Next up - Hekla's Children (James Brogden) #booksky #amreading

Books for the last couple of weeks - HCA Fairy Tales wound up being a rather delightful slog? Very cute, keep. RL Stine's The Babysitter I-IV - cliché in the best way, keep. We Are the Dead (Mike Shackle) - not a fair, inconsistent worldbuilding, weird about women. chuck. #booksky #amreading

Book 358 is Hans Christian Andersen's "Fairy Tales," which is a nice choice for Halloween! www.goodreads.com/book/show/88... #booksky #amreading

I Have No Secrets (Penny Joelson) is also a solid YA thriller -- again, just outgrown. CHUCK. www.goodreads.com/book/show/43... #booksky #amreading

The Territory (Sarah Govett) is actually a solid YA sci fi entry with some better handled themes than some other additions to the genre -- I've just outgrown it, so I'm passing it along. CHUCK. www.goodreads.com/book/show/14... #amreading #booksky

Orphan, Monster, Spy (Matt Killeen) was an entertaining if not entirely realistic read. MC felt like they were able to succeed at absolutely everything pretty easily. CHUCK. www.goodreads.com/book/show/36... #booksky #amreading

Ring (Koji Suzuki) is a similar three stars. A slow burn that also has a lot of weirdly misogynistic comments about women? That I honestly struggled to get into. CHUCK. www.goodreads.com/book/show/38... #booksky #amreading #spookyreads

Sorry for the silence. Updating my book list atm with my most recent read, James Hynes' "Sparrow," which is an interesting three stars but a bit of a meandering story. CHUCK. www.goodreads.com/book/show/98... #booksky #amreading

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Okay so I have finally acquired an ereader! Please rec some your indie self pub ebooks for me to read! Apparently Amazon no longer allows you to download a file so that's out, unfortunately, but any info on platforms is helpful while I look into publishing my own #indieauthors #booksky #writersky

Oh and also a couple of mangas - Orange (the entire series) which was a tearful ride from start to finish, and the first volume of Golden Sheep, which is exactly what I want in a slice of life manga and I'll def pick up the rest #booksky #amreading #manga #anime

Reads this week: Automatic Eve (a CHUCK, short stories with little substance), Halloween Night 1 & 2 for the spooky vibes (very weak premises, and again hitting the blonde/brunette/redhead count), and finally There Will Be Lies, a gorgeous Native American horror - a keep! #booksky #amreading

So Darkest Dungeon didn't really do it for me -- that's a CHUCK. Fishflies, on the other hand, I really enjoyed, I highly recommend if you can! #booksky #comicsky #indiecomics #amreading

www.goodreads.com/book/show/19... Up next - another comic anthology -- Dark Spaces: Dungeon (Scott Snyder) #booksky #amreading #comics #indiecomics #horror #horrorcomics

Other reads this week: Black Lily (Phillippa Stockley), CHUCK, too much telling and not a lot of nuance. Picture Imperfect (Jacqueline Wilson), KEEP and it made me cry, and Teacher's Pet (Richie Tankersley Cusick), a cliche but kept as the collection. Also again with blode/brunet/redhead #booksky

A great start that ultimately fails to bring together a cohesive and fun final act. CHUCK, which is disappointing

Currently reading: The Dissonance (Shaun Hamill). I do love a good coming of age, small town mystery mixed with horror (IT is my favourite book) so fingers crossed for this one. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... #booksky #amreading

The Elites (Natasha Ngan) - DNF because it felt far too cliched and much to YA for my taste. CHUCK. They Bloom at Night (Trang Thanh Tran) - a haunting four stars and a KEEP, I really enjoyed this one. Confusing in places, but the body horror and atmosphere are superb. #booksky #amreading

Book roundup - Come Find Me - felt too short to really let the stories get going, which is a shame. CHUCK The Ghost Bride (Yangsze Choo) - liked it, but the instalove triangle turned me off it, CHUCK (cont) #amreading #booksky

Also read in the interim - Hidden Pictures, which is fun but falls apart by the end (CHUCK), The Only Child (DNF, couldn't mesh with the writing), and Jurassic Park (five stars, KEEP), finishing up the week with The Elites (Natasha Ngan) www.goodreads.com/book/show/16... #amreading #booksky

So wow this took a while to get through. It's a KEEP, though I wouldn't call it a fun read. A very indepth coverage of the case, I recommend if you're interested. #booksky #amreading #truecrime

Roll 319, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller. This case has been one of my special interests for a long time and I tracked this book down a while ago, so it'll be interesting to have another deep dive. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #amreading #booksky #truecrime

A KEEP as it's part of my collection, but this was shlocky, nonsensical fun. They're like 80s horror movies in book form 🤣 Also I swear every novel has a blonde, brunette, and redhead. I'm going to start keeping count. #booksky #amreading #horror #shorthorror #pointhorror

Can you believe I've actually cleared a shelf of my TBR list! I'm genuinely very proud of myself; space is so limited, I have to be so choosey about what I keep! Only about 350 left to go... #booksky #amreading

Roll 292 is a Point Horror, "The Witness," by RL Stine. A good old fashioned pulpy horror novel. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... #amreading #booksky #pointhorror #shorthorror

