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Looking for Group | Alexis Hall
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I liked this but have reservations. Drew does not get the loot he wants from his guild after defeating a monster in Heroes of Legend, this online game he plays. He quits that guild and joins a new one where there is this healer named Solace, who presents as this elven beauty. Drew falls in deep like but then finds out Solace is also a guy. He has never had dates with guys before. Meets up with Solace/Kit and realizes, hey I also like guys. 👇🏼

Reggie Then they have a relationship where one person has to defend their life choices almost immediately and it feels grimy. But it‘s a romance so there‘s an HEA. It‘s cute and as someone who has played League of Legends for 10 years I chuckled a lot at the gameplay and personalities in here. HOWEVER my reservation wasat how easy it was for this guy to be, oh yeah I like guys, too. It reminds me of back in the day Ellen before she became unlikable and (edited) 3d
Reggie she was dating that woman who I‘m too lazy to look up but she‘s dead because she drove into that family‘s house. That same woman gave interviews saying “she fell in love with the person” (eye roll here) and then Ellen and her went on a tour they were gonna make a documentary out of when said woman ran off with the male camera operator. I‘m just wary of people falling in “love with the person.” Anyways this was a pick. (edited) 3d
CarolynM I thought this was a really sweet story, even though I had no idea what was going on in the game😆 3d
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Reggie @CarolynM yeah when I read this I thought unless you are a gamer, you might be lost. Also, I have to give her props for product placement because Drew is always drinking Dr.Pepper and all day today I was like, I‘m thirsty for Dr.Pepper. lol 2d
Bookzombie Margie Google here: Anne Heche 🙂 2d
Reggie @Bookzombie rip to her but she was the first person I ever heard referred to as a hasbian. 2d
Bookzombie @Reggie I have never heard that word before. I know she was in a lot of stuff but besides the Ellen relationship, I think about her in I Know What You Did Last Summer. 2d
Reggie @Bookzombie yeah the sister, right? She was also in a movie with Harrison Ford. Um I kept thinking her name was Celeste but it‘s because I think she had a psychotic break and they found her out in the fields saying she was from the planet Celestial or something like that. 2d
nikamavrody Interesting! “Group” reminds me of ‘group therapy.' 2d
GatheringBooks Happy new year, dear friend! Thinking of you today!! Hope all is well. 😍 what does hasbian mean???? Illuminate us!! 🤩 9h
Reggie @nikamavrody I think one of the people in here could have used your version of group in here. And that person just rubbed me the wrong way. 7h
Reggie @GatheringBooks Hey Myra! Happy New Year! And hasbian refers to a woman who used to be a lesbian. 7h
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The Garden: A Novel | Nick Newman
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2 elderly sisters in a dystopian future live in the kitchen of a huge estate and tend a garden. Everything seems fine until they discover they have a visitor from beyond their wall. I was pretty creeped out until then. There are chapters describing the before time with their mother and father. The visitor is a boy who we don‘t really learn a lot about. Newman still hits beats and the story has pace. Time goes on and the end made me cry. Pick!

Ruthiella I‘m intrigued! 5d
BarbaraBB Very good read 5d
Lesliereadsalot Loved this one! 5d
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Doll8455 Looks like one that‘s perfect for me. 5d
Bookzombie I would stack this if I hadn‘t already. Lol 5d
Reggie @BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot the dad shot himself, right? I just had this idea that maybe the mom killed him. I wasn‘t too sure. 4d
Reggie @Doll8455 @Bookzombie @Ruthiella I love when there are family dynamics at play during pressure cooker situations. Also, I love when there‘d are two people who see the same thing and have wildly different opinions of what happened. I hope ya‘ll like it if you get to it. 4d
BarbaraBB @Reggie I was thinking the mother killed him! What do you think @Lesliereadsalot ? 4d
Lesliereadsalot @Reggie @BarbaraBB I thought the dad killed himself because the gun was right there. 4d
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@Jas16 @Centique @Rissreadswithcats @ vivastory Thank ya‘ll for the wonderful Xmas packages. I‘m so spoiled and lucky to know ya‘ll. I hope everyone on Litsy had a wonderful Christmas!

Rissreadswithcats You are welcome Reggie. I hope you have had more reading time than me. X 6d
Centique I hope you love that book. When youre in the mood for a fever dream!! 6d
AnnCrystal 🥳🌟💚🤍❤️. 6d
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Lesliereadsalot Is that I See You‘ve Called in Dead in the back? I loved that one! Shark Heart too. Happiest holidays! (edited) 6d
Suet624 How wonderful!!! 6d
AmyG Hope you had a lovely Christmas! 6d
sarahbarnes Merry Christmas!! 🎄 6d
Jas16 I hope you had a wonderful holiday! 6d
TrishB Fabulous choices!! 6d
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The Nights Before Christmas | Vicki Lewis Thompson
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Rebound-insecure sex Christmas romance? The cover of this book is way hotter than the inside. Suzanne, having been dumped by her bf and therefore in the doldrums, is told about Greg by Terri, her friend. Greg is the hot handyman who is responsible for lifting the spirits of various women from the building if you know what I mean.😉Suzanne takes her chance and Greg and her fall in love. It was page 138 before the motor on this book even turns 👇🏼

Reggie over. And even then we take this sexual car on the most boring track. Like the one where people just run 4 times around so they say they can run a mile. There was a lot of insecurity in here that made me wish these people went to talk to someone instead of go into a bedroom. The wildest part of this book is that the 3-4 women who talked all their game about hot Greg is that none of them actually slept with him. Lololol WHAT?!!! flip genders 👇🏼 6d
Reggie around and hear how icky that sounds. Cause it still sounds icky for poor Greg. I still read it all to the end. So low pick. 6d
Suet624 As usual, I love this review of yours. 6d
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AmyG Hahahahaha 6d
CoverToCoverGirl 🤭😳 6d
Doll8455 Your reviews are fabulous! 6d
Reggie @Suet624 @Doll8455 Thank you ladies. 😁 5d
Reggie @AmyG @CovertoCoverGirl I think preinternet romances definitely hit different. Lol 5d
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Christmas Bride | Marie Ferrarella
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Christmas, second chance-fake marriage, romance. With her Nonna being 82 and having heart problems, Antionette ‘Toni‘ D‘Angelo decides to ask her soon to be exhusband if he will fake their relationship during a trip back home for Christmas for her Nonna‘s sake. Also, unbeknownst to everyone, Toni is pregnant. Can they survive Xmas or will the magic of the big Italian Xmas save their marriage? Duh, they forgive each other and fall in love again.

TheBookHippie Duh. 🤣 7d
CoverToCoverGirl Classic Harlequin… 🤭 6d
CarolynM Duh, indeed 😆 6d
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Reggie @TheBookHippie @CoverToCoverGirl @CarolynM for a hot minute, the MC was so unlikable I was wondering how we were gonna rope her back into likability. 6d
CarolynM You gotta have faith🤣 6d
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Naomi's Christmas | Marta Perry
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Amish Christmas romance. Naomi‘s Daad is marrying Betty Shutz. After spending all her courting years raising her siblings, taking care of her Daad, the garden and tending her bees, her Daad is asking her to move out. She rebels and takes a job at a bakery and taking care of the widower Nathan‘s 2 kids. Nathan who was married to Ada, Naomi‘s best friend. I loved Naomi and how strong she had to be to withstand the gossip. Happy she found love. Pick!

