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Category Archives: Horror
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty – a Book Review
This book was quite fittingly the October book pick for Read Between the Wines. Let’s face it, this is a classic horror novel. Though, if I’m being honest, I hear a lot more about the movie than I do the … Continue reading
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones – a Book Review
I will try to do this review justice, as I read it back in October and then fell off the face of the Earth and made no progress with reviews. It’s not because I didn’t enjoy this book, because I … Continue reading
In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce – a Book Review
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, a woman by the name of Belle Gunness, a Norwegian immigrant born Brynhild Paulsdatter Storset, quietly terrorized Chicago and La Porte, Indiana. It is now thought Gunness may have been responsible for the … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Horror, thriller, Uncategorized
Tagged belle gunness, black widow of la porte, Book, book blog, book review, reading, serial killers
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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Book Review
Well, that was different. Refreshingly different in a lot of ways. One of our book club members chose SBCGSV (because this title is a mouthful, so I’ve made it sound like a 90’s boy band) for our January reading selection. … Continue reading
Home Before Dark – Book Review
If you just read my review for The Garden of Burning Sand this review is going to feel very different. Honestly, if I read books simultaneously, which is often do, I like for them to feel completely different so they … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday – January 13, 2021
What a crazy start to the new year. I have gotten back to posting and actually have two reviews to post in the next couple of days, and I’m as encouraged about my own pursuits as I seem to be … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, mystery, thriller, Uncategorized
Tagged book blog, book review, books, LibGirlBooks, WWW Wednesday
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WWW Wednesday – December 2, 2020
My apologies for my more than brief hiatus. This has been such a weird year fraught with unexpected hurdles. Henry and I are quarantined at home now after he got exposed at his preschool to Covid, and even before that … Continue reading
Posted in General fiction, Horror, Memoir, mystery, Nonfiction
Tagged book review, books, LibGirlBooks, reading, WWW Wednesday
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Cold Storage by David Koepp – Book Review
While his name might not immediately ring any bells for a lot of readers, odds are every single person who reads this review has encountered the work of David Koepp at some point in the past thirty-plus years. Koepp is … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, thriller
Tagged book review, books, LibGirlBooks, Pandemic thriller, Scary reads
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A Librarian and Her Books 