Current Reads/Recommendations

[Troy]

If y'all have any good recommendations for books in general or just wanna share what you're currently reading please do!

[Jamie]

My current reads are Certain Dark Things: A Novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I'm about 50% done, it took me a bit to get into the story but now that I'm halfway through I am really liking it. Think modern day vampires set in Mexico city.

[Jamie]

My other read is A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, I'm doing an exchange with a friend and annotating the book. She's thicc, so I got like 200 pages left. but very cute and fun paranormal romance. Heavy on the romance but lots of magic and suspense. It's been a fun read so far!

[Troy]

My current read is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and I just started but I can already tell it's gonna be an awesome but really challenging book. It's an ergodic novel which basically means it can be read/followed as decided by the reader. I'm very excited because the plot is based on a fictional documentary of a family that moves into a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside which in itself is terrifying. The book is laid out in a way that shows the reader a progression of horror/unsettling feelings regarding the home and the change of space which is so sick but also rough because some pages have to be read with a mirror because the words are written backwards smh. I will defs update on this book as I read it.

[Jamie]

I finished Dark Matter by Blake Crouch this week and WOW!! One of my top reads of the year so far! It was so good, I couldn't put it down and finished it in two days.
It's very science fiction, thriller with time travel. and fast paced, I thought I knew what was going to happen next but I did not!!
I'm going to read more this author, his writing style is easy to read and almost reads like you're watching a movie. 5/5

[Carly]

Recommendation:
House of Hollow-fun YA read that had hints of Splintered. It’s a standalone which makes me sad, but a whirlwind of a read.

Condemnation:
The Maid-this could have been a fun mystery read, but the character is (without it being named) obviously supposed to be autistic. It was a very stereotypical, one dimensional caricature that was pretty offensive. They are making a movie of it, and yes I will probably still watch it, but whew.

[Troy]

Tori wrote: "My current read is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and I just started but I can already tell it's gonna be an awesome but really challenging book. It's an ergodic novel which ba..."

Update: I have taken a break from reading this book because it's A LOT and hurts my brain but also it has awesome elements that should be noted. The use of physical space to manifest the horrors of the plot can be exhausting but also really grips the reader and parallels what the characters are facing. For example, some of the passages are backwards and in order to read them you have to use a mirror. A lot of the backwards passages are repeats of other sections which got really frustrating real fast but I think this could be a parallel to how the characters will run into never-ending hallways that contain empty rooms or doors that won't open and the frustration they must be feeling.

[Troy]

Last Days This book by Brian Evenson was amazing - I could not put it down. It is a short and thrilling read that takes on an objectivity through an amoral protagonist that was kind of refreshing because it allowed the story to simply play out without having bias from the protagonist. I really appreciated how the violence is portrayed in this book, as the descriptions of gore/pain were strong enough to make me feel like I was there but brief and objective enough to not be gratuitous. I would give this book a 4/5 stars with my only qualms being that it could have been a bit longer.