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Holy wowza! What a fantastic book. I have never read Slaughter before and that is all Patricia Cornwell‘s fault. To have read up to an 8th or 9th book in a series and have the pov change when it has always been 1st person and then to bring someone back from the dead 2 books ago, it was awful!!! I swore I‘d never get involved with a series again. But wow this was great. Slaughter had plot, character, and place moving forward in perfect harmony.👇🏼

Reggie @Ruthiella thanks for this challenge. I got a bingo, I‘m calling it a day, but this was fun. And it renewed my love of dark suspense/thriller. Thanks! 2w
5feet.of.fury Cornwell‘s POV changes in the Scarpetta books are out of control! 2w
Ruthiella Bingo! I‘m glad you had fun (the ultimate goal!😊) and discovered a new to you series. 🎄🔪🎅🏻💀 2w
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Bookzombie I stopped reading Scarpetta after book 9 because I got wind about her bringing a character back from the dead. 😳 2w
Bookzombie I have read all but the last book in Slaughter‘s Grant County series. Then I will move on to the Will Trent series. 2w
vivastory Slaughter is one of my favorites!! Whenever I talk to someone about books & I mention horror & they'll be like, “Oh, I can't read horror....“ & will then mention that one of their favorite authors is K Slaughter, I'm like, “I'm sorry, what?! Lolol“ 2w
vivastory @Bookzombie Do you plan on reading the last Grant County soon? 2w
Bookzombie @vivastory Not before 2026. 😁 I could read it soon though. I don‘t have a plan. The only reason I haven‘t read it is I find one of the main characters stressful at times and also I know something that happens, but I definitely want to read it still. 2w
Reggie @5feet.of.fury @Bookzombie every time I see a new book of hers, I scoff. Im just not over it even after all these years. But I brought her up because this book reminds me of how I felt when I read Cornwell‘s earlier books. 1w
Reggie @vivastory I think there are Littens on here who are like that. “I would never read horror,” and the next day be super excited for the next Slaughter. lol I definitely wanna read more of her. She wrote so dark and lush with detail. 1w
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This was romcom mixed with mystery. Mystery writers Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt get invited to Eleanor Ashley‘s English estate for Christmas. Eleanor Ashley is 81 and the most famous mystery writer of all time with 99 books. The very night they arrive, Eleanor disappears. There is a blizzard, the bridge is out and there is a mansion full of suspects. This was ok. It was cutesy. Aside from a few moments it didn‘t grab me. A low pick.

Ruthiella It does sound cute, though ! 🎄🔪🎅🏻💀 2w
Bookzombie I listened to this one last year and really liked it. Maybe it just hit right for me. Lol. I‘m currently trying to finish the tagged one for work book club tomorrow and I think I‘m done with holiday reading. lol. Maybe. 2w
Reggie @Ruthiella it was cute but it is not what I needed at the moment. In total contrast I picked up a Karin Slaughter and my insides are lighting up. The dark side summons me. ☠️ 2w
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Reggie @Bookzombie Im glad you liked this one. I love that you have a work bookclub! We can always squeeze in one more Xmas book. I‘m really not feeling the season at all this year. I think I need to bake some cookies. 2w
Bookzombie @Reggie The jury is out if we will have book club next year. Since it‘s virtual, we have been allowed company time, but we have seen some of that kind of thing go away. I finished the book by staying up too late, lol. Yes, I think I might get one more in. As adults, without kids, it‘s hard to feel the season sometimes. Do you shop at B&N or have a local bookshop you prefer? 2w
Reggie @Bookzombie I have been super proud of myself because I actually think the last time I bought any books was on my vacation in July. I‘ve used the library soooo much this year.But it would be Barnes and Nobles. I missed the day to cancel when they renewed my subscription. lol 2w
Bookzombie @Reggie Hi! I have a little something for you, but it‘s basically going to be a new year‘s gift at this point. 🦥 I hope you have a lovely Christmas and get to relax with a good book or do whatever makes you happy. 💗 1w
Reggie Did you get a package from me, yet? Cause there is one on its way. I hope you and Papa Bear have a great Xmas. I‘m just gonna be reading and eating. 2 of my favorite things. Merry Xmas, Margie.🖤🖤🖤 1w
Bookzombie @Reggie No, not yet, but I do think our mail has been wonky. My mom sent a card and it took a week and half to get here from Texas. You are so sweet. It‘s always a quiet day for us. We have also been eating and I have read some. 🎄💗☃️ 7d
Bookzombie @Reggie I received your package on Friday. Thank you so much! I will express more in my card, lol, and will let you know when I send yours. Sorry for delay. 5d
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Leilani Santiago is home in Hawaii, back from 5yrs in Seattle to help out with her mother who was just diagnosed with MS and run the shave ice shack her family owns. This starts out so understated with her discovering the dead body of a surfer inside the shave ice shack. Before you know it, there‘s ancestral land fights, Nazi hunters, Seattle bfs who show up at the worst time. The Santiago family is complicated and Leilani is great to read. Pick!

Ruthiella Making progress! 🎅🏻💀🎄🔪 Is this a series or a stand alone? (edited) 3w
Reggie @Ruthiella I think it‘s a start of a series. Because someone of the red herrings seemed like they could lead to sequels. 3w
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Hayley, who writes a food and drink column for her local paper in Bar Harbor, Maine, gets so excited when superstar, country music hunk Wade comes to town. But then one of Wade‘s roadies ends up dead. I‘m not a mystery reader, but this was a little ridiculous and a lot of fun. Lee Hollis is actually a brother sister writing duo so I had a lot of fun guessing who wrote what. Like when a guy did a roundhouse backhand. Or 2 women fought until👇🏼

Reggie they rolled on the ground until they ended up in the harbor. I almost od‘ed on the amount of-It was them! No it was them! No it was them! No it was them! lol but like I said, it was a lot of fun. A fried chicken pick! 3w
Ruthiella Sounds like the coziest of cozy mysteries! 🎄🔪🎅🏻💀 3w
Reggie @Ruthiella it was! Also, she included some comfort food and drink recipes. 3w
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lol, 2 books I finished a romance about country music that took place in Arcadia. My last book mentions Arcadia, and now country music is in this one.

LeahBergen The title of his number one hit. 😆 4w
Reggie @LeahBergen lol, yeah, I was laughing around my bite of burger when I read it. 4w
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@Michael_Gee I went to the library tonight and totally thought of you when I saw this. That hand is made of meat and those hands on the ouija board are made of cheese. So cute!! The rest of the book is pretty inventive. Thought you might want to look it up. Also, I‘m glad Sigourney Beaver did not make the Titan‘s finals.

