A few days late but here’s the July TBR stack! Keeping up with my BotM Club picks, getting to some that have been on the pile too long, and some I that I just got.

Book 60 - Finished this one in a day. A fun, fast read! 💙📚

Book 59 - Crazy week but I finished this a few days ago. Is it bad that I would still go to this resort after the murders that happen here? 💙📚

Book 58 - This was from Night Worms’ March package. Not as dark as some other gothic horror/thrillers if you’re looking for something in that genre but prefer your readers on the lighter side. 📚💙

Dark Ink is an amazing event and I am beyond thrilled to be on a panel this year! Horror/dark fiction fans, check it out:

Book 56 - Got this @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social at last year’s Dark Ink & am absolutely getting a copy of Diana Rodriguez Wallach’s Stoker-winning The Silenced at this year’s event. I love a good creepy forest and Lizzie Borden adjacent story. (And a book written by an Eagles fan. Go Birds.) 📚💙

Book 56 - Another one I finished a few days ago. A very modern style mystery that explores the seedy clubs of the immediate postwar era. 💙📚

Book 55 - Behind on my book posts, again. I finished this last week and really enjoyed. I don’t read a lot of straight scifi, but this had great characters and some great plot twists and reveals. 💙📚

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Book 54 - Another one I finished a few days ago. This had been sitting on my shelf for a while. 💙📚

Book 53 - Finished this over the weekend. It’s one I bought on whim in London the other year. Out of the norm from what I usually read but I thoroughly enjoyed this. Great character development. 💙📚

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The number of dipshit writers thinking they are being clever or profound by interacting with AI and then writing about it is getting a bit much. Not a single one has been non-stupid. You sound pathetic. Just do not use it, full stop.

Book 52 - This is a great work about identity, jealousy, and the intersection (or lack thereof) between art and technology. It was a Night Worms pick last year, but isn’t your traditional horror novel. 💙📚

Book 51 - This was a lot of fun. I wasn’t expecting the dual storylines, but they both worked so well. Loved how everything came together. 💙📚

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June TBR Stack! 💙📚

Book 50 - Coincidentally, I read two crime books incorporating movie-making and screenplay excerpts in a row! I borrowed this one from my sister and wanted to get it back to her. 💙📚

Book 49 - Behind on my book posting! I read this last week on the plane back from LA, and it was the perfect book to read 1) when escaping LA and 2) I couldn’t put it down and devoured it all on the flight. I have at least one more Howard book on my TBR pile, and I can’t wait to read it. 💙📚

Book 48 - A republished classic from the British Library Crime Classics series. The quintessential locked room mystery! 💙📚

Book 47 - The dogs are at home and not on vacation with me, so my new friar pal will have to do. This one’s a great contemporary Gothic horror. I love a good insane asylum and this one has a doozy! 💙📚

Wawa is perfectly fine. But Sheetz really is better.

Book 46 - I got this one in a Strand Book Hookup box and didn’t know anything about it or what to expect. It was great! An excellent crime noir set in 1940s Sam Francisco that explores the racism and classicism of the time within the workings of a well-crafted whodunit. 💙📚

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BUT WILL IT INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL RAP FROM MANIAC COP 2??? (It’s on Apple Music. Just search Maniac Cop 2 Rap. Descriptions can’t do it justice.)

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Laughing to keep from crying.

Book 45 - If you think Chock and Bates were robbed this Winter Olympics, do I have the book for you! Not my typical read, but I got this one as my free Lolly nominee pick this year. It’s a lot of fun. 💙📚

Book 44 - I’ve never listened to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, but I’ve read two of the novels and adored each one. They seem utterly silly at first but are anchored by real warmth and love for the characters. 📚💙

Book 43 - What a great follow-up to The Eyes Are the Best Part. Thoroughly enjoyed this. 📚💙

when people defend the use of AI to help them write it usually boils down to “I’m stuck” or “the hard part is hard” and it makes me think of how muscles only get stronger thru microscopic tears caused by effort/stress

Book 42 - This has been on my TBR for far too long (2+ years). A change of pace from what I usually read. Just as good as people say. 💙📚

I saw The Sheep Detectives last night & I agree with all of this. This movie did not have to go this hard. And it did. You should go see it. (And bring tissues.)

Book 41 - Finished this last week and it’s so much fun. Old Hollywood, crumbling houses, vengeful ghosts! It reminds me of my dream to one day be the ghost that haunts my house. (We already have a ghost cat.) @cheriepriest.com 💙📚

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May TBR Stack!

Book 40 - A few days late but I finished the final book of my April TBR stack. Fairy tale retellings are hit or miss for me, depending on how much I’m into the tale. Cinderella was never one of my favorites but this might be why I enjoyed Hochhauser’s take! 📚💙

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

@phillies-therapy.com coined “ghostbuster” for a reliever that keeps the manfred man (and everyone else) from scoring in extras and i need more people to use that term

The Phillies won both games today on walk-offs! 7/24/98 was last time Phillies won both games of a doubleheader via walk-off Last MLB team before today: 5/28/04 Pirates

World Series back on!!! #RingTheBell

My mom and I were wondering when this last happened and I said, “Sarah Langs will know.”

Book 39 - Another read in my quest to catch up on my books from subscription packages! This was a Night Worms from last year that is more lighthearted Practical Magic-ish rather than dark Gothic horror. 📚💙