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Book Review: Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

A beautiful, tangled, magical fever dream of a tale, complete with magical lovers, good & evil & shades of grey, hope, longing, mystery and an ending that pays it’s respects to all that’s gone gone before. Characters may be exactly … Continue reading

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Book Review: Jamie McGuire, Red Hill

Zombies! Apocalypse! First person narrative! Any wonder I grabbed this off the bookshelf yesterday? The only real wonder is that it took me a half a day to finish it; Red Hill is a definite page-turner. As with my usual … Continue reading

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Book review: Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

Plopped this onto Goodreads, and then figured I should really put it here too. Dark Places isn’t a book that you can say “loved it!” about. It’s the kind of book that gets you creeped out, grossed out, and then … Continue reading

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Why I’ll never be a literary nerd. To the relief of all literary nerds.

Serves me right for reading a Twitter war early this morning. Apparently in the literary-blogoverse there’s a guy named Ed who needs to get bent, and a woman named Emily who lives to hurt people, except her heart grew three … Continue reading

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John Waters’ “Carsick” hits bookshelves tomorrow. Release party in Hampden!

Picture it: John Waters hitching across the country.  Sounds like a great story, right?  Well, tomorrow you can see for yourself, because Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America hits bookstores and other cool places!  Here’s the Amazon 411: A cross-country hitchhiking … Continue reading

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Gotta Read: These Are The Voyages

To boldly fangirl where…okay, just about every other fangirl has gone before.  But I can’t help it.  These Are The Voyages crossed my inbox today, and being fannish on all things Trek, I had to share.  Plus, award! These Are … Continue reading

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Scholastic book favorites get with the audiobook thing. Thanks, AudiobooksNow!

Nice catch, AudiobooksNow.  Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen and Clifford the Big Red Dog are awesome, but I’m looking forward to Rhyme & Reason from The Phantom Tollbooth and Paddington Bear. Read all about the new way you can get your elementary … Continue reading

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What’cha Reading? – Parasite, Mira Grant

Time for a little bit of couch surfing y’all. So much horror currently in the movies is either played for humor or so desperate to chill you to the bone that all the enjoyment is sucked out of it. Ergo, … Continue reading

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Bring back scary monsters? Cthulhu bless you, Craig Nybo.

Isn’t Twilight just another bad horror genre joke nowadays?  (Please tell me it is.)  Okay fine, I’ll admit it; the mythology Meyer created is intriguing, but as there’s no focus on the actual monstrosity of the monsters — they’re too … Continue reading

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Wanna taste of the reality behind American Horror Story: Coven?

The legend of Delphine Lalaurie gets a historical fiction treatment. Why should you care? Because it’s a crazy tale of high society and horror that’s based on a true story. A story that’ll get more of a spin this fall … Continue reading

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