AmyG OMG. I love it. 4w
Reggie @AmyG pretty cool, right?! 4w
Bookzombie That is very cool! 4w
Michael_Gee Uh, I think I am going to buy this book! I am so honored you thought of me 😆 So, I love Sig and think that she really nails that old diva persona. When she talks crazy like she did in the cauldron I am willing to think she is just wrapped up in that persona and it doesn‘t reflect herself out of drag. But she really wasn‘t rising to the challenge. Also, a performance challenge against JAHARIA and CYNTHIA? 4w
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The Speed Queen | Stewart O'Nan
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This is my 3rd O‘nan in2 months and I love him. Here, we hear Marjorie Standiford tell her story as she sits waiting for her death row execution. Her story is peppered with Stephen King references because the person she‘s telling the story to is the author who bought the rights. Who is it? Mr.King himself. Her life goes from small, normal Midwest town to a boyfriend with a hot car to drug spirals into murder. It‘s great. I‘m an O‘nan fan. Pick!

BarbaraBB Great review. I had planned to read his backlist too and then somehow got sidetracked. I will dive into it! 4w
Reggie @BarbaraBB he has tons of books out there. I think he‘s been slept on. 4w
squirrelbrain Great review! I have his latest as an ARC. I didn‘t get to it before it was published but need to make the effort now, and to read more of his backlist. 4w
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BarbaraBB He has written so much! I loved 4w
BarbaraBB And also this one, which I think you will too (edited) 4w
Reggie @squirrelbrain I‘ve read 4 of his and they were all winners to me. Also, I really felt like I was listening to this woman tell her story. Not a man writing a woman. It was good. 4w
Reggie @BarbaraBB I‘ve read Lobster. It was my first of his. Night Country I‘m buying for myself for Xmas. It‘s in a bunch of best horror lists and all the libraries I belong to have like all his other books EXCEPT that one. lol you know how it goes. 4w
BarbaraBB Well thanks. I just went online and bought Evensong and The Odds… 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4w
BarbaraBB I know how it goes. It‘s worth buying though, very good! 4w
squirrelbrain LOL @BarbaraBB 🤦‍♀️ 4w
BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain As if I didnt buy enough lately 🤷🏻‍♀️. They were cheap though *looking for an excuse* 4w
squirrelbrain Who needs an excuse?! @BarbaraBB 😝 4w
email list “Hello! I work with authors to help them promote their books and build engaged email lists. I‘d love to share tips that really grow readers! if you have intrest inbox me with my mail akintayotaye4@gmail.com 4w
vivastory You probably know this already, but O'Nan & King are friends IRL 4w
AmyG King and O‘Nan are friends…. What @Vivastory said. They would (or still do) go to Red Sox games together. 4w
Reggie @vivastory @AmyG in the afterword he talks about how Stephen liked the book but didn‘t like the first title which was Dear Mr. Stephen King. King thought that was using him a little too much. lol. But yeah, they even wrote a book together about baseball. 4w
Suet624 I‘ve read a few of his books and I‘ve liked them a lot. I forgot that I wanted to read more of them. Thanks for posting about this one. 2w
Reggie @Suet624 his books were definitely some of the better ones I read this year. And they‘re so different from each other. 1w
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August Lane | Regina Black
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The House that Built Me by Miranda Lambert. Because I finished a romance set against country music I just thought I‘d share a couple of songs.

willaful We used to have a visitor who was the child of the first owners of our house. He'd come by and tell us stories, and when we were replacing something we'd check if he wanted the original. (He did.) Haven't seen him in a long time. :-( 1mo
Reggie That‘s a wonderful story. I hope he‘s ok. @willaful (edited) 1mo
Centique Oh wow Im going to play this so I can hear it! Beautiful lyrics. 1mo
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Reggie @Centique I‘m a marshmallow. I cry to this song, lol. Hope you like it. 1mo
Centique @Reggie its beautiful! I am currently surrounded by family and noise but I am going to give it proper attention soon! 1mo
Doll8455 I had not seen my home in 70 years. A little lady let me in to see it a few years ago. It made me glad and very sad. 1mo
Reggie @Doll8455 awwwww. everytime I go visit my grandma I through the town I grew up in and I always take a ride down our short street with the grocery at one end and the headstart at the other. Our little house where our family of 4 grew up is a different color and the apricot tree isn‘t there anymore but it‘s still part of me. 1mo
Centique @Reggie I might be turning into a Miranda Lambert fan. Thats such a moving song! Definitely brought tears to my eyes 😢 1mo
vivastory My top genre for my Spotify wrapped is: Freak Folk lolol 4w
Reggie @vivastory what is Freaky Folk? 4w
vivastory Musicians like Waxahtachee, Gillian Welch, Vashti Bunyan, Vic Chesnutt. Sort of a hybrid of non-traditional folk & atypical country music. 4w
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August Lane | Regina Black
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Don‘t ask me why, but this is one of my favorite duets. I get mad cause my friend who sings Reba‘s part in the car, (I‘m Linda Davis, lol) won‘t sing this with me because she‘s chicken shit. So I‘ll sing both parts at karaoke.

Enchanted_Bibliophile It's a depressingly beautiful song 1mo
TieDyeDude Reba is a queen! I got confused for a moment, thinking this was re-recorded with Brooks and Dunn, but that was “If You See Him/If You See Her“ 😅 1mo
Reggie @Enchanted_Bibliophile totally agree. Just a sidenote, I wish there was a better video for this song. 1mo
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Reggie @TieDyeDude awww, I love that song, too. She really has so many hits. She‘s great. It‘s funny because the young people I work with now know her from her sitcom and I‘m always happy to tell them about her music. 1mo
Bookzombie This is one of my favorite duets too! I enjoy singing along to Reba. Not a duet, but another of my favorites is “Fancy.” (edited) 4w
Bookzombie @TieDyeDude I also enjoy “If You See Him/If You See Her.” 4w
Reggie @Bookzombie here‘s your one chance, Fancy, don‘t let me down!!!!! Love it. And the night that the lights went out in Georgia. 4w
Bookzombie @Reggie That one too! 4w
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August Lane | Regina Black
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I was in band in school. For me it was about notes and chords that pulled something from you. Not lyrics. But then I started going to karaoke with a a friend where I was confronted with these lyrics on the screen. These country people are really great storytellers. To be honest on a Friday night I just want good vibes, like give me a bootscootn boogie or whose bed have your boots been under but then sometimes it‘s a sad song night. And then I 👇🏼

Reggie feel like I‘m in someone‘s therapy. I always have Rihanna‘s Please don‘t stop the music to try and get the mood back. But then someone will come right behind me with more sad country. 1mo
TieDyeDude I had one classmate growing up who also listened to country music, so I rarely talked about it with anyone, but late-80s/early90s country was 70% of what I listened to. It is crazy what I used to sing along with, knowing every word but not really understanding what it meant 😅 1mo
Reggie @TieDyeDude Karaoke has totally enabled the reader in me to come out. Had I heard this song, I probably wouldn‘t have ever listened to the lyrics. But at karaoke, my mouth is open and I just want to ask these people, who hurt you?!!!! 1mo
Centique I agree with you - these lyrics are heart breaking! The lyrics to “I cant make you love me” by Bonnie Raitt is another one that gets me. And not so much the lyrics but the voice - Crazy by Patsy Cline. 😢 1mo
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August Lane | Regina Black
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This is a book packed with way more than romance. It has a happy ending but to me it was about 2 people and the difficult childhoods they grew up in. How that led them into difficult adulthoods. It‘s set against the country music industry and takes place in a small town with a lot of flavor. Black nails small town people. Their love, their drama. I loved Black‘s writing and how a lot of conversations in here could be country songs. A twangy pick!

