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Books, Movies, TV & Updates • December 2, 2022

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   The week is nearly over finally! Hope you all survived it. Recent Reads & Listens  Hello, everyone! I hope you've been reading some good stuff. I'm working on finishing these this week. Link Ups In an effort to actually be social again in the book blogging world, I'm going to be linking this post up to  Caffeinated Reviewer's Sunday Post ,  The Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz  and  It's Monday! What Are You Reading at Book Date .  Link yourself up and make some new blogging friends! Additions to the TBR This surprise ARC showed up in my mailbox from MCD Books. I love surprises and this looks like a good one! Recent Watches   We've been watching Guillermo Del Toro's CABINET OF CURIOSITIES and it was a mixed bag of stories but I have to say that they were leagues better than the last season of Creepshow so you'll hear no complaints from me. My one-sentence reviews are over at Letterboxd. ‎‘Lot 36’ review by Bark • Letterboxd   ...

Books, Movies, TV & Updates • November 10, 2022

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  Recent Reads & Listens  Hello, everyone! I hope you've been reading some good stuff. I'm working on these this week. Soul Eater is a delightful monster-romance that I'm reading just for me on KU - I am determined to get some use out of KU, Leech is a received-for-review consideration book (and it's a little slow right now but I'm getting through it) and I'm listening to Just Like Home on audio for the Horror Spotlight chat . Link Ups In an effort to actually be social again in the book blogging world, I'm going to be linking this post up to  Caffeinated Reviewer's Sunday Post ,  The Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz  and  It's Monday! What Are You Reading at Book Date .  Link yourself up and make some new blogging friends! Additions to the TBR This surprise ARC showed up in my mailbox from TorNightfire and it sounds amazing! Recent Watches These were so much fun 😄    I have useless reviews up at letterbxd if you're dying to learn mor...

Books, Movies, TV & Updates • October 29, 2022

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Waving Skeleton Sticker from Waving Stickers Recent Reads & Listens  Hello! I'm reviving this little feature too. Here's what I've been reading this week. I'm nearly finished with both and they're very different from each other and both are very much recommended so far! I'm listening to The Honeys and the narration is excellent. Link Ups In an effort to actually be social again in the book blogging world, I'm going to be linking this post up to  Caffeinated Reviewer's Sunday Post , The Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz and It's Monday! What Are You Reading at Book Date .  Link yourself up and make some new blogging friends! Additions to the TBR I stopped buying books a while ago. Yes, it's true! I subscribed to Kindle Unlimited and simply have too many books in this house that I need to read and too many home projects that need doing to justify spending $ on new ones right now. But I was fortunate to receive a few ARC's in for review. Aren...

The Haunting of Henderson Close by Catherine Cavendish Review

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This one does atmosphere perfectly. The Haunting of Henderson Close by Catherine Cavendish Horror Fiction , 288 pages Released January 2019 Goodreads   |   Amazon   |  Flame Tree Press   Ghosts have always walked there. Now they’re not alone… In the depths of Edinburgh, an evil presence is released. Hannah and her colleagues are tour guides who lead their visitors along the spooky, derelict Henderson Close, thrilling them with tales of spectres and murder. For Hannah it is her dream job, but not for long. Who is the mysterious figure that disappears around a corner? What is happening in the old print shop? And who is the little girl with no face? The legends of Henderson Close are becoming all too real. The Auld De’il is out – and even the spirits are afraid. These Are My Thoughts, Please Share Yours! I received this book in for review from Flame Tree Press . This year I’m going to do my best to read as many new...

Spotlight On: Slashvivor! by Stephen Kozeniewski & Stevie Kopas

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Quick Little Spotlight Why? Because I enjoyed Kozeniewski's Braineater Jones   so very much and this one sounds like a heck of a lot of fun! Slashvivor!  by Stephen Kozeniewski & Stevie Kopas Try Not to Die TV-XXX (Salty language, Sexual innuendo, Vomit-inducing ultraviolence) TBA. Pirate transmission. North America's number one reality television show returns with instant fan favorite Dawn Churchill, a plucky, hometown girl from the irradiated ruins of the former United States. Will she survive the night in the electrified, booby-trapped arena or will one of the serial killers pitted against her come out on top? Returning slashers include evil animatronic Abraham Lincoln, eight-year-old “Daughter of the Devil” Abadonna, and all-time undefeated champion Denney the Killer Clown. (Plus surprise appearances by mad surgeon Doctor Feelbad, silver-tongued “Charming” Charlie Whitmore, and steel-clawed firebrand Razortooth.) A night of chi...

