Book Mail

This week has been so hectic. I officially took control of the kitchen I work in, which isn't a huge difference from what I was doing before. It was however a different set of hours that are not the same every single day. It all depends on what's going on in town and my staff. This is something I've never had to do, so I've been so tired. To the point I haven't picked up any of the books, I've been reading. It's working, shower, bed, with spots of social media scrolling. So when I finally remembered to check the mail this week, I was excited to see a box from Quirk Books! 

Nothing is better than unexpected book mail when your so tired your eyes hurt!

I was even more excited when I saw which book it was because I am most definitely always in Gobin mode. But, also because I've just recently taught myself to hand sew, and it's not great. Have my patches stayed on, yes, but the stitches could be better. I'm also not the best crafter, mostly because I live with one of the best crafters and I usually mooch off of her. Now maybe I won't have to. Plus, bonus points, how adorable this book is.

And, it came with my first craft! I just need to figure out what I want to put in the little baby jar. Probably rocks of some kind. 

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

Monster hunter Erica Slaughter becomes the hunted and faces her doom alone!

With the last person in her corner gone and a ruthless agent from the Order of St. George closing in, Erica Slaughter finds herself alone and without a prayer. Can she take on this horrific new monster plaguing the small town of Tribulation, New Mexico by herself, or is this the end of her story? Erica is faced with a choice to reach out to an unexpected source for help, or find herself dealing with both a monster and her human enemies alone… Erica Slaughter faces her deadliest challenge yet in the next volume of the Eisner-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series from GLAAD Award-winning author James Tynion IV (Department of Truth, The Nice House on the Lake), artist Werther Dell’Edera (Razorblades), colorist Miquel Muerto (Radiant Red), and letterer AndWorld Design (Nightwing, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr). Collects Something is Killing the Children #26-30.

Why I'm Waiting: I love this series, and I'm not emotionally ready for the next Volume.

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large.

Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody a reliable confidant, a handywoman of all trades, and an infectious creative with an adventurous spirit. Most importantly, she was tough as nails. So when her best friend needed support to leave her abusive husband, Ronald Bax, Krystal leapt into action.

But soon Krystal became the new outlet for Bax’s rage. He terrorized and intimidated her for months on end, and finally issued a chilling warning to her and his the hunt is on . Krystal was scared but she was she reached out to the RCMP for a police escort home. The officer brushed her off.

Bax’s threat had been all too real. At 29 years old, the woman who seemed invincible—who was a beloved sister, daughter, and friend—was shot and killed at her home in the Yukon. Ronald Bax disappeared without a trace.

Three decades later, Eliza Robertson has re-opened the case. In compelling, vibrant prose, she works tirelessly to piece together Krystal’s story, retracing the dire failings of Canadian law enforcement and Bax’s last steps. I Got a Name uses one woman’s tragic story to boldly interrogate themes of gender-based violence and the pervasive issues that plague our society. In this riveting true-crime story about victimhood, power, and control, Robertson examines the broken system in place, and if it isn’t looking out for the vulnerable, the threatened, the hunted—who among us is it protecting?

HAPPY READING!!

National Sherlock Holmes Day

Today is Arther Conan Doyle's birthday, which makes today National Sherlock Holmes Day. Like most, I was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes series in school, and while most of the class hated it, like any classic we were forced to read, I fell in love. I've read Hound of the Baskervilles so much I've lost count, it's my favorite of the entire series. I've also read so many spin-off series, both good and bad. Not to mention the number of movies and TV Shows I've also seen. Also both good and bad. One had dinosaurs in it, and for the life of me, I cannot remember why. Still, the stories still remain some of my favorites, and I have collected several versions of Hound of the Baskervilles and probably will collect more in the near future.

My prized possession is the complete works edition that my parents got me many, many Christmas ago. Yeah, it's the Barnes and Noble one, but it's so pretty with its built-in bookmark and gold edges. I've never actually used it for reading because I'm so worried I'll mess up the pages or something. But, it's one of my favorite books that I own. 

So today to celebrate I might watch one of the movies, thanks to an amazing lady I even own some of the old-school Sherlock Holmes on DVD, might be time to dust those off.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

    

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

A young woman's secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation–and she must escape it before it claims her.

Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller.

In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.

The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer—and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.

Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying novel reveals the mythbound madness at the heart of American life.

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?

This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street.

Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business.

But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they'll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?

Why I'm Waiting: I love a good Camp Slasher!

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how the genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. For
 
Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit.  You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.

HAPPY READING!!

Reading Check-In

My sleep schedule, and work schedule, have been all over the place the last few weeks. So it's been hard to really sit down and read outside of my days off. But, I'm reading three great books. One is a re-read that just got a full-cast audiobook. So despite already reading two other books, I downloaded part one. I'm always looking for a reason to restart the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. 

I second put Raptor Red on the back burner because Salem's Lot is finally picking up. Currently, I don't have much of an opinion on it because I'm only twenty pages into it. It's as weird as I thought it would be though.

'Salem's Lot moved a lot slower than I thought it would. The first half of the book is really just a slice of small-town life. Now everything is starting to pick up. I'm not finding this scary exactly, but it's interesting. At the same time, I could care less about most of these characters. The Marsten House has my attention and the weird history surrounding it. 

This is probably going to be a mid-Stephen King read for me. Not a favorite, but an interestingly, spooky, small-town, kind of horror novel.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

    

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change.

Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform not only their own futures but the town itself.

Told in turn by a ghost librarian named Al, an aging (but beautiful) cat named Mortimer, and Evan himself, The Lost Library is a timeless story from award-winning authors Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. It’s about owning your truth, choosing the life you want, and the power of a good book (and, of course, the librarian who gave it to you).

HAPPY READING!!

Night Worms Unboxing

May Theme: Fables & Folklore

It's that time again! I found a Night Worms package in my mailbox. I was super excited about this one because it has Cassandra Khaw's new book! I have many of their books on my TBR, and I recently added Nothing But Blackened Teeth to my physical TBR. One of these books must be on my travel TBR next month. Also, just realized this is the second V. Castro book on my TBR. That thing is seriously getting out of control.

The goodie bag was brilliant as always. I can't wait to add this month's sticker to my new laptop that's currently on the way! This month's package also is helping me along with slowly refill our fridge with new magnets, and this one was super cute! I might try to make this month's hot beverage iced considering that we seemed to have skipped Spring here in the Pacific Northwest and barreled right into summer. 

HAPPY READING!!

Book Haul

 So I got a promotion at work this week, which WOOHOO! It wasn't exactly sprung on me, but it was still exciting all the same. This of course means after I officially accepted the position and the pieces were handled, I celebrated by jumping over to my favorite thrift store and digging up some books. Which is also a gamble because I don't always find something to add to my growing collection. But, I also really just love digging through the books. 

This trip paid off though. I found three books to add to my collection. Recently I've been adding old True Crime books to my shelves, for a plethora of reasons. But, I lucked out and found one of those, which I rarely find in this location. There was also a large stack of Choose Your Own Adventure books, like the OG ones. So I picked the most ridiculous looking two. These will defiantly be poolside, beach, and reads this summer.

HAPPY READING!!