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I guess Dolores Claiborne did something to me because this is my 1st book in a week and 1/2. This is easy peasy, a 7th book in a series where I didn‘t really feel I had to read any of the other books. Lana Lee is taking a class on Chinese cooking in secret because she runs a Chinese restaurant and the embarrassment is high. After leaving and going back for a grocery list she forgot, Lana finds her teacher dead. This was just an easy nice read.

Ruthiella Nice! I find reading crime fiction is a slump buster for me. 🎄🔪🎅🏻💀 1mo
Rissreadswithcats Great title! 23h
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Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King
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This is in my top ten this year. The whole book is told by Dolores Claiborne who is telling her story to the cops because she is under suspicion of killing her longtime boss, Vera Donovan, who was found dead after falling down the stairs. Her story doesn‘t start there. It‘s starts 30 years ago when she killed her husband, Joe. It‘s a book about a mother‘s love. What you do when one person is poisoning everyone. The lengths we go through. Pick!

Mirazzles I loved this one! One of my absolute favourites of King‘s! 2mo
AmyG Yes, a favorite. 2mo
KT1432 Omg STACKED!! Hadn‘t ever heard of this one! 2mo
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MidnightBookGirl I love this book, King absolutely nails the voice. 2mo
Reggie @MidnightBookGirl totally agree. Never once did I think about the man who wrote her. I believed I was listening to this woman from an island off of Maine talking about her hardscrabble life. @Mirazzles @AmyG @KT1432 2mo
vivastory This is not related to DC, which I have yet to read but I recall loving the adaptation; but I just finished Offspring, the sequel to Off Season by Ketchum. Have you read it? Apparently this is a trilogy. I read book 1 a few months ago and I actually slightly like the sequel a bit more. Curious about your thoughts, if you've read it! 1mo
TrishB This is a great read. One day I will re-read everything. 1mo
Reggie @TrishB I‘m at the age where I‘m questioning if I‘ve even read some of the books or am I just remembering the movie, like The Dead Zone. 1mo
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Thanks for this! I am buying this book right now 4w
Reggie @DrSabrinaMoldenReads Yay! I hope you like it! 4w
Bookzombie This is one I‘m looking forward to. Sometimes I question sticking to reading by publishing date. I can‘t decide if it makes me resist picking up an SK because it‘s not random if that makes sense. Lol. 4w
Bookzombie @vivastory I read Off Season in 2011. 😳 I didn‘t realize there was a third book. I might have to start over. 4w
Reggie @Bookzombie I know exactly what you mean. It feels like there‘s a strait jacket on you and you just want any to bust out. I tried doing like 5 reading challenges years ago and within a month that all went up in smoke. Read whatever you want, Margie. Dolores Claiborne is really good. She deserves to skip the line. 3w
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Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King
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Today I went to eat at our deli at work. While I was paying, the worker, who is this really nice, young man, 22 at the most, saw my book and says-Stephen King, I‘ve heard he‘s good. But he says Stephen like it‘s spelled Steffin. Steffin King. And I didn‘t have the heart to correct him. But I am gonna buy him a book of his short stories.

Dilara Ha. The reverse happened to me: I said “Steeven“ King, and the person corrected me because “actually, it's spelled with a 'PH', so it's 'Steffen'“ 😚 2mo
TEArificbooks It‘s confusing because of the name Stephanie has more of a “ff” pronunciation. English is hard even for English speakers 2mo
AnnCrystal That would be nice of you 📚☺️👍🏼👑💫. (edited) 2mo
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Centique Ha! 😁 2mo
Suet624 That‘s nice of you. 💕 2mo
Doll8455 Nice way to encourage reading! 2mo
Jas16 I got in an argument with a friend in 4th grade over this. Sadly, I was on the losing side. 2mo
dabbe 🧡🍁🤎 2mo
vivastory Lolol. “More Steve and less Stephanie“ 2mo
Reggie @Dilara @TEArificbooks @Jas16 I had this friend from Mexico who made me jealous because he said their spelling bees are easier because words are spelled the way they sound. And I thought back to the first time I came up against the words knowledge and comfortable. Curse you English!!! lol 2mo
Reggie @vivastory can we just raise a glass to Showgirls? I love that movie. 2mo
Reggie @AnnCrystal @Suet624 @Doll8455 thanks! It‘s gonna be Nightmares and Dreamscapes and I‘m just gonna tab my favorites for him. It was the book that really got me into short horror stories. 2mo
AnnCrystal @Reggie 🆒👏🏼😎👍🏼📚💫. 2mo
vivastory I meant to ask, which collection? I vote Night Shift 2mo
Reggie @vivastory Nightmares and Dreamscapes. It was my first introduction into short horror fiction. 2mo
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Carrie Soto Is Back | Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I read this for bookclub this Friday and I‘m so happy I did because I loved it so much. This reminded me of all the tennis my brother and I watched in the late 80s and 90s. Carrie Soto had a phenomenal career and retired with a bad knee. But a new phenom threatens to break one of her records and she decides to stage a comeback. She isn‘t always likeable but my goodness did I root for her and her awesome dad. This is an all the tennis balls pick!

sarahbarnes Good to know! I just read and loved Atmosphere but didn‘t like the other one I read by her. 2mo
Jas16 Great review. I loved how unlikeable she was. 2mo
vivastory When I read Daisy Jones I raved about it a bit & on retrospect, it didn't really deserve the praise (except the ending) but I've heard so many good things about both this one & Atmosphere. For years growing up one of my career aspirations was to be an astronaut... one of the best book events I ever attended was for Scott Kelly and his experience being in space for over a year. I was in awe 2mo
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Reggie @sarahbarnes @jas16 @vivastory I don‘t think the writing is all that, but the story is really solid and readable. I came back from break with tears in my eyes and my coworker asked me what was wrong. I said nothing, I‘m just so happy Carrie just made it to the semifinals of the tournament she‘s playing. And then we all laughed. They know I get emotional about books. lol 2mo
Amor4Libros I loved this one, too! 2mo
sarahbarnes That‘s how I‘d describe Atmosphere too - the writing isn‘t earth shattering but man what a great story. 2mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes so my bookclub, there were 11 people who showed up and only me and another person liked it. Out of 10 everyone else gave it a 2 or 3. I gave it an 8. I was shocked. The vultures!!!!! lol 2mo
Reggie Also, there is a guy who literally directed us to different pages pointing out the sentences that had problems. Lol 2mo
BkClubCare @Reggie - aw! 😢 🤗 I am considered the harsh critic in my book club, but usually no one agrees with me. 1mo
Reggie @BkClubCare lol, with us it always switches. There are people you think are gonna feel a certain way and they surprise you. 1mo
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@AmyG @Jas16 @Centique Jennifer, Amy, and Paula. Thank you ladies for the book mail. I had a really good day and checking the mail today was like the cherry on a hot fudge sundae, with nuts, and peanut butter, and whip cream, and chocolate ice cream. lol. Thank ya‘ll so much.

