So glad for my alarm. Had the worst dream where I kept walking through the same building in circles.

I did not like Our Wives Under the Sea. I think the book could be good with a few more iterations, but that's not what we got. My issues are that it's too repetitive and there's just no catharsis to the end of the story. (some spoilers) 1/ 📚💙🩸

Reading a book where it swaps perspective and time every 5 pages and it’s driving me insane. Thankfully I’m almost done. 📚💙

Just finished "Slade House." Started really, really strong, but unfortunately didn't finish as strongly. I feel like it got too explainy toward the end. I'd recommend it as a good Halloween book even for non-horror readers, but it's probably too late for that.🩸📚💙

This shit is awesome. IDK how to even describe it. (NOUT on KEXP) 🎧#musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4E6...

Finished "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Tom Sweterlitsch, a scifi thriller. I liked it. My main criticism is that I think the front has too much focus on AR/VR descriptions, but that gets rectified in the latter half. I think I eve would have liked it more than The Gone World if not for that. 🪐📚💙

Wednesday's next album can't come soon enough. Love their music.

Just finished Books of Blood. I love Clive Barker. Last volume wasn’t my favorite, but now I’ll add reading his books to my list. 🩸📚💙

Recently read "The Crypt of the Moon Spider" and it was really good! It's a lovecraftian novella. Good premise, good suspense, good like character introspection, good horror. Just really well done. I can't wait to read the next two installments in the trilogy.🩸📚💙

I finished The Gone World and I really, really liked it. Might be my favorite scifi now. I like how it gave time for characters to breathe with relationships and also to deal with feelings of pain and loss. And I think I'm a sucker for this type of time travel... 1/🪐📚💙

The Gone World is cool so far (~20%). Weird detective time-travel scifi. 🪐📚💙

DNFed Grey Dog. I read ~25% and neither the horror nor the lesbian plot had started. Maybe it picks up after that, but I got a little too bored with it by then. I'm just not a huge fan of that type of setting without more going on. 💙📚🩸📚🌈

Halfway through Eden by Lem. Really cool so far. 💙📚🪐

New Mamalarky album soon? 👀 #music #rock #indiemusic #indierock

Reading more Clive Barker (Books of Blood vol. 4). He’s soooo good. 💙 📚 🩸

Me: "Hey, check out this cat themed page holder I made!" . My Wife: "It looks like you're putting your thumb in a cat's butt. . Me: "Well.....damn it." #woodworking #shelfie #booksky #reading #book #books #pageholder

I started reading "Klara and the Sun." I don't think I like Ishiguro's scifi as much as his historical fiction.💙📚🪐

Finished the Haunting of Hill House. I really liked, but I guess that's not a surprise. I maybe relate too much to Eleanor. The characterization is really good. She and Theodora feel way too real. "Do you always go where you're not wanted." Ugh. Maybe I need to find my Hill House. 💙📚🩸

Finished Annihilation. Wasn't at all what I expected. Kinda SCP and creepypasta-like. I liked it although I kind of feel like it had too many mysteries without anything solid to hold on to, although maybe the sequels start answering some of it. 💙📚🪐

Finished Wizard of Earthsea! It's been a long while since I've read any fantasy and it's nice to return. 1/2 For the sequels, can I just read them by themselves or is there one big story separated by multiple books? 📚🪐💙📚👀

Just got to The Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov. 💙📚👀

A quarter through the Brothers Karamazov. ideologies. 💙📚👀 While I understand why people may be turned off by Dostoyevsky, I love how wacko all his characters are. It’s like they all have personality disorders. And then there are always the few with nonsense

Finished Prophet Song (spoilers): 💙📚👀

About halfway into Prophet Song and I can't believe how unrealistic it is. Where is the pedophile running the justice system? Where is the antivaxxer who doesn't believe in HIV running health services? Where is the TV host running the military? More seriously, I do think this portrays... 💙📚👀

Started White Noise by DeLillo. Thought it would be different enough to take my mind away from things, but now I'm reading about Hitler and how everything is meaningless. I'm apparently really bad at picking books lol. 💙📚👀

Having recently read Pachinko and Remains of the Dead, An Artist of the Floating World is maybe a little too similar so far. It is well-written and enjoyable though. It also seems to be happier than Remains of the Dead so far, at least, even if the narrator seems like a worse person. 💙📚👀

With all this men discourse after the election, maybe I shouldn't have picked a Kazuo Ishiguro book to read next (An Artist of the Floating World). Really didn't expect it to be like all about gender, although maybe not that unexpected in hindsight.💙📚

Recently finished The Story of Your Life and Others. Really surprised to see how religious many of the stories were. I think the titular piece is the best and really has a special something. I really liked the Tower of Babylon story too. 💙📚

Recently finished Pride and Prejudice. I liked it a lot. Haven't ever read romance before (although I've watched enough Hallmark movies lol), so I enjoyed gaining that perspective. But it was also just a very well-written book. Now I just need to wait for my Mr. Darcy.💙📚

Recently finished The Elementals. I really liked it. I thought it was really well-written. I loved the imagery and the build-up. I didn't quite love the ending, but it was good enough. It was also better in every way than the other book I read for October (The Graveyard Apartment).💙📚