What did you read during ~~ October 2024

[madrano]

Please don't go out of your way, Alias. If it happens, it happens. But i appreciate the thought.

[Alias Reader]

madrano wrote: "Please don't go out of your way, Alias. If it happens, it happens. But i appreciate the thought."

I found it ! I read it in 2015. I thought it was earlier.

It's 112 pages.

The Snowflake by Kenneth Libbrecht

I see from Amazon he has a few photo books on snowflakes. So you may want to go to Amazon and put the author's name in.

[madrano]

Oh, thank you, Alias. Can you imagine the patience it must take? When our kids were young, we "affixed" snowflakes to glass for a microscope. Tedious!

[Marie]

My October reads:

Hemlock by David Kempf - 4 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Jack Rose by J.A. Konrath - 5 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Shadow Within by Eric Butler - 4 stars. (Reread)
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Moonfall by Tamara Thorne - 5 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Tomb of Gods by Brian Moreland - 5 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Bedbugs by Lee Andrew Taylor - 4 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Psycho by Robert Bloch - 4 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Mischief Night Massacre: Ten Tales of Halloween by Jason Parent - 4 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

So that is my wrap for October. Enjoyed all the ones I read this month too. :)

[Bella (Kiki)]

Alias Reader wrote: "madrano wrote:

I vaguely recall someone mentioning the snowflake photos but my then library didn't have it. Of course that was before e-books. I'll have to see if i can find it."

This was years a..."

Are either of the below it:

https://www.amazon.com/Snowflakes-Pho...

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Snowflake-...

Snowflakes are beautiful, but I don't like to be in the snow and ice. Their symmetry and beauty are just astounding.

[Alias Reader]

Marie wrote: "My October reads:

Hemlock by David Kempf - 4 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Jack Rose by [author:J.A. Konrat..."

It looks like October sure was a winner for you, Marie !

[Bella (Kiki)]

Alias Reader wrote: "madrano wrote: #41
"I want to make clear that these photos were good, but not great. For the most part i was just tickled to see them. Like you, i find winter photography wonderful, so i didn't wan..."

I'm sorry, Alias. I didn't see your post when I posted. I think we may have posted the same books. Apologies. Snowflakes are gorgeous, and I cannot understand their symmetry when they are just frozen water crystals falling from the clouds. I can understand that, but that gorgeous symmetry! Just beautiful microscopically.

[Alias Reader]

Bella (Kiki) wrote:I'm sorry, Alias. I didn't see your post when I posted. I think we may have posted the same books. Apologies. Snowflakes are gorgeous, and I cannot understand their symmetry when they are just frozen water crystals falling from the clouds.

No, problem.

It is a beautiful book.

[Bella (Kiki)]

madrano wrote: "KeenReader wrote: "I read 6 books in October:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 4*
I gave it four stars, but the more I think about it, the more problems I have with it. In the book, a..."

I didn't like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, either, book or movie, but I think the nurse was just set up to be the antagonist, and worse than they allowed nurses to be at that time. I know back in Victorian times, they just locked people in asylums, and earlier burned them as witches. Now, they just make them take their medication, which thirty, forty, fifty years from now will be seen as bad as burning them as witches. That is, if the earth survives that long.

[madrano]

Marie wrote: "My October reads:.."

What a good group of selections for October. Reading the classic Psycho works every time! lol

Your squirming as you read Bedbugs makes sense. I felt the same, just reading your reviews. Those things are awful!

I identified when you mentioned claustrophobia when reviewing Tombs of Gods. We were in one of those pyramids and had to walk down one hallway fully bent over. Yikes! It was rewarding, of course, for no other reason than to have done it.

"Moonfall" for the name of a town is charming. Thanks for this & the other reviews, Marie.

[Marie]

Alias Reader wrote: "Marie wrote: "My October reads:

Hemlock by David Kempf - 4 stars.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Jack Rose by [auth...

It looks like October sure was a winner for you, Marie !....."

Thank you Alias. :) It was a fun October. :)

[Marie]

madrano wrote: "Marie wrote: "My October reads:.."

What a good group of selections for October. Reading the classic Psycho works every time! lol

Your squirming as you read Bedbugs makes sense. I felt the same, j..."

Thank you Deb. :)

I have been reading quite a bit from author Tamara Thorne lately and Moonfall was a delight to read. It captured the Halloween "mood" just right.

I loved the Tomb of Gods - that is interesting that you experienced that feeling within the pyramids. So you definitely can relate! :)

[madrano]

I noted that Thorne wrote a number of selections you shared this week. Terrific!