BarbaraBB Happy birthday Reggie. It is your birthday right?! 2mo
Ruthiella Score! Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 2mo
Reggie @BarbaraBB @Ruthiella no, it‘s not. I think 2 of the packages had been there for a while but I only check my mail right before all the bills are due on the 15th. Cause it‘s like a block away and I‘m too lazy to walk everyday. lol 2mo
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Ruthiella Happy UN-Birthday then! 😊 2mo
Reggie @Ruthiella lol thank you! 2mo
AmyG You are welcome, my friend! Enjoy. 😘 2mo
Suet624 Wow! You scored!! 2mo
Jas16 What a great mail day! Glad to contribute to it and hope you enjoy them all. 2mo
vivastory Well... now you should tell us, when is your birthday?; 2mo
KT1432 Ahhh I really need to read Mercury Pictures! 2mo
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The Odds | Stewart O'Nan
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Marion and Art go to Niagara Falls for their 30th anniversary. They have behind them 2 kids, 2 affairs, a looming bankruptcy and a possible divorce. They‘re at casino to bet it all. Maybe even on each other. O‘nan is this expert pathologist showing all the wounds on the heart of Marion and Art‘s marriage through inner dialogue and their intimate interactions. I had this constant tug on my heart wishing the best for them. A pick!

squirrelbrain Great review! His new one comes out tomorrow (in the UK) -I have the ARC but haven‘t got round to it yet. 2mo
Reggie @squirrelbrain thanks, I have a couple more of his checked out. I‘ll keep an eye out for that one. I really like his writing. 2mo
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Blood Cruise | Mats Strandberg
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I loved this. This author introduces you to all these miserable people aboard The Baltic Charisma. A booze cruise. There‘s vampires but you don‘t meet them until he‘s woven you into these peoples‘ unlucky lives, hoping the best for them. That way the author can break your heart as not all of them survive. This was just good solid horror on a boat with vampires. Pick!

AmyG My husband likes cruises. I will NOT be reading this. 😳 (edited) 2mo
Ruthiella Glad the vampires finally showed up! 😱🩸😂 2mo
Reggie @AmyG do ya‘ll ever think about living on them. I have a coworker who cruises like 4 times a year and he was telling me you could buy a cabin for 100k and then pay the monthly hoa fee or something like that. And then I heard on another boat you could pay 32k to cruise the whole year. 2mo
Reggie @Ruthiella that‘s the thing, sometimes you wish for something to happen and then it does. 💔 I really felt bad for some of these characters. It was good. 2mo
AmyG Living on a boat would be my nightmare. 😬🤣 2mo
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Blood Cruise | Mats Strandberg
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Sooooooo it‘s page 83 and I‘m waiting for the vampires to show up. And I hope it‘s soon because I need a reprieve from all the miserableness of the people on this boat. Not a happy story amongst them. Dad‘s a drunk, grandma committed suicide, mom is in a wheelchair and deserves better, I just lost my job, I came because after my husband died the rest of my family forgot about me and to hear another sad tick tock from the clock in my kitchen 👇🏼

Reggie would be too lonely. There‘s even a gay couple engagement about to happen but one of the guys is eternally sad about leaving his friends behind when he left his job on the ship years ago. Survivors guilt. Oh vampires, where art thou? Can‘t wait. (I really am enjoying this, lol) (edited) 2mo
Bookzombie lol. 2mo
IndianBookworm Wow! That's intriguing😂 2mo
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Fiend | Alma Katsu
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We follow the 3 offspring of the uber wealthy Berisha family. A family whose enemies somehow always end up dying. When they go to church, people look away talking of a curse. This was good and I liked it. However, having read Katsu‘s The Hunger and Wehr Wolf, I felt like this was Diet Katsu. There‘s a density missing from this book. Like I wanted chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes slathered in white gravy but she gave me grilled chicken 👇🏼

Reggie and veggies. Still, I read this within a day, pick. 2mo
Ruthiella Nice review! I like analogy, only now I am hungry. 😋😂 2mo
Reggie @Ruthiella thanks! I hope you ate good today. 2mo
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Motel Styx | Jonathan Butcher, Michelle Von Eschen
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In a future America, necrophilia becomes legal. There are necrotels, hotels that provide necrophiliac experiences. We follow Ellis, a husband going undercover as a customer, to look for the body of his dead wife at Motel Styx. Nothing is as it seems. It was really good. There are some themes and lessons here. Is it as depraved and disgusting as you think it is? Yes. If you‘ve read Tender is the Flesh, you can do this. A, just cremate me, Pick!

sarahbarnes 😂😂😂 2mo
Suet624 I‘m on board with the cremation too 2mo
LeahBergen 😂😂 2mo
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Rissreadswithcats 🤣 I loved Tender is the flesh but I think I‘ll give this a miss! (edited) 2mo
Bookzombie Just cremate me! Same, friend, same. 2mo
Reggie @sarahbarnes @Suet624 @LeahBergen @Rissreadswithcats @Bookzombie it‘s so funny, I listen to this podcast, Currently Reading. It‘s hosted by these two really mild manner women and they had this show where they featured recommendations from listeners that were recorded. In the middle of all the romance, the Patchett, the Kingsolvers, the fantasy, this one lady out of nowhere comes on and talks about this book. Talk about shocked,so I took the chance 2mo
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I don‘t know how you take a story with an ever expanding basement, a door in said basement that appears out of nowhere, with a doppelgänger that comes through that doorway, set against a sinking city supposed to be taken care of by a dark multibillion dollar company with a mysterious lesbian as their enforcer and make it so damn boring. What a snooze fest. And I blame myself Litsy, I got in my reader car and got on the book road. Saw all the ??

Reggie red flags, the detours, the construction, the eventual dissolution of paved road into a rocky desert with the promise of an oasis that was just a mirage. I should have just stayed home. It‘s a pan. Wah wah. 2mo
Bookzombie That‘s a bummer. I enjoyed this one by her. 2mo
LeahBergen Your pan reviews are always my favourites. 😆 2mo
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Reggie @Bookzombie I don‘t know if I could ever bring myself to try her again. The ideas were there but man that pacing and execution. 2mo
Reggie @LeahBergen thanks! I‘m glad we at least get laughs out of it. 😁 2mo
Rissreadswithcats You always entertain Reggie! 👏🏻 2mo
Bookzombie @Reggie Maybe I was just swayed by the gothicness of it. Litsy reviews are more so-so. I also have this one to try, but I have lowered my expectations if I get to it. Lol. 2mo
Centique Cracked me up! 😂 2mo
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Uzumaki | Junji Ito
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This is gonna be on my best of the year list. I just kept smiling while reading this horror manga about a coastal town that is cursed by spirals. Yes, spirals. It just kept surprising me over and over again in its creepiness. Ito is a master at drawing these captivating panels. One of my favorite moments is when these two girls, their hair gets cursed by the spirals and they have this hair off. One of the girls, her hair almost chokes the 👇🏼

