Get Lost in Literature

Happy Sunday! The Sunday Post is a news meme created by  CaffeinatedReviewer. I'm also linking up with Sunday Salon at ReaderBuzz . I will be posting on the first Sunday of each month and I hope you'll join me. The weather has included unseasonably cold mornings hitting as low as 33 degrees warming up to create reasonable October days that oscillate between beautiful sunshine and dreary rain. In the month of October I hit a realization: I’m not finishing books because I’m in a bit of a reading slump. I wanted to read something light and fluffy from my own library to restoke the fire but someone recommended The Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward to me and I read four books from that instead. Four books in just ten days. I don’t know if that means the slump is over or if that just means I needed a break from more serious content. I suppose I have to pick up one of my previously unfinished books and see what happens. For the first time ever, I posted a dual review; I ...

“But no matter how hard he tries, no matter how many Mondays arrive and he swears things will be different, he mostly phones it in.” The Night Shift by Alex Finlay These are the musings of an unsuccessful lawyer in this murder mystery. Nothing says unsuccessful, quite like the phrase ‘phoning it in’. I’m curious to see where this character goes in this multiple POV book because right now I’m a little sad for him.

  Today’s prompt for the Top Ten Tuesday was listed as Halloween Freebie and I went with Top Ten Horror Novels. I think I’ve done this subject before for Halloween so I hope I didn’t repeat titles. 1. Overgrowth by Mira Grant 2. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 3. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 4. Leech by Hiron Ennes 5. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 6. Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth 7. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill 8. The Terror by Dan Simmons 9. I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist 10. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Book Blogger Hop Q: What’s the creepiest book you’ve read that isn’t officially horror, but gave you chills? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee-Addicted Writer)  A: Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips . I would classify it as historical fiction (maybe with a little bit of a mystery crossover) based on a real crime. That something like what was in the book could, and sometimes does, happen makes me check the door locks before I go to bed.

 I’m giving a two for one today as The Black Dagger Brotherhood consists of 24 books and intermingles with a series called Legacy, which brings the total up to 28 novels total. I didn’t think I needed to spam my own blog with 28 books, not that I’ve read them all yet, but it’s good to have goals. I've provided a brief summary of each book, my review is at the bottom. Dark Lover Wrath is a vampire belonging to a group of warriors known as the Black Dagger Brotherhood tasked with protecting their species from a society of vampire slayers known as the lessers. When one of the brothers is murdered, Wrath takes on the chore of protecting his daughter, a soon-to-be-vampire named Beth. Beth doesn’t know a change is coming, having walked among humans her whole life, and doesn’t believe it when she finds out. Lover Eternal Rhage is a member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood… possibly the most dangerous of them all as he harbors a dark alter ego that happens to be a killing machine. Mary L...

 I think I’m in a reading slump. I can’t make it further than the 50% mark in any book I read. The Golem and the Jinni was just the start as it turns out. Or maybe the start was Hidden Pictures when I decided the characters were too unlikable to care about. I’m not sure. I’m also stalling out on both The Reformatory and Shield of Sparrows even though there’s nothing wrong with either story. Usually when this problem occurs, I can’t pick up a book to start it, so it’s weird that I’m starting them but not reaching the finish line. Often this problem is solved (for me) by re-reading a book I previously enjoyed to get the juices flowing again. I may take a detour from unread books in my collection to do just that. But the whole thing is very unfortunate timing. I just recently decided I read so much I might enjoy Kindle Unlimited (which is how I got Shield of Sparrows ) and now I’m not using it. I’ve already decided that I’m looking for something light and fluffy to read whic...