July was tough. My reading didn’t really suffer, but I didn’t have the mental space to think through reviews. This month is also unique because every book came from the library. I’m so glad to have access to this precious public resource. Relic Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child “Then he noticed that the rain forest,…
Tag: Horror
What I read: January 2026
Assassins Anonymous (Assassins Anonymous #1)Rob Hart “That’s why we’re here, dumbass. You can feel bad, and you should. Now you sit with those feelings and take the next right action. Meanwhile, I forgive you, because the person you were then isn’t the person you are today. Welcome to recovery.” Thanks to a secret group for…
What I read: September 2025
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most FoulEleanor HermanBook club “…people living in terror of poison were, in fact, poisoning themselves every day of their lives, through their medicine, cosmetics, and living conditions. At Europe’s dazzling royal courts, beneath a facade of bejeweled beauty, there festered illness, ignorance,…
What I read: June 2025
The Memoirs of Stockholm SvenNathaniel Ian Miller “To each side, ice accumulated in pinched slag heaps. The crevasses must have been terrible indeed, and I shuddered at the thought of peering into the void of one. A cold exhaled breath from some deep place where the world knew only freezing, crushing, grinding, and time measured…
What I read: October 2024
A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Gamache #2)Louise Penny “I think people who have had that experience and survived have a responsibility to help others. We can’t let someone drown where we were saved.” When the newest resident of Three Pines is electrocuted in broad daylight in front of the whole town, few mourn her loss…