I’m still failing at posting more than once a week, as here it is, another “It’s Monday” post, and I haven’t posted anything since the last one.
I’ll be lucky to finish any more horror reading by the end of the Read in Peril (RIP XVI) challenge. This is due to what I call my Pumpkin Spice Problem.
Right after Labor Day, many people are eager to jump straight into fall while I’m still grasping greedily onto the last bit of summer. I’m not ready for pumpkin spice in September. When I AM ready – say, around mid- to late-October – I’m already behind and haven’t even had my first pumpkin spice martini yet. It’s the same with RIP reading. In September, I’m catching up on summer reading and not ready to turn to horror. So, now, here I am – barely started with the RIP Challenge, and it’s already time to wrap it up and move on to Nonfiction November, and beyond!
Currently Reading
A Line to Kill (Harper Collins, 2021) by Anthony Horowitz
The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. – From the Publisher
I’m reading A Line to Kill (Harper Collins, 2021) by Anthony Horowitz as an advanced reading copy, but the book has already come out this month, on the 18th. The narrator’s voice – Anthony Horowitz is the writer character/narrator in these books – comes through just as well in print as on audio. (I listened to the first two books in this series.)
In the books, Horowitz plays the role of the smart (but never smart enough, and often clueless) Dr. Watson to Hawthorne’s Sherlock Holmes. If you like British humor and meta-mysteries, you will love these. (In the books, Anthony Horowitz, the character, is writing true crime novels based on murders Hawthorne the detective character investigates, but is also the author of the Alex Rider young-adult books, which he is in real life.)
The Book of Accidents (Del Rey, 2021) by Chuck Wendig
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers – from the publisher
I’m about 3/4s of the way through The Book of Accidents (Del Rey, 2021) by Chuck Wendig. My ebook loan from the library expired, but I was able to borrow the book in print from my library. It reminds me of classic Stephen King horror. And at 529 pages, it’s almost as long as Stephen King’s more recent books have been.
Temporarily Not Reading
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner, Sept. 2021) by Anthony Doerr
I’ve ordered my own copy of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, so I’ve set aside the NetGalley advance copy I’ve been reading. Love this book!
Currently Listening To
Number9Dream (Recorded Books, 2013) by David Mitchell
The Libby app tells me I’m only 70% into Number9Dream by David Mitchell, read by William Rycroft, and the audiobook will expire in one day. I have several audiobook holds that all came in after I started Number9Dream on a David Mitchell kick. (I also borrowed the ebook of Ghostwritten from 1999 and never even got to open it, so I just let it go to the next one waiting.)
Apparently, Number9Dream has recently been re-released with a new narrator – Daniel York Loh – and a new cover. I didn’t know that, and I don’t know the reason.
Listen to an excerpt from the 2020 audiobook release on SoundCloud.
The narrator (William Rycroft) on the audio edition I’m listening to sounds good to me, but maybe his pronunciation of the many Japanese words and place names mentioned in the book is off, and I don’t know the difference.
Next up on audio will be one of these:
This post is linked to “It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?” hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. Check out the link-up party there for more reading suggestions!
Also linking this post up to Readers Imbibing Peril on Twitter.
I’m so with you about, as you so aptly put it, “grasping greedily onto the last bit of summer.”
I’m freezing in the house today, and it’s a cold rain outside, so the summer clothes are going to get put away this week!
I’m kinda with you. I love Nonfiction November, but I sure could use another October first to finish up my RIP reading. Overlap is going to occur.
Overlap is OK in my book! 😉
I thought you were going to say pumpkin spice latte! I’ve never had a pumpkin spice martini, but sure do want to try one!!
I’m a big fan of Nonfiction November, too, and spent most of September on summer reading. So RIP ends up suffering, but I did manage to read 3 books from my list. Maybe I’ll break my one post a week streak and do an RIP wrap-up later this week.
I’m in awe of bloggers who are already scheduling their Christmas reviews. I’m consistently about two weeks behind (if not more) and struggle to post more than once or twice a week.
I’ll have to look for The Book of Accidents. King’s books always seem to be checked out and I’m up to date on Hill’s books. Sounds like this will be a good way to fill the gap.
Enjoy your week!