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!
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