance in it, I suppose!
pickShort and decidedly not sweet, I enjoyed this series of Very Unfortunate Christmases.
I was hesitant to start this one because I had, uh, a bad time in grad school, but I'm enjoying it so far. The bad time is different enough to not set off my decade old stress signals.
I think this paragraph is a good example of the problem I am once again having with this book - I feel like it's constantly skipping over dialog or happenings with the narrative just saying "Moist did this." Why not just write this dialog?
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I have just realized I am reading this too early! Because the Long Blank books are so forgettable that my brain elided over them! Whoops!
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I am trying to put my finger on what doesn't feel right about this (because it didn't feel right the first time and it doesn't feel right now) and: maybe it's the very long speeches people are giving uninterrupted?
(Moist also hasn't been in it much, for a Moist book, but that's more disappointing than anything.)
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Starting this book for #OokBOokClub and I am reminded: I don't much care about trains. It was one of my problems the first time around!
Starting this book for my horror book club and I cannot tell you the dread I'm feeling, not because it is scary, but because I remember how Boy, Snow, Bird ended and I'm worried about this book doing something similar.
so-soYou ever see a book spend 80% of its page count undermining its own message?
1) the tagged book, plus comic anthology The Sleep of Reason. Last movie that did it (and had me locking my interior doors!) was the original Black Christmas.
2) Oh gosh, I read a lot of genre, so there's so many! But also my brain is insisting that I've never read a book in my life. Let's say the season appropriate Food Fright, a goofy little novella.
3) Any color I wear any other time of year!
#wondrouswednesday
pickOne of the grossest possible pandemic books
Me not finding these stories scary is not a big deal (I love horror but l don't often find it scary), but some of these so far, I'm not even sure how they are intending to be scary. Interesting choices!
pickAn interesting read because Sir Terry certainly reused ideas - a lot of the non Discworld stuff eventually found its way there. Still, enjoyable! Fav non Discworld story is the Christmas horror one.
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Gotta say, the note in front of Theater of Cruelty is right: it IS a lot easier to understand I you know about Punch and Judy (knowledge I lacked when I first read this as a child).
Also, very funny that it took books and books for Vimes to see Death (and then he doubts the reality of the moment), but Carrot is out here interviewing him ASAP.
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Taking small breaks in my spooky season reading to try and catch up with the #OokBOokClub and the thing that caught me this morning: he made up an episode of Star Trek???
pickJohnathan, YOU IDIOT
A veeeeeery slow burn, and it was lacking in the knife sentences I associate with Greenhall, but I liked this.
I was going to say that Jonathan is the most relatable freak Greenhall has written yet (for what that's worth), but then he said that capybaras are unattractive. Wrong, Johnathan!
Just the most recent time I have cried reading this book
pickFictional true crime is okay by me!
pickRead this for horror book club, a special one where we're doing a combo meeting with the crime book club. This is way more a book for them than for us, but it was fine. You want some noir? This book's got it!
pickMe: see, book, here's a less repetitive way to explore the idea of cyclical happenings!
The Book: no one remembers the format or content of your review for The Remaking, this is a joke for no one
Me: :(
I have been so tired the last couple of nights and this hardcover is in the size class where I don't want to read it while laying down. My reading life, it is hard :(
pick2022 is a hell of a time to read this book! Hello you middle class Georgia people, with your multiple homes and your seemingly infinite vacations, and your evil house next door. Rooted in 70s norms, this book needs you to extend it some grace. Still, sometimes a book is a series of unfortunate events and I liked it!
After hearing good things about this book for half of forever I'm finally getting to it! So far this house kills animals and makes you gay, so a mixed bag!
bailedBailing on this one because first I found it boring and then, when we got to the cross dressing portion, it became so galling cis-centric that I could not go on.
pickEnjoyable enough, but single POV romances are just starting on the back foot, for me! Get me in that other brain!
pickLow pick. This book is a bit unclear sometimes, but it gave me the thing I wanted, which was a skeptic seeing a ghost.
Can't believe I bailed on one book about arsenic poisoning only to stumble into another book about arsenic poisoning.
bailedDidn't take this book on my weekend trip, and when I got back to it the main emotion I felt was "tired", so I think that's a bail!
I wish this book that I'm guessing is about a lady learning to do a murder was moving a touch faster.
pickDo the stories always make sense? No! Are they mostly good anyway? Yep!
pickNever going to love an ideology where anger is only the domain of devils, but I enjoyed quite of bit of this medieval horror road trip.