Got My Eye On August Edition

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I saw a post over at  Mailbox Monday  that was encouraging readers to share their best finds of the week via their  Books That Caught Our Eye  posts. I love, love, love that idea so this is my warped version of it. Here are the books I've added to the very top my wishlist with credit to my enablers :) Click on the book cover to head over to Goodreads and click the blue title bars to visit Barb & Char and add to your tbr pile! Barb @ Booker T's Farm Goodreads The Luster of Lost Things by Sophie Chen Keller In this story for readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Man Called Ove, when all seems lost, he finds what matters most. Walter Lavender Jr. is a master of finding. A wearer of high-tops. A maker of croissants. A son keeping vigil, twelve years counting. But he wouldn’t be able to tell you. Silenced by his motor speech disorder, Walter’s life gets lonely. Fortunately, he has The Lavenders—his mothe...

Can't Wait Wednesday: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King & Owen King

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Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme at  Wishful Endings  to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . To find out more about linking in visit the Can't-Wait Wednesday page at Wishful Endings  here . Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King & Owen King Scheduled Release: September 2017 Amazon  ♦  Goodreads In this spectacular father-son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place...

Can't Wait Wednesday: About A Dog by Jenn McKinlay

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Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme at  Wishful Endings  to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous  Jill at Breaking the Spine . To find out more about linking in visit the Can't-Wait Wednesday page at Wishful Endings  here . About A Dog by Jenn McKinlay Scheduled Release: May 30, 2017 Amazon  ♦  Goodreads Fall in love with a little help from man’s best friend in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s contemporary romance debut. Mackenzie “Mac” Harris fled her hometown of Bluff Point, Maine, after being left at the altar—and seeking solace in the arms of her best friend’s off-limits brother. Now, seven years later, she’s back to attend her best friend’s wedding—safe, or so she thinks, from the mistakes of her youth. But Gavin Tolliver has never forgotten the woman who has alw...

Can't Wait Wednesday: One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

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Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme at  Wishful Endings  to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous  Jill at Breaking the Spine . To find out more about linking in visit the Can't-Wait Wednesday page at Wishful Endings  here . One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus Scheduled Release: May 30, 2017 Amazon  ♦  Goodreads One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.     Bronwyn, the brain , is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.     Addy, the beauty , is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.     Nate, the crimin...

Can't Wait Wednesday: Rocked up by Karina Halle

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Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme at  Wishful Endings  to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous  Jill at Breaking the Spine . To find out more about linking in visit the Can't-Wait Wednesday page at Wishful Endings  here . Rocked Up by Karina Halle & Scott Mackenzie Releasing: May 17 2017 Amazon  ♦  Goodreads Rocked Up is a STANDALONE rockstar romantic comedy and the fun and sexy brainchild of New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle and her husband Scott Mackenzie. I have been watching him since I was a child. He didn't notice me back then and it didn't matter. Brad Snyder, guitarist and singer for one of the world's greatest bands, was my entire life. My father, the CEO of Ramsey Records, takes credit for all of Brad's success, trying to control him in the same w...

Can't Wait Wednesday: The Well by Marie Sexton

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Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme at  Wishful Endings  to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous  Jill at Breaking the Spine . To find out more about linking in visit the Can't-Wait Wednesday page at Wishful Endings  here . The Well by Marie Sexton Releasing: May 22, 2017 Amazon  ♦  Goodreads Twenty years after prom queen Cassie Kennedy is brutally murdered, six teenagers break into the house where she was killed to hold a séance. Haven knows his cousin Elise only wants to scare the crap out of him and his friends, but he’s willing to put up with one of her pranks if it means a chance to spend a few hours with the new kid in town, Pierce Hunter. But when morning comes, Elise has disappeared without a trace. Twelve years later, Pierce and his twin brother Jordan are professional parano...