Reggie other girl to death. But out of nowhere her boyfriend comes with a pair of scissors and cuts the hair choking her. And I thought, wow, that‘s real romance. Lol. A super Halloween pick! 2mo
AmyG Well, that is an interesting premise. 2mo
Reggie @AmyG it was and just like a little kid I kept laughing the crazier it got. It‘s really good. 2mo
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Rissreadswithcats Fabulous illustrations! 2mo
Bookzombie I read this right before I drove to Indiana to set up our rental. I went into a McDonald‘s somewhere along the way and the wall paper on one wall looked like spirals. I think it was meant to be cinnamon rolls, but I had to pause for a moment. Lol 4w
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Uzumaki | Junji Ito
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I‘ve had this for a couple years. Super happy I‘m reading it for this week.

vivastory The 🌀 is everywhere 2mo
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I liked this very much. One of the most Cormac McCarthian books I‘ve read. Told in 2nd person we follow Constable Jacob, a veteran of the Civil War in Friendship, Wisconsin. If I didn‘t know this was published in 1999 I would have said this was his pandemic novel. Diphtheria sets upon Friendship and we see Jacob‘s struggle with his faith as more and more of the town falls ill. The writing was superb and the story just kept building. Super pick!

BarbaraBB Sounds very good! 2mo
Reggie @BarbaraBB it was and it‘s also of the season. Starts out sunny and airy and ends up dark and horrifying. 2mo
BarbaraBB I expected that much 😀 2mo
vivastory I do need to read more O'Nan. Last Night at the Lobster is such a gem 2mo
Reggie @vivastory I love Last Night at the Lobster so much. Out of all the horror I read this past month. This was my favorite. 2mo
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Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories | Robert Levy, Clay McLeod Chapman, Gabino Iglesias, Bev Vincent, Tim McGregor, Alan Baxter, Jeremy Hepler, Andrew Cull, Nick Kolakowski, Donna Lynch, Holly Rae Garcia, Angela Sylvaine, Ali Seay, Ally Wilkes, Joe Butler, Georgia Cook, Aristo Couvaras, Fred Fischer, Kurt Fawver, Josh Rountree
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This is an anthology where all the stories are based on found footage. I will say that I don‘t think the writing is strong in most of these but their narratives left an ick on me and for that reason it‘s a pick. My favorite one has to do with a young closeted lesbian who is surviving the best way she knows how-with murder. lol it‘s an awesome story. Others include an alien landing off the coast of Africa and an Outback boogeyman slaughter. Pick!

Bookzombie It gets points for the cover alone. I had a moment of why is Reggie holding a VHS tape. 😂 2mo
Reggie @Bookzombie lol I know. I thought about turning it to the side where the actual title is but said nahhh. 2mo
vivastory The second one is very good as well... there's a story about a lost Simpsons episode that I still think about to this day 2mo
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The Whistler | Nick Medina
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I liked this even though I wish it was smoother. We follow Henry Hotard in 2 timelines. One is him as part of a ghost hunting team on the up and up, with his girlfriend Jade, and best friend, Toad. The other is him a year later dealing with his new reality after a crash where he is confined to a wheelchair. Before the crash there was new ghost hunting case involving whistling, and now when he‘s alone he hears the same whistling months later. Pick.

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What Hunger | Catherine Dang
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So female rage with cannibalism is the new thing. We meet Ronny Nguyen, teenage daughter of Vietnamese parents. Her family is reeling from the sudden loss of her older brother, Tommy. She goes to a high school party where something horrific happens while something horrific is discovered. I enjoyed following Ronny and her frustrating coming of age. In a world dangerous to young women I rooted for her rage. Pick!

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Look alive, Litsy, it‘s finally happened. I got the senior discount without even asking for it. Lololol To celebrate the occasion, I just wanted to post some of my favorite horror books featuring older main characters. Does the aarp newsletter just start appearing too? Or do they actually wait until I‘m older?

kspenmoll Yay old man!!! Some perks of aging! (edited) 2mo
Leftcoastzen Always feels like a good thing/ a bad thing! 😂 2mo
Aims42 Ooooooo! This is cause for celebration 🥳 2mo
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Bklover Oh, I remember that day!😲 2mo
IriDas The aarp found me a year ago. It hasn‘t found you yet? I was just 55. We‘ll see if they can find me now that I‘ve moved. 😂 Congrats on the discount. Do they still do the free coffee at McDonald‘s? 2mo
Ruthiella Congratulations! 😂😂😂 2mo
AnnCrystal Discount 🆒 👏🏼🥳👍🏼💝. (edited) 2mo
LeahBergen 😂😂😂 I feel ya! 2mo
vivastory 😂 😂I love David Sodergren 2mo
Reggie @vivastory it‘s the only one of his I‘ve read and it was sooo good. It was on audio and the lady had the accent and everything. I need to read more of him. 2mo
Reggie @Leahbergen @Ruthiella @Bklover @Aims42 @Leftcoastzen @kspenmoll @IriDas @AnnCrystal I‘m 46, but I have this out of control mustache beard thing happening with these gray sideburns that have started to wrap around my glasses. It all comes off tomorrow. No more grizzly adamsing it. lol 2mo
vivastory Rotten Tommy is great. I also dug Satan's Burnouts Must Die (although it would fall in the extreme horror category) 2mo
LeahBergen Oh dear. You are far too young for the seniors discount 😂 2mo
Reggie @LeahBergen lol that‘s what I‘m saying!!! That girl said I look 10 years older. 2mo
LeahBergen I wasn‘t sure about your age! 😂😂 2mo
IriDas @Reggie 😂 They need to do better training at that establishment. When I worked food service I was always told to wait until the customer asked for the discount. Also, take care with your skin after the shave. I hate to think how sensitive it will be if your beard has been around for a while. Are you going to shave it yourself? 2mo
Reggie @IriDas I use clippers but when it comes to my face when I shave I use this thing called Shave Butter. It‘s the best thing I‘ve ever used. I never feel sensitive afterwards anymore. 2mo
Bookzombie I know you don‘t look 55! 🙂David and I have both received AARP advertisements for years. He stopped doing the scruffy look because it comes in so gray. 2mo
Reggie @Bookzombie she literally made me regret not ever doing a skincare routine. Lolol 2mo
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I really liked this grief horror, tragic horror romance? London has been saved, having all of its zombies eradicated. We meet Kesta, a virologist who keeps her husband turned zombie, Tim, chained in her flat until she can figure out a vaccine. This was not the zombie story you expect but it was fascinating. It‘s very zombie CSI. The writing, character exploration of grief, what governments do, it sounds like a lot but it was done very well. Pick!

