WINTER'S RESPITE READATHON 2024

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Titles Read:

1. AMONG THE LIVING. Tim Lebbon. Climate Change SF/Horror. Release Feb. 13.
2. HOUSE OF LAST RESORT, Christopher Golden. Sicily, Folk/Religious Horror. Release Jan. 30.
3. GHOST STATION, S. A. Barnes. SF/Horror Space
4. EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT, Benjamin Stevenson. "Golden Age"-style Thriller/Mystery, about Writers.
5. LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND, Seanan McGuire. (Wayward Children Series). Fantasy.
6. THE TUSKS OF EXTINCTION, Ray Nayler. Near-Future EcoSF.
7. EVERYONE WHO CAN FORGIVE ME IS DEAD, Jenny Hollander. Psychological Thriller/Unreliable Narrator
8. HUNTED HIGHWAYS: ROAD TRIP TERROR. HORROR/APPALACHIA/NOVELLAS
9. WIDOW FALLS, Kiersten Modglin. Suspense/Psychological Thriller. NA.
10. WHALEFALL, Daniel Krause. YA Speculative.
11. THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE, Speculative, Aanthology
12. A DRAGON'S CHAINS by Robert Vane [A REMEMBERED WAR, Book 1]. Dragon Epic Fantasy
13. LONG TIME GONE SNEAK PEEK, Charlie Donlea. psychological Thriller
14. AWAKE IN THE NIGHT. KU Virtual. Sapphic. Horror.
15. LONG TIME GONE. NG ARC Current. psychological Thriller
16.THE RESORT, Sara Ochs. Release Feb. 6. TWISTY Psychological Thriller.
17. SNOWFALL ON LIGHTHOUSE LANE. NG ARC Mount TBR. Libby Virtual.
18. HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS. (DREAMHOUSE KINGS #1). HOOPLA VIRTUAL
19. THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP, Christian Francis, collection. NG ARC Current.
20. MY DEAR HENRY. NG ARC Mount TBR. Pride. Historical fiction.
21. HAUNTED SECRETS: TALES OF ELOISE. SCARE STREET ARC
22. DRAGONS DON'T EAT MEAT. BOOK 1: THE VALKYRIE BESTIARY. Mount TBR. Urban Fantasy. 23. STORM DRAGONS VOL. 1. Graphic novel. Mount TBR. Epic Fantasy
24. THE WHITE GUY DIES FIRST. NG ARC Current.
25. IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS. Libby Virtual and NG ARC Mount TBR.
26. DARK TIDES: THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, APPALACHIAN HORROR.
27. THE FAMILIAR SNEAK PEEK
28. TAVERN OF TERROR VOL. 12 SCARE STREET ARC
29. READER BEWARE: A FEAR STREET APPRECIATION ANTHOLOGY
30. EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. LIBBY VIRTUAL. FANTASY
31. THE GHOST WHO WAS AFRAID OF EVERYTHING. EDELWEISS ARC.
32. GERNSBACK. online Virtual. SF
33. BURNING CHROME. MOUNT TBR. SF CYBERPUNK.
34. UH OH MY DRAGON'S HUNGRY. EDELWEISS ARC. Children.
35. NEUROMANCER. SF, Cyberpunk.
36. OSGOOD AS SHE GETS. Release February 29.
37. THE HAUNTING OF THE BLACKTHORNE HOUSE. KU Virtual
38. BONDING FIRE. NG ARC Current. Fantasy-Dragons
39. THE RESTLESS ONES. KU Virtual. Horror.
plus HER LOST SOUL by Helen Pfifer, to p. 39.

READ YOUR SHELVES Challenge

READ YOUR SHELVES

Going for:
52 - 150 📚
52 = 1 NetGalley ARC Mount TBR (received prior to 1/01/2024) PER WEEK of 2024
150 = Top goal on Goodreads Group Mount TBR 2024:
includes NetGalley, Edelweiss, Owned 📚, acquired prior to 1/012024.

1. THE GRIFFIN'S EGG by Cole Poindexter, Audio, narrated by Cole Poindexter. NG ARC Mount TBR. Fantasy. MG.
2. THE GRIFFIN'S EGG. Digital. NG ARC Mount. Fantasy. MG.

Review : PARALLEL LIES by John Calia

PARALLEL LIES is both exciting and enlightening: exciting because the plot is non-stop adventurous and suspenseful, constantly pitting various of the characters in situations ranging from weird to outright dangerous, and enlightening as it interweaves Quantum Physics, Multiverses, Near-Future Science Fiction in a Dystopian setting. So while you're intent on the story, your brain is also subtly expanding, and your imagination is pondering "What If?"

PARALLEL LIES [Release November 7, 2023] is a sequel to THE AWAKENING OF ARTEMIS [Release September 2021].

SCI FI MONTH! November 2023

SCI FI MONTH

Artwork copyright:
Yosua Bungaran Cahya Putra

Is it November yet?!!
In some Probability,
it surely must be.

So, collapse that Wave Function,
and

Bring November On!!!

Review: THE NIGHT HOUSE by Jo Nesbo

Release October 3. THE NIGHT HOUSE is an amazingly complex fantasy/Horror/Psychological Thriller. I read it in one sitting and still am not sure which aspect to think is "fact" (in the context of the story). Jo Nesbo is quite a prolific author and I've enjoyed several of his novels, yet I've never read one like this.

Part One is contemporary Fantasy/Fairy Tale/Horror, and terrifying it is! Part Two spins Part One on its head, riffs on the nature of Perception and Consciousness, then ramps up the Horror meter and delivers par excellence. Then Part Three strolls in to convince readers (and Unreliable Narrator) "all this was just a Dream!" [Was it?]

No matter what, THE NIGHT HOUSE is a novel I'm going to spend a lot of my nighttime wakeful hours pondering. Thanks for that, Mr. Nesbo!

Review: OUT THERE SCREAMING ed. By Jordan Peele

I can't praise highly enough this remarkable, exceptional, Anthology of Black Horror! Spine-chilling, terrifying, enlightening: the authors of these special stories may well all be geniuses of the Outre!! My special favorites (I possess the frozen spine and rapid-beating heart to prove so) are the two tales from Nnedi Okarafor (terrifying!), one from Tananarive Due (scared me senseless), one by Rebecca Roanhorse (which elicited my "OH, Yeah!" reaction), and a compelling and thought-provoking tale from Cadwell Turnbull. But all are exceptional, without question, a perfect complement to Spooky October reading.

Included is a frightening "wake-up" introduction from curator of this Anthology, Jordan Peele.

BLOOD OF THE MANTIS

Few authors can manage Anthropomorphizing and make it believable, efficient, and amenable as does Adrian Tchaikovsky. (If you differ, please go read his CHILDREN OF TIME Trilogy!) He demonstrates this as well in the SHADOWS OF THE APT Fantasy Series, of which BLOOD OF THE MANTIS is the magical third in the Series. I read it without having read the Series ' first two novels, and though there is a catch-up explanation in the beginning, for continuity's sake, I intend to read the Series in order. Expect exciting, adventurous, and twisted.