![]() ![]() The novel begins simply enough, a woman named Melissa, whose friends call Mouse, is asked by her ailing father to clear out her recently deceased grandmother’s house in North Carolina. ![]() Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night-from both fear and anticipation of what happens next. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.įrom Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.Īlone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. ![]() ![]() Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. After all, how bad could it be?Īnswer: pretty bad. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. It sinks its hooks into you, draws blood, elicits uncontrollable chills, and simply infects you. Sometimes a book just grabs you and won’t let go. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Author Catherine Marshall has some sweet takes on bringing Christ's love to the world-even if that world is openly hostile and suspicious of it. I hated the first 5 pages, and then loved the rest. She falls for the preacher man (kind of) and stays for the typhoid. City girl/woman heads to Appalachia in the early 1900s to teach the little wild mountain children some reading, writing and religion. ![]() Turns out the Mormon ladies join the great Mama Needs Coffee in seeking books that won't make you blush. In my quest to find some rather squeaky-clean picks for a book club, I stumbled upon a fantastic resource on Goodreads: LDS Book Club Reads. So the pic above shows said battery-jumping novels, plus two non-fictions, but somehow ALL of it skewed toward the feminine, hence the "lady edition" of this book report. I said on Coffee & Donuts a few weeks ago that once I get mired down in too much non-fiction, I'm hopeless to finish anything until a good novel jumps my literary battery and gets me rolling again. Or more accurately-she started reading fiction again, which in turn, helped her start reading non-fiction again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jo studied at Exeter University, where she read so widely outside her French and Classics syllabus that she clocked up a fine of £50 for overdue books at the University library. At just eleven, she wrote her first novel – about seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them. She wrote her first book at the age of six – a story about a rabbit, called ‘Rabbit’. Jo wanted to be a writer from an early age. “I was your basic common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.” The young Jo grew up surrounded by books. Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Jo was a teenager and died in 1990, before the Harry Potter books were published. Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive, where Jo herself went to school. ![]() Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Princess Trap – Talia Hibbert | Work for It – Talia Hibbert | The Merciful Crow – Margaret Owen | Spellbound – Allie Therin | You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone – Rachel Lynn Solomon | Shadow of the Fox – Julie Kagawa | Layover – Katrina Jackson | Soul of the Sword – Julie Kagawa | Seduction’s Canvas – K.M. So, here’s the stuff I’ve done this month! It’s not as much as usual, but honestly… I don’t care. This book features a Scottish snowstorm, grumpy/sunshine, and cats named after breakfast foods. Hollywood heartthrob Will goes home for Christmas, and is determined to win over his childhood friend, cynical divorce Abbie. But, it is what it is and all I can do is handle it the best way I can. A standalone Christmas novella published by Kobo and only available on their platform. I sincerely wish I could actually be staying at home, though. They’ve published 17 romance novels since 2017 two of these were released during quarantine ( Take a Hint, Dani Brown and Wrapped Up in You ), and the latest, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, was published this year. My hours got cut, but I wasn’t laid off like thousands of others that work for my company, for which I am grateful. But Talia took the plunge, and, spoiler alert: it was worth it. ![]() My state is (finally) under a shelter in place order, but all three of us have been deemed essential, which means that we are all still employed. As of right now, everyone I know and love is safe from this damned disease. Everything is just so much right now that it’s hard to focus on anything, and as a result, I have very little to share with you. ![]() (Sorry for the cursing, Mom!) The month of March has basically been washed over with panic and anxiety. ![]() |