Thursday, October 28, 2021

Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews ★★★☆☆

Drawing of Kate Daniels looking smug with two swords at her back and a white lion
“You’re not as funny as you think.” 
- Nick to Kate 

No Kate you really are not.

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

The Long Walk by Stephen King ★★★★★

Image of the Stephen Kings the long walk tire contestants stumbling and falling across the finish line with the caption God's Gonna Strike You Dead
I walked all eleven hours of this audiobook and I highly recommend you do the same. 

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt ★★★★★

Kevin Spacey as Jim William in front of the palatial summer home with the caption My Living in Mercer House Pisses off All the Right People
All best sellers should be this good.

Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber ★★★☆☆

Image of a woman in hat with half her face in darkness the caption reads There are two sides to every woman.  One is rational, like a man, the other knows.
An ethnology professor specializing in primitive superstition stumbles upon his wife’s occult hobby. As Norman (for Normal?) loses his secular certainty his life unravels. 

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman ★★★☆☆

The Grim Reaper in the mist with skulls around
"I didn’t know how realistic a picture they had of their future. Their lack of a future, that is." 

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty ★★★★☆

Max von Sydow holding his head in one hand and a rosary in the other
“You don't blame us for being here, do you?  After all, we have no place to go.  No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism...” 

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell ★★★★★

A pen drawing of a traumatized person sitting a top a pile of books with the caption That moment when you finish a book, look around and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives... as though you didn't just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback
“I was naked before God and I was raped." 

I'm trying to remember a book that traumatized me this much and failing.

Unidentified by Michael McBride ★★★★★

A cornfield at night with the caption Go Ahead and Scream, there are a thousand ears listening

Damn but this was good. An effective combination of Fire in the Sky and Stephen King’s IT in under one hundred pages?!?!  


Michael McBride, You. Fucking. Genius.

A Traitor's War (Metaframe War #2) by Graeme Rodaughan ★★★★☆

Kate Beckinsale in her fierce vampireness of Underworld
“If you’re expecting a ‘gloat speech’ where I reveal the details of my plan to prove how superior I am... You’re talking with the wrong girl.” 

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ★★★★★

Two coyboys on hourseback with a sunset backdrop
This has defiantly become one of my favorite novels though it's hard to explain why. The meat of the story is about two retired Texas Rangers who decide to leave their south Texas ranch and drive cattle to Montana.