I feel the need for some horror this month, and James Herbert’s The Rats comes to mind, as chosen by our very own Becky (moonduster). It seems particularly appropriate to me today.
Also, we’re going to read Phil Rickman’s The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story (Glastonbury Ghost Stories).
Ghosts and rats. Sounds fun to me. [...]
I needed some inspiration for our May read(s), and I turned to my good friend Robertplantfan. She’s picked some excellent books, and I am excited about reading these.
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Belinda by Anne Rampling or as she is more commonly known, Anne Rice
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Get reading, [...]
I truly don’t know how to describe this book. Words escape me, and it’s not easy making me speechless. If you’re squeamish, you won’t make it past the first page, when the rat pisses in his coffee. But if you can make it through that, it’s worth the trip.
Mike McGill is a private investigator, and [...]
Judas Coyne is an aging rock star. Wildly inappropriate, sexually promiscuous, he holds everyone at a distance – he doesn’t even call his live-in girlfriend by her real name. He calls her Georgia, the state she’s from, as he has done with each of the women who lived with him before.
Jude has a collection [...]
This book was written before J R R Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and has never been printed before. It’s called The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun and is a retelling of the Norse tales of Sigúrd the Völsung and the Fall of the Niflungs. It has been [...]
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by Joe Hill
for the March read. This title was chosen by MrsEvilGenius (our very own Blue ) and I’m excited.
(from the inside front cover) An aging death-metal rock god, Judas coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals, a used hangman’s noose, a snuff film. But nothing he possesses is [...]
And so does Stephanie Meyer.
I hated this book, can you tell?
And I’m not the only one. In an interview with USA Weekend, Stephen King said, in a comparison of J K Rowling and Stephanie Meyer, “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a [...]
It is with quite a few misgivings that the Bookclub is reading Twilight this month. I have my doubts, but I’ll give it a fair shot. And after we’ve all discussed it, I’ll come back here and review it.
Happy reading!
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