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Secret Santa — Andrew Shaffer (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 31, 2021 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Secret Santa is a creepy horror novella from Andrew Shaffer. His Obama Biden mysteries are enjoyable, so I picked this up during the year. Of course, the best time to read a Christmas-themed book is December. My only regret is getting the review posted after the...

Three Brief Audiobooks with #OwnVoices

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 30, 2020 | RESIST: Social Justice

In between longer reads, I often pick brief Audible Originals or other short audiobooks. This group of three #ownvoices reads are about women whose lives illustrate the realities of being black and brown in a difficult world. Proof of Love by Chisa Hutchinson...

Book Review: The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 8, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Jeffrey Ford wants to give his readers a creature feature, haunted house story in The Twilight Pariah. He also wants it to be quirky and funny, by virtue of the odd trio of college students involved. Problem is, it just fell flat for me. Not scary, and not especially...

Book Review: Grief is a Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 6, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Max Porter takes grief and gives it the face of a crow in Grief is a Thing with Feathers. You think I mean figuratively. But no, in this prose poem slash novel, there is literally a Crow character. The less fantastical characters are a dad with two sons, whose mom and...

Book Review: Elevation by Stephen King

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 4, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Stephen King doesn’t always write horror stories with gore and fear. Sometimes his stories are the horror of “what if.” In Elevation, he explores what would happen if a man kept losing weight even when his body shape didn’t change. It’s an odd thing to consider horror...

Book Review: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 29, 2017 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

I spent last evening with Kent Haruf’s reflective book, Our Souls at Night. It was a five-star read packed into a short 148 pages. Haruf draws the reader simply and sweetly through the lives of two older people, like a spoon through caramel. Septuagenarian Addie...

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