I listened to the audio book last year but still have strong memories of it. Neil really brings the old ones to life.

He does such a great job.

I have been reliving my misspent youth of black and white horror comics. I have come to the end of the library collection with Volume 21 (extending to the end of the 1970s). It has been a slog through 111 issues. I actually project it on my large screen tv and read it while exercising. Hoopla Digital allows frame by frame advance.

Also I am working through a top 100 horror list. I am through 54 now (preloaded with about 25 already read).

"Let Me In" on audiobook - Vampire love story where the vampire definitely does not glow

"House of Leaves" in book form - Very weird Written like a fantasy reference book.

In the queue:

Chuck Palahniuk's "The Haunted" in book form which is a collection of short stories and poems with a framing story. Contains the notorious "Guts".

"The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker on audiobook

I adored House of Leaves. Pretty sure I have it tucked away on a bookshelf here.

That Hoopla Digital thing sounds great. I have years' worth of old Heavy Metal comics that would be great viewed that way.

I will try to check it out at some point. It first came out in 1977, and I was falling away from comics at that point (high school sucks - you have to break away from your leisure reading because the grades count). I really did not get back into comics until about 1984 in my final semester of college. I kept it up for three years until I got married. Took about ten years off after that. I enjoy the advent of collections and especially library access to both bound collections and borrowing systems like Hoopla. Hoopla is simply amazing. While I only have three checkouts a month. None of the three other members of my family use their check outs - so I actually have 12. 12 x 200 to 300 pages is a lot of comic reading in a month.

This second in a trilogy, is set 100 years into the future of a post-apocalyptic world. The Twelve refers to the first 12 men who were infected with a genetically engineered virus to make them the perfect soldiers. Of course everything goes wrong and this story follows the lives of 3 main characters as they try to survive.
The "virals" as they are known, seem to be a cross between zombies and vampires. If you enjoyed I Am Legend or World War Z, you will like this series.

sound entertaining. Thanks!

Retired heart transplant FBI agent gets reeled in to investigating the murder that gave him his new heart.

Harry Bosch has some cross overs as well with Terry McCaleb.

One of Connelly's older works. Won a couple of awards.

Love ANY Connelly book!

with that title.

However, there is Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward which sounds really good. "A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real."

That one is for sure going onto my list. Thanks. Hey, Japple, this one might interest you, as well.

I was doing the very same thing just a few days ago, only it was at night. Horrible experience but I am so glad for AAA. I hope your problems aren't as bad as mine are. (blown engine)

On my way home

I do not take chances anymore and got AAA. well worth it!

And it darn sure is.

Taking students on a field trip in a couple weeks to the movie. Want to have read the book by then. About 15% in and I like it.

I look forward to hearing what you thought of it, and the movie. Got the book a couple months ago but haven't gotten around to it just yet. Have fun!

for a trip to Texas.

Hi everyone and thanks, hermetic, for the weekly thread.

I got bored with 2030 by Albert Brooks, so I checked this out from the library: American Copper by Shan Ray

As Evelynne Lowry, the daughter of a copper baron, comes of age in early 20th century Montana, the lives of horses dovetail with the lives of people and her own quest for womanhood becomes inextricably intertwined with the future of two men who face nearly insurmountable losses—a lonely steer wrestler named Zion from the Montana highline, and a Cheyenne team roper named William Black Kettle, the descendant of peace chiefs.

An epic that runs from the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the ore and industry of the 1930s, American Copper is a novel not only about America’s hidden desire for regeneration through violence but about the ultimate cost of forgiveness and the demands of atonement. It also explores the genocidal colonization of the Cheyenne, the rise of big copper, and the unrelenting ascent of dominant culture. Evelynne’s story is a poignant elegy to horses, cowboys both native and euro-american, the stubbornness of racism, and the entanglements of modern humanity during the first half of the twentieth century. Set against the wide plains and soaring mountainscapes of Montana, this is the American West re-envisioned, imbued with unconditional violence, but also sweet, sweet love.

vacay! Sounds like a terrific find for your reading time. Hope you also find some great weather, good food, and all those other fun things that vacations are all about. Write if you find work.

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Very intriguing and well written.

A new thriller...
“Unputdownable.” —Stephen King
“A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware
“Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny
A smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock. Already being made into a movie.

I suspect this one will be added to a few reading lists here. Thanks.

Or delight in the idea of Florida tourists being devoured by alligators? Seems a good offset to the brutality and sadness of the other book about the Apache Wars.

Halfway through Quicksilver and reading a chapter a day of Hunter Thompson's Generation of Swine, Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's. Same old stuff--he thought Reagen's people would do time for their crimes.

chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of a London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel. Sounds good. Stephenson also wrote Snow Crash, which I really enjoyed.

HST is just one of my favorite people ever. I'm pretty sure I've read everything he ever wrote plus seen all the movies.
To Hunter!

So much fun! This is my first Agatha Christie reading.
A Study in Scarlet Women didn't cut it for me. There was a bit too much snark for my taste and too many titled characters I couldn't keep straight. Plus the whole gimmick where Charlotte left the room to "consult" with her ailing brother seemed impossible to maintain.

(quietly slides that one to the bottom of the list) Oh, I'll probably give it a look someday...maybe

Miss Marple shorts sounds delightful.

A rather hilarious present day satire about a man in his early 40s who has lost his wife and in dealing with his grief cynically challenges every worldly deception he happens to come upon -- no matter how large or small -- ruffling people's and society's feathers with exacting truth-telling along the way. About 2/3rds through it. To this point, it's really a quite entertaining and perceptive satire on the times we live in.

But that is his 4th book and they all sound really good. I look forward to reading them all. Thanks for sharing here.

Minty Fresh just cracks me up.