Bookzombie Great review! I have this one out from the library. Don‘t know when I will get to it, but it sounds good. 2mo
Reggie @Bookzombie it was different. In a good way. I hope you like it. 2mo
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This was a low pick for me. All stories take place in the universe of Stephen King‘s The Stand. There were more “meh, this is just ok” stories in here than I thought would be. There are so many stories with animals in here. Most were really successful. At the end of The Stand, Stu asks Franny if humans ever learn their lesson, and she just stays quiet. This leads me to my favorite section of these stories. The Wheel, where all the stories 👇🏼

Reggie take place years and even decades after Las Vegas was blown up. They were so dark, well written, and fantastic. It saved the collection for me. 2mo
TrishB Great review Reggie! Even if it puts me off a bit. 2mo
Reggie @TrishB I knowwwww I‘m sorry. I really wanted them all to be hits. 2mo
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AmyG Yes, thank you. With so much to read, I can just cross this one off. 2mo
Suet624 More darkness from Mr King? Yeah, no. 🥴 2mo
Reggie @AmyG I say still try it. Dip your toes in the water. You never know. 2mo
vivastory I will still read this one, but I don't think I will necessarily be in a hurry!! 2mo
Bookzombie Yes, this makes me a little less eager. I‘m sure I will still pick it up someday. 2mo
Reggie @Bookzombie @vivastory please just dip ya‘lls toes into the book. Go straight to the one by Hailey Piper and let me know what you think. It‘s the most WTF-est story in there. Had me laughing so hard. I couldn‘t stop telling people at work about that story. 2mo
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The person on the bot right is Albhora, a contestant on Dragula which is like Drag Race but for the goths. Dragula is judged by the two on the left, The Boulet brothers. In one challenge, one brother said Albhora was the best, amazing. The other brother said she was the worst. When it came to the results one of the brothers said-at the beginning of the season we said we have the final say on who wins and who goes and we stand by that and for 👇🏼

Reggie that reason congratulations, Albhora, you have won this challenge but you are also up for elimination. Lololol wild. And that‘s how I feel about a story in here. It‘s amazing but part of me thinks it‘s really bad. Idk. lol 2mo
AmyG Oooo, my daughter would love this show. (edited) 2mo
Michael_Gee I love Dragula! Are you watching Titans? Can‘t wait to see the third episode. 2mo
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Reggie @AmyG it is really amazing what some of these people do with what they have. What they create. But the rest of the show is drama. Just all of them fighting. lol 2mo
Reggie @Michael_Gee I am. I‘m actually pulling for Jaharia, Blackberri, JayKay, and Albhora. 2mo
Reggie @Michael_Gee I love Cynthia, she cracks me up. “I hate to see Disasterina walking up those steps. She‘s so old you know her knees have to be hurting.” Lolololpl like that whole scene. And Dolly‘s true to form-I‘m just wrapped up in myself I don‘t care who goes home, I‘m not even gonna look. The last 5 minutes-gold. 2mo
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Hide and Seeker | Daka Hermon
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Kids from a neighborhood play a game of Hide and Seek and break the rules therefore allowing this malevolent god of Hide and Seek to take them to this shadowy upside down version of their world where it tortures them with with their deepest fears. Some of these kids had fears that were so sad. It‘s reminiscent of those kids on bikes novels from the 90s and 80s with the power of friendship. It‘s middle grade and a pick!

TrishB I have that genre in my mind now….kids on bikes…. 2mo
Reggie @TrishB It, Stand by Me, A Boys Life, you have a favorite kids on bikes book? 2mo
CoverToCoverGirl That is one scary cover. 😲🙈 2mo
TrishB Definitely Stand by Me 😁 2mo
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The Stand | Stephen King
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The girl was thickkk at 1154 pages and I did it! It‘s so good. It‘s funny there were some illustrations in this book because they weren‘t needed even though they were cool. King paints a picture of all of his characters so perfectly. Even without the horror of a viral apocalypse I would have read books about Frannie, Stu, Larry, and Nick all on their own. King is so good at the psychology of his characters. Pick!

GatheringBooks I‘ve read this decades ago but looking forward to reading the graphic novel adaptation! I got a copy from a Big Bad Wolf warehouse sale. 😍 3mo
Ruthiella Congratulations! 👏👏👏 3mo
Tkimsal I loved this book! 3mo
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AmyG Huzzah! 🙌🏻 3mo
sarahbarnes Yay! 3mo
youneverarrived Would love to re read but it‘s soo long 😆 3mo
TieDyeDude Nice. I've never seen this cover! I read the original abridged version, but I'm definitely interested in the uncut edition for my inevitable re-read :) 3mo
Reggie @GatheringBooks I hope it‘s cool! It sounds cool. 3mo
Reggie @Ruthiella @Tkimsal @AmyG @sarahbarnes Thanks! Im not gonna lie, family visited this past weekend and deep deep inside the dark part of my reader heart I was pissed that I couldn‘t read The Stand while they were here. Ughhhh lol 3mo
Reggie @youneverarrived it just became a comfortable companion after the first couple hundred pages. Part of me wished it didn‘t have to end. But I have the new anthology of stories by different horror authors that are set in the universe of The Stand so it doesn‘t have to end yet. 3mo
Reggie @TieDyeDude yeah, I saw it and was in awe and knew I had to pick it up. Also cause the new anthology was out I wanted a refresher. And the extra 200 hundred pages freaked me out because I kept thinking- I don‘t remember this! lol 3mo
Ruthiella I know exactly how you feel about family visits cutting into your reading time! 😂 3mo
TrishB My fave King even now. I have the anthology ready too 👍🏻 3mo
Reggie @TrishB I‘m shocked. You‘re gonna read a book of short stories?!!!! lol, I‘m in the middle of the anthology. I‘m really liking some of these stories and some…..idk what to think of. 3mo
TrishB The Stand draws me in! 2mo
vivastory @TrishB I remember when it was on TV here. SUCH a major event, TS is not one of my fave Kings, although there are aspects I greatly respect. I have the anthology & plan on reading next year! 2mo
TrishB @vivastory I have to admit not watching the TV series! I‘ve hardly watched any King adaptations as a lot just aren‘t very good. If fans rate them, I may eventually watch them. 2mo
Reggie @TrishB if you look up The Stand movie 1994 on YouTube the series is on there. It‘s a 6 hr video and it‘s ssooo good. I also recommend Cujo, Thinner, Silver Bullet, Christine. 2mo
Bookzombie I love this cover. My copy was a tie-in for the 1994 movie that I still need to watch. It also had illustrations. It took me forever to read but it ranks high on my list. 2mo
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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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I liked this. It made me think of a stack of pancakes. We follow different timelines. There‘s a plague, exiled 1800s Englishmen, 2100s moon colonies, and some clever time play, and confusing names for a gender. I read a certain person as a woman for a whole chunk of the book until someone called them son. All this because there‘s a woman named Vincent in here. It just threw me off. Great book. Pick!

BarbaraBB Might be my favorite by her. 3mo
Lesliereadsalot Love all her books! 3mo
Tkimsal I loved this book. I immediately reread it when I finished it because I wanted to look more closely at how it all fit together. 3mo
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sarahbarnes I really liked this one too! 3mo
Reggie @BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot @Tkimsal @sarahbarnes for the most part bookclub liked it but we had these two people who were concerned about how she didn‘t map out the engine specifications on how people got to the moon colonies. Like they needed a hard sci-fi book. Know what I mean? Bookclub was still awesome. 3mo
Suet624 I like this one a lot too. There‘s something about the idea of being in a book club with you that delights me. I bet it would be wonderful. 3mo
Reggie @Suet624 we have a good time. You would love it. And we‘re all pretty chill. 3mo
vivastory This is one Mandel I haven't read yet but Really want to! I remember a couple of years ago right before I went to Thanksgiving dinner I read glass hotel and I made a whole spiel in front of my family why
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kspenmoll Love your “stack of pancakes” metaphor! Great review. 2mo
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It‘s hard to see but on the left you have The Stand by Stephen King and on the right, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John Mendel. The Stand uses what I call Bible type. It‘s so small. Today I took a break from it to read Sea of Tranquility for bookclub tomorrow and boy what difference. It was powderpuff. Like the 2 hours it takes to read 70ish pages of The Stand I almost finished The Sea of Tranquility, lol. Back to The Stand.

