Get Lost in Literature

Book Beginnings on Fridays by Rose City Reader -  Share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now. "Richard Strickland reads the brief from General Hoyt. He's at eleven thousand feet. The twin-prop taking hits as hard as a boxer's fists." This is one of my top ten favorite movies of all time. And while I don't remember what came first the movie or the book, either way it's great. If you've never heard of Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, it's a sci-fi/fantasy/romance about a mute woman who falls in love with a thing that's essentially The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Book Blogger Hop  Q: Do you like to annotate your books or leave them untouched? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer) A: I leave them untouched and take notes in a separate notebook.

 Today's Top Ten Tuesday is a book blog meme hosted by ThatArtsyReaderGirl . Today's topic is  Destination Titles (titles with name of places in them.)  1. Redwall by Brian Jacques 2. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 3. The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty 4. Babel by RF Kuang 5. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse 6. Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey 7. Zodiac Station by Tom Harper 8. Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton 9. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs 10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Have you read any of these? What's your favorite fictional place?

 I'm taking a break from reviewing through the month of November. I want to recharge my batteries a bit. I don't want to fall into a reading slump from overdoing and November is a busy month. I'm participating in NaNoWriMo ( I won't make it anywhere near the winning word count ), Christmas shopping, and of course spending time with my family Thanksgiving week. And that's all on top of my regular schedule of work, making sure my horse is taken care of, and my never ending battle with laundry. But don't worry, I'll be back in December and I'll still be posting for my blog memes ( I think ).

Happy Sunday!  The Sunday Post is a weekly news meme created by  Caffeinated Reviewer . I will be posting on the first Sunday of each month and I hope you'll join me. The weather for the month of October was chilly, colder and damper than I remember of last year's October. Windier too. The leaves dropped off the trees like orange bolts of lightning. I'm wondering if it's a sign of the winter to come. The books I read in October were theme reads because Halloween is my favorite holiday. So today my review list presents a lovely assortment of witches and murderers. Books I reviewed in October were: Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire  (expected pub. date: 3/25/25) The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones The Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell In other news, someone stole my blog layout, and I'm not inspired to change my blog to accommodate the theft. I like the blues, blacks, and grays, I like my banner, I like my choices. I'm not sure what led t

Today's Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by ThatArtsyReaderGirl , was listed as Halloween Freebie, so I present to you my Top Ten Favorite Horror Stories. 1. Dracula by Bram Stoker 2. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 3. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 4. Summer of Night by Dan Simmons 5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 6. Devolution by Max Brooks 7. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 8. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 9. Leech by Hiron Ennes 10. Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist What's your favorite horror novel?

  There will be no review today, as I spent last week reading Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer  (publication date set for January 28, 2025), and I have to be within a month of posting my review. My review is scheduled for January 6, 2025 so don't forget to stop by.