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Nov 22, 2024 06:21PM
I'm traveling in December; will be tough for me to run a poll and manage the group read. If one of the other mods is interested in taking over the holiday monthly read, please speak up. Thanks!
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Hope everyone enjoyed our month off, and is ready for the holidays.So what shall we choose for our first monthly book of 2025? A few ideas from the Stoker Awards shortlist:
Christi Nogle, The Best of our Past, the Worst of Our Future
Todd Keisling, Cold, Black, and Infinite
Sarah Read, Root Rot and other Grim Tales
Other nominations?
January 2025 poll is up:https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...
Please vote by Saturday 1/4. If you vote for a book and it wins, you are committing to participate in the discussions, by posting at least one message to the forum thread.
Nominations for February's monthly read? I'm still interested in the collections by Christi Nogle and Sarah Read, happy to renominate them. Other ideas?
I'd like to add White Trash and Recycled Nightmares back into the mix. I own that one and still haven't read it.
Nominations for our March monthly book? I'm still interested in the losers from the February poll, and can certainly carry them over. Other ideas?
We haven't had monthly reads in a couple months. Let's restart for June with some nominations!Here are a couple ideas that I'm pretty excited to explore:
Julia Elliot, Hellions: Stories
I really enjoyed Elliot's first collection. Also:
Lynda Rucker, The Moon Will Look Strange
Other nominations?
I'm curious about Elliot and Ruckers as I haven't read anything by them.At this moment, I've just started the short-stories from Good and Evil and Other Stories I've finished just the first one and I'm doing my best not to read the rest because I want to savour it. It's been a while since a book hooked me like this! S. Schweblin is my favourite Argentinian author atm. Another must-read if you haven't done it is Tender Is the Flesh which is also on my TBR.
Then, I've seen The Vegetarian tagged as horror or weird fiction so I would also like to try this one.
Ruri wrote: "At this moment, I've just started the short-stories from Good and Evil and Other Stories I've finished just..."Thanks for the heads up! I didn't know there's a new Schweblin. Goodreads used to send notifications on authors we follow, but we all know what happened to this decrepit site.
We've read more than one Schweblin book in the past. Ruri, should I put the new collection in the poll for June?
Bill wrote: "Ruri wrote: "At this moment, I've just started the short-stories from Good and Evil and Other Stories I've finished just..."Thanks for the heads up! I didn't know there's a new S..."
Maybe it's because it has been recently published and there aren't many editions? Yes, I was thinking about Kentukis which is another still pending for me, but then I saw the bc's bookshelves and saw that you read it during the pandemic! Anyways, I'd love to have Good and Evil to share with everyone, but I also like discovering new authors so the ones you proposed are good for me too!
Ruri wrote: "I'm curious about Elliot and Ruckers as I haven't read anything by them.At this moment, I've just started the short-stories from Good and Evil and Other Stories I've finished just..."
I've read Tender is the Flesh, but I'm going to be reading The Unworthy by the same author with a different group in July.
Vanessa wrote: "Ruri wrote: "I'm curious about Elliot and Ruckers as I haven't read anything by them.At this moment, I've just started the short-stories from Good and Evil and Other Stories I've ..."
I've read it a few weeks ago and I had the pleasure to meet the author! It's in my top 5 of this year, awesome read, but a bit difficult to digest as there are too many triggering scenes!
I’m interested in Hellions! I also would like to nominate Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova.
Last day to vote for June's monthly book! The contenders are pretty much neck-and-neck.Since there seems to be significant interest, in case of a tie, I'm happy to set up more than one monthly read.
Nominations for July's monthly read?An earlier idea:
Lynda Rucker, The Moon Will Look Strange
Another idea:
Kyusaku Yumeno, Kaimu: A Collection of Disturbing Dreams
I would renominate the latest Samanta Schweblin, but it's not out in the US yet.
Another idea:Kyusaku Yumeno, [book:Kaimu: A Collection of Disturbing Dreams|5943294..."
This looks great, will join if I can.
Whitney wrote: "Another idea:Kyusaku Yumeno, [book:Kaimu: A Collection of Disturbing Dreams|5943294..."
This looks great, will join if I can."
I'm very curious about this one too!
I have been trying to use my kindle unlimited subscription more, so I'm good with these nominations.
July poll is up! I added a third book (from the2024 Stoker nominees):https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...
I'm definitely reading Oddbody now that I know it exists, so I'm good.
TACITUS PERCUSSOR (A Quiet Killer) is my novel. I am very proud of it. A serial killer is loose in 1st century Jerusalem.TACITUS PERCUSSOR:
Justin wrote: "TACITUS PERCUSSOR (A Quiet Killer) is my novel. I am very proud of it. A serial killer is loose in 1st century Jerusalem.TACITUS PERCUSSOR:"For monthly reads, we generally do not accept nominations from authors. There's a separate forum for author self-promotion. (It's also difficult to consider a book when there's no description in the goodreads entry.)
Summer is sadly drawing to a close. Time to organize our September monthly read. A couple ideas, from the Shirley Jackson Awards:Scott Thomas, Midwestern Gothic
Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin (eds.), Why Didn't You Just Leave
Other nominations?
Midwest Gothic sounds good to me, but if you want more suggestions I recently purchased Black Brane and rekt which are both horror. They look both very difficult and weird though. And again, Midwestern Gothic really does sound good.
I've already read Rekt, it's a good choice. All the others sound good to me, as well.
Nominations for dark October? We can roll over candidates from this month's poll, of course.
I really liked Nadia Bulkin's first collection. Her 2nd just came out, which I'm obviously eager to read:Issues With Authority
A very new member, but am truly pleased to discover a group that loves the mergence of literary and darkness. I'd like to recommend my newly released novel, Cinder which is just above novella size, so should be a less intimidating read. However, it is quite dense. Topically, it converges literary fiction, horror, science fiction and romance into one interesting experience. Thanks for the include and I hope this recommendation is all right, and is in no way meant to be spammy.
For monthly reads, we generally do not accept nominations from authors of their own books. There's a separate forum for author self-promotion.
Can we roll over rekt? I'm already planning on reading it next month. Or would anyone be into doing a buddy read?
I'd be down since I already own it. Not sure what I'll vote for though, these noms all look good. Then again I said that last month...
Vanessa wrote: "Can we roll over rekt? I'm already planning on reading it next month. Or would anyone be into doing a buddy read?"No problem.
Yeah buddy reads are pretty easy to set up. Just coordinate with a buddy on book and dates, make a new forum thread, and it's ready to go! There should be a number of these in the archives.
I love Bulkin, and already have Issues With Authority, so I would be in for that one.
Poll is up. Please vote by Sat 10/4:https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...
If you vote for a book and it wins, you're committing to participate in the discussions, by posting at least one message to the forum thread.
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