What I’m reading

• “Gallows Hill”, Darcy Coates - does a good job at establishing a sense of creeping dread. Planning to seek our more by the author.

• “Small Spaces”, Katherine Arden - part 1 of Small Spaces series. Loved this middle grade horror series.

• “Dead Voices”, Katherine Arden - part 2

• “Dark Waters”, Katherine Arden - part 3

• “Empty Smiles”, Katherine Arden - part 4

• “Shutter”, Ramona Emerson - really enjoyed this one

• “The Last Mapmaker”, Christina Soontornvat - fantasy inspired by Thai mythology

• “Ember and the Ice Dragons”, Heather Fawcett - loved Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Figured her writing style would lend itself well to middle grade and we enjoyed this one.

• “The School Between Winter and Fairyland”, Heather Fawcett - another good middle grade fantasy

• “Grey Noise”, Marcus Hawke - interesting indie horror

• “Native Fear”, C. F. Page

• “The Last Olympian”, Rick Riordan

• “Episode Thirteen”, Craig DiLouie - found footage / what if a ghost hunters reality tv show actually encountered a haunting

• “White Horse”, Erika T. Wurth (audiobook)

• “Hell House”, Richard Matheson (audiobook)

• “The Night Parade”, Ronald Malfi (audiobook)

• “Thornhedge”, T. Kingfisher (audiobook)

• “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone”, Benjamin Stevenson (audiobook)

• “Moon of the Crusted Snow”, Rice Waubgeshig (audiobook)

• “The Legend of Skeleton Man”, Joseph Bruchac (audiobook)

• “Just Like Home”, Sarah Gailey (audiobook)

• “Rabbits”, Terry Miles (audiobook)

• “Psycho”, Robert Bloch (audiobook)

• “The Silence”, Tim Lebbon (audiobook)

• “Malorie”, Josh Malerman (audiobook)

• “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth”, Kevin Wilson (audiobook)

• “The Blighted Stars”, Megan E. O’Keefe (audiobook)

• “A Night in the Lonesome October”, Roger Zelazny (audiobook)

• “The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England”, Brandon Sanderson (audiobook) - I particularly enjoyed the bits from the guidebook sprinkled between chapters

• “The Rats”, James Herbert (audiobook)

• “The Fog”, James Herbert (audiobook)

• “The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tradking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage”, Clifford Stoll (audiobook, non-fiction)

• “America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America nd Its Enemies”, George Friedman (audiobook, non-fiction)

• “Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives”, Adam Cesare (audiobook)

• “The Bear and the Nightingale”, Katherine Arden (audiobook)

• “The Lesser Dead”, Christopher Buehlman (audiobook)

• “Wizard and Glass”, Stephen King (audiobook)

• “The Waste Lands”, Stephen King (audiobook)

• “It Waits in the Woods”, Josh Malerman (audiobook)

• “100 Fathoms Below”, Steven L. Kent (audiobook)

• “Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places”, Colin Dickey (audiobook)

• “Space: 1969”, Bill Oakley (audiobook)

• “The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patric”, Mallory O’Meara (audiobook, non-fiction)

What I’m playing

• Dying Light 2

What I’m reading

• “The Battle of the Labyrinth”, Rick Riordan.
• “Mastodon”, Steve Stred.
• “The Titan’s Curse”, Rick Riordan.
• “The Strangeworlds Travel Agency”, L.D. Lapinski.
• “The Window in the Ground”, Steve Stred.
• “The Lady fromthe Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patric”, Mallory O’Meara (audiobook).
• “Carpe Demon”, Julie Kenner (audiobook).
• “The Devil and the Dark”, Stuart Turton (audiobook).
• “Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion”, Peter F. Stevens (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Far Cry 6

What I’m reading

• “The Sea of Monsters”, Rick Riordan.
• “The Lightning Thief”, Rick Riordan.
• “The Atrocity Archives”, Charles Stross.
• “The Strangeworlds Travel Agency”, L.D. Lapinski.
• “Midnight Crossroad”, Charlaine Harris (audiobook).
• “Stranded”, Bracken MacLeod (audiobook).
• “Two Roads”, Joseph Bruchac (audiobook).
• “Out There”, Kate Folk (audiobook).
• “Gideon the Ninth”, Tamsyn Muir (audiobook).
• “Between Two Fire”, Christopher Buehlman (audiobook).
• “The Lost Colony”, A.G. Riddle (audiobook).
• “The Test”, Sylvain Neuvel (audiobook).
• “The Wastelands”, Stephen King (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Far Cry 6
• The Room
• Rumu
• The Case of the Golden Idol (finished)
• The Terrible Old Man (finished)
• Frog Detective 1 (finished)

