Status Updates From The Library at Mount Char

I guess I’m emerging from the section that must have caused a lot of DNF’ing (if the beginning didn’t)…and regarding that issue, for me, it’s fiction. I can detach, after reading it. I don’t have trauma over anything that is not real. On the other hand, I don’t watch the news or immerse myself in real-life stories that are terrible…like the equivalent of any fiction I read. But, to each their own, pain is personal.

this is nuts

Wtf is this

Okay, I’m definitely Team ‘I Love It After 53 Pages’. Getting all kinds of splendid vibes - Patricia Geary, Lisa Tuttle, Lisa Goldstein, John Crowley, Arthur Machen, James Branch Cabell, Ramsey Campbell, Roger Zelazny, Gene Wolfe, Joe Hill - coagulating into a fresh new thing.

This and then Pretty Girls. Turned my reluctance over doing two books from 2015 in a row - I usually like to shake up the years I visit - into enthusiasm: “this will be cool! Let’s flash back ten years via two novels that hit big!”. Big expectations for this, and Pretty Girls, so we’ll see if they can both deliver. The two are from my 30-book, seasonal Creepy Reading List of Horror and Creepy Crime offerings.

I am so deeply confused in such a delectable way