Ruthiella Oof! I feel ya! 3mo
BarbaraBB I prefer powderpuff! 3mo
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AmyG But The Stand is SO GOOD. 3mo
sarahbarnes Ha! I do love The Stand. I think my favorite book by him. 3mo
Reggie @Ruthiella @BarbaraBB @AnnCrystal no joke, last week I read The Stand for a couple of hours before work and when I got there, we wear these itouches to tell us what machines to go, I couldn‘t see the numbers. Like my eyes were rebelling of their overuse. lol 3mo
Reggie @AmyG @sarahbarnes there are a few complaints I have but ask me if I didn‘t cry today when I was reading the part where they finally all get together for that first community meeting in Boulder. Like they can‘t believe that not only are they gonna survive but they‘ll get to live, and they‘re together. 😭lol 3mo
BarbaraBB That‘s scary 😱 3mo
AmyG @Reggie So many great parts in The Stand…all tearworthy. You know my last name is Goldsmith. I lobbies very hard to name my daughter Frannie. But no go. 🤣 (edited) 3mo
Reggie @AmyG lol awwww who did your “Franny” turn out to be. Also, I just read where Harold shoots himself after he broke his leg falling off the highway. We feel bad for him right? A little? Even though he killed Nick and Sue? 3mo
AmyG My Frannie became Samantha. 3mo
Suet624 Recently I realized when I opened up a book of very small type that I just didn‘t have it in me to read it. 3mo
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The Ruins | Scott Smith
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While reading The Stand last night I put on The Ruins in the background to run. I forgot how decent it was. The book is exquisite. Talk about an exercise in characterization AND alien killer plants. Which reminds of this episode of The Drabblecast where the story is about an alien plant and its symbiotic relationship with an elephant. Try it. https://www.google.com/search?q=trunk+to+trunk+the+drabblecast&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8...

Bookzombie I love The Ruins! I have your Drabblecast stories open on my phone to read now. 3mo
Reggie @Bookzombie I hope you like them if you get to them. 3mo
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Omg The Stand is a thiiick book. But it reminds me of this short story I heard on the drabblecast podcast. The Stand has a virus and Jimmy‘s Roadside Diner by Ramsey Shedaheh takes place after an apocalypse due to a virus. It reminds me of The Road also. It has heart and gore and hope. Give it a shot. https://www.drabblecast.org/2012/07/12/drabblecast-249-jimmys-roadside-cafe/

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1. Our Share of Night by Marianna Enriquez. A sweeping multigenerational story of a medium who serves a cult in Argentina trying to ensure his son‘s safety. Adela!!!!!!!!!!!

2. Off Season by Jack Ketchum. Horrific cannibalistic fun.

3. The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene. Septuagenarians at the end of the world. Satanists, mutants, worms, and rain, sooooo much rain.

lil1inblue Our Share of Night was soooo good! 3mo
dabbe On a 1-5 scare-ometer (😱 to 😱😱😱😱😱), how would each one of these rank? Thanks for sharing. 🧡💜💛 3mo
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Reggie
The Stand | Stephen King
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I just read the little prologue where Charlie wakes up Sally so they could get off base after he saw all those government employees dead of the virus. I turned the page to this and I just smiled. So excited to reread this.

Bookzombie As long as it took me to read this one, I already look forward to rereading it in the future. 🙂 3mo
Suet624 Sooooo good. I should probably do a reread of this as well. 3mo
Doll8455 I sure want to read this - right down my alley. 3mo
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Doll8455 Meant to say read again. Read when I was 20. Again at 40. And now at 82 it will be just as good. 3mo
Oryx I just started a reread of this on audio 3mo
Reggie @Bookzombie I‘m 100 pages in and as usual am reminded of why I love King so much. These are real people. 3mo
Reggie @Suet624 why not, Sue? It‘s October. @Doll8455 I wanna say I‘ve read this before in my young 20s. I‘m in my 40s now, but I‘m not sure. I hope you pick it up. @Oryx my dad and I are reading this together for this month and he‘s doing the audio. 3mo
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I love Cosby‘s writing. It‘s cinematic and it moves. “Bug” Beauregard thought he had left his life of crime behind but his financial circumstances have made him a part of that “one last job” trope. The one that is messy, the one that just pulls you in further into the life you thought you escaped, the one that has a lot of collateral. Ooof, sooo good. Side note: I love that on one of Ryan Kennedy‘s recent romance books, he blurbs her! Love it.

kspenmoll Great review! 3mo
CoverToCoverGirl Soooooo good! I devour everything he writes. Brilliant. 3mo
Suet624 This is the only one of his I haven‘t read yet and it‘s sitting at the foot of my bed in a pile just waiting for me to grab it. 3mo
Reggie @Suet624 It‘s soooo good, Sue. 3mo
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Sometimes you go into horror thinking you‘re getting the Evil Dead 2013 experience and then sometimes you go see Malignant where these bubbles of laughter come out and you had no idea those were in there. This was hilarious to me. This takes place in 1980s Hollywood. We follow a horror director make his ultimate horror movie using a cursed camera. This harpoons the movie business and actors. So crazy. The end fizzled a bit for me. Still a pick!

Centique Im glad there were some laughs in there too! 3mo
Reggie @Centique there was a lot of laughs in here. Also, the cursed camera only kills people you care about. So the director had to take acting classes to be able to convince himself to care about people. It was just funny. 3mo
vivastory I also really liked this one 🖤 2mo
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Josephine, who as young girl lost her parents due to political violence, will meet up with her older brother and his girlfriend at a huge house on an island in the middle of nowhere. The house where their childhood friend Hiraya lives. The one whose family was rumored to be witches, aswang, cursed. There they will play a game that to the winner, they‘ll get a wish. A wish that could fix everything. This is set against the people‘s revolution👇🏼

Reggie in the Phillipines, 1986. This was good. Solid. The writer, she was very economical with her words. A to B to C. Pick! 3mo
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I loved this a lot. Becky Spratford has collected 18 essays from some of today‘s best horror authors on why they love horror. My favorites came from Brian Keene, David Demchuck, Paul Tremblay, and Grady Hendrix. Really wtf, Grady? His was soooooo good. He starts his essay talking about the time he found the severed arm of a small child in his father‘s refrigerator. It is wild. And sad. Most of these are how made up horror allows them to👇🏼

Reggie deal with the real horrors of the world around them. Super pick! 3mo
Bookzombie Great review! I hadn‘t heard about this one. 3mo
Suet624 Wait. Did that happen to Grady in real life? 3mo
Reggie @Suet624 idk? 🤷🏽‍♂️ I was wondering myself. 3mo
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