What I’m reading

• “The Serpent in Heaven”, Charlain Harris.
• “Bad Cree”, Jessica Johns. Thoroughly enjoyed this one.
• “Witch King”, Martha Wells. Felt like you were dropped in the deep end from the start as far as world building goes, but ended up really enjoying this one. Hoping it’s the first in a series.
• “A Fistful of Charms”, Kim Harrison.
• “City Spies”, James Ponti.
• “Ghostcloud”, Michael Mann.
• “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle”, Stuart Turton (audiobook).
• “After the People Lights Have Gone Off”, Stephen Graham Jones (audiobook).
• “The House of Long Shadows”, Ambrose Ibsen (audiobook).
• “Death Troopers”, Joe Schreiber (audiobook).
• “No Kindness Too Soon”, Sylvain Neuvel (audiobook).
• “Solar War”, A. G. Riddle (audiobook).
• “Winter World”, A. G. Riddle (audiobook).
• “A Change of Plans”, Dennis E. Taylor (audiobook).
• “Feedback”, Dennis E. Taylor (audiobook).
• “Legends & Lattes”, Travis Baldree (audiobook).
• “John Dies at the End”, David Wong (audiobook).
• “An Unkindness of Magicians”, Kat Howard (audiobook).
• “When Women Were Dragons”, Kelly Barnhill (audiobook).
• “The Singularity Trap”, Dennis E. Taylor (audiobook).
• “Clowns Vs. Spiders”, Jeff Strand (audiobook).
• “Tread of Angels”, Rebecca Roanhorse (audiobook).
• “Delta-V”, Daniel Suarez (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (so much Zelda)
• Far Cry 6
• Deathloop
• Truberbrook
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (finished)

What I’m reading

• “The Name of the Wind”, Patrick Rothfuss. Re-read. Love this series.
• “The Wizards of Once”, Cressida Cowell (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Red Dead Redemption 2

What I’m reading

• “Every Which Way But Dead”, Kim Harrison.
• “Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries”, Heather Fawcett.
• “Race to the Sun”, Rebecca Roanhorse.
• “The Drawing of the Three”, Stephen King (audiobook).
• “The Gunslinger”, Stephen King (audiobook).
• “Yard Work”, David Koepp (audiobook).
• “The Haunted orest Tour”, James A. Moore, (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Red Dead Redemption 2

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What I’m reading

• “Digger Unearthed: The Complete Tenth Anniversary Collection”, Ursula Vernon.
• “Minor Mage”, T. Kingfisher.
• “Roadside Picnic”, Arkady Strugatsky (audiobook).
• “Midnight Caller”, Stephen Graham Jones (audiobook).
• “What the Dead Know”, Nghi Vo (audiobook).
• “The Psychology of Time Travel”, Kate Mascarenhas (audiobook).
• “The Case of the Haunted Haunted House”, Drew Hayes (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Red Dead Redemption 2

What I’m reading

• “The Good, the Bad, and the Undead”, Kim Harrison.
• “Dead Witch Walking”, Kim Harrison.
• “The Girl with the Dragon Heart”, Stephani Burgis.
• “The School for Good Mothers”, Jessamine Chan (audiobook).
• “Roadkill”, Dennis E. Taylor (audiobook).
• “Meddling Kids”, Edgar Cantero (audiobook).
• “The Garden”, Tomi Adejemi (audiobook).
• “Out of the Mirror, Darkness”, Garth Nix (audiobook).
• “Persephone”, Lev Grossman (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Red Dead Redemption 2

What I’m reading

• “Battle Ground”, Jim Butcher.
• “Peace Talks”, Jim Butcher.
• “Brief Cases”, Jim Butcher.
• “Skin Game”, Jim Butcher.
• “Fevered Star”, Rebecca Roanhorse. " “A House with Good Bones”, T. Kingfisher (audiobook).
• “The Memory Police”, Yoko Ogawa (audiobook).
• “The Apollo Murders”, Colonel Chris Hadfield (audiobook).
• “Lone Women”, Victor LaValle (audiobook).
• “The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant”, Drew Hayes (audiobook).
• “A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World”, C. A. Fletcher (audiobook).
• “The Gone World”, Tom Sweterlitsch (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Fallout 76

What I’m reading

• “The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart”, Stephanie Burgis. Great middle grade read. We immediately started reading the sequel when we finished this one.
• “Klara and the Sun”, Kazuo Ishiguro (audiobook).
• “Demon Theory”, Stephen Graham Jones (audiobook).
• “How High We Go in the Dark”, Sequoia Nagamatsu (audiobook).
• “The Destroyer of Worlds”, Matt Ruff (audiobook).
• “How to Sell a Haunted House”, Grady Hendrix (audiobook).
• “You Feel it Just Below the Ribs”, Jeffrey Cranor (audiobook).
• “A Gift of Time”, Jerry Merritt (audiobook).

What I’m playing

• Red Dead Redemption 2