I enjoyed this more than I expected! The characters are relatable and fun, the lore is interesting, I think the pacing could use a little work, but not a bad read at all. CHUCK, but a recommended read! #booksky #amreading

www.goodreads.com/book/show/60... Next roll #215, Sixteen Souls (Rosie Talbot). Goodreads says YA so it may be out of my genre but I'll give it a crack as a fun read. #booksky #amreading

DNF at about 40 pages in. Really can't with the stereotypical Japanese worldbuilding that's straight out of the YA first fantasy novel playbook. The writing style is nice and easy to read but fairly jarring when all your characters have modern dialogue. CHUCK. #amreading #booksky #fantasybook

www.goodreads.com/book/show/10... Roll 100 is Jay Kristoff's Stormdancer. Never tried any of his books so I'm curious. #booksky #amreading #fantasybooks

Finished, and this one's a CHUCK. It's a really interesting read but ultimately very dry and dense, plus the author seems intent on pushing their own theories in what's meant to be a straight up reporting of events. Interesting nonetheless! #booksky #amreading #paranormal #highstrangeness

Next read, roll 103 - Disembodied Voices by Rodney Davies, guess it's the week for clearing the non fiction shelf! www.goodreads.com/book/show/62... #booksky #amreading #paranormal #ghosts #highstrangeness

Today's read: Original Ghosts of the Isle of Wight by Gay Baldwin. A fun book of British folklore, I have the whole set and it's a great read. A keep! www.goodreads.com/book/show/69... #amreading #booksky #paranormal #iow #isleofwight #ghosts

Finished 27 June 2025, a KEEP. I was really impressed with this one; an unreliable narrator with a strong personality and very good rep for mental illness. It's portrayed in a way that's horribly realistic and by the end, incredibly sad. Hannah broke my heart by the end. #booksky #amreading

Current read: A Danger To Herself and Others (Alyssa B Sheinmel) Start date 27 June 2025 www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...

Finished the final four Torchwood novels (The House That Jack Built, Consequences, The Undertaker's Gift, Risk Assessment), thoroughly impressed by none of them so CHUCK. Jackal (Erin E Adams) also didn't do much on the scare factor, also a CHUCK.

Making my way through the Torchwood books (The Twilight Streets, Pack Animals, Almost Perfect, Into the Silence, Bay of the Dead), very mid so far. All are a CHUCK Moving on to The House That Jack Built while I wait for the others to arrive at the library #booksky #amreading #torchwood #doctorwho

Finally Slow Decay (Andy Lane): goodreads.com/book/show/29... This was just... okay. Felt like a bit of a filler episode, dialogue was pretty good. Rhys deserves far better, as ever. A CHUCK but nowhere near as much of a slog as the first two. #booksky #amreading #torchwood #doctorwho #scifi

www.goodreads.com/book/show/30... Border Princes (Dan Abnett), has a better grasp on the characters than the first book but throws the reader for a loop on the cold open and is hard to follow, with the resolution crammed into the last few pages. CHUCK. #booksky #amreading #torchwood #doctorwho

Books for this week: Where Sleeping Girls Lie (Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé), a CHUCK. Disappointed it leaned more into the thriller rather than the dark academia; felt like a wasted setting. Also goes on for 600 pages when it doesn't need to. #booksky #amreading www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/15... Working my way through the Torchwood novels since I finally finished the TV show. A weak start to the series so going into the CHUCK box, hopefully the rest of them are better. #booksky #amreading #torchwood #doctorwho

www.goodreads.com/book/show/15... This was... not for me. I don't get the hype at all. Lots of telling, dubious sci fi names, unnecessary capitalisation... yep this is definitely a CHUCK for me. #booksky #amreading

Roll 96 - Red Rising, by Pierce Brown. Highly recommended so lets give it a shot. #amreading #booksky #scifi www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Coming in again with "what the fuck did I just read," this book gets under your skin and burrows. The emperor of mud sits atop his throne and demands we sing. KEEP. Surrounded by a ring of salt. Just in case. #booksky #amreading #horrorcommunity #horrorwriting

KEEP! This is a really fascinating book and a solid four stars, does anyone else have recommendations for books about this case? #amreading #booksky #paranormal #highstrangeness

www.goodreads.com/book/show/46... Roll 268, The Enfield Poltergeist Tapes. Actually a special interest of mine and a reread. #amreading #booksky #paranormal #highstrangeness

www.goodreads.com/book/show/77... This was purely a me problem -- I couldn't get past the lack of punctuation and run on sentences. A shame as I really wanted to give this a try. DNF, CHUCK. #amreading #booksky

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... An easy read with beautiful descriptions, especially of the embroidery. However the character work is really weak -- Little Flower can do no wrong and Linjing can do nothing right, and more nuance would have made this book amazing. CHUCK. #booksky #amreading

Not a bad start at all! Not a keep but I definitely enjoyed it. CHUCK. #booksky #amreading #torchwood

Roll 276 is Skypoint, one of the long neglected Torchwood novels. I've been told they can be read in any order so lets see how confused I get. Started 20 April 2025 www.goodreads.com/book/show/32... #booksky #amreading #torchwood

Incidents Around the House: www.goodreads.com/book/show/19... What the fuck did I just read. I have never been more uncomfortable in my life. Other Mommy made my skin crawl. They should just burn that house down to be safe. Cracking read, great job. KEEP! #booksky #amreading #horrorcommunity