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Can’t Wait Wednesday (1/20/21)
If you’re like me, you’re probably glued to Inauguration news right now. In case you’re taking a break though, it’s time to share what upcoming book I’m super excited for! Are you ready? Today’s pick is a little on the creepier side. I can’t deny that I love a good scare, but what I REALLY love is female written horror. This book looks SO GOOD. Want to join me in fawning over it? Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists. A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations…
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The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (1/11/21)
Apologies for the radio silence friends! I hoped to have a book review to share with you today but, well, the current state of our country has been weighing heavy and I haven’t felt much like finishing my book. I’m sure I’m not alone, but it’s been a rough few days for productivity of any kind. Still, I promised myself that we’d start 2021 out strong here at HDB Blog, so let’s take baby steps with a weekly meme shall we? Read Last Week: As I mentioned, I haven’t finished a book at all yet. Alas. I probably would have…
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Bookish (And Not So Bookish) Thoughts #3
“I had always had mixed feelings about Narnia, mostly because of the heavy-handed lion-Jesus allegory. I suddenly had very strong feelings that C. S. Lewis had not spent nearly enough time on the sudden realization, when moving between worlds, that nothing could be taken for granted. Maybe fog hung around all day here, even when the sky was bright. Maybe there was no night, or maybe this was what night looked like. Maybe gravity stopped working here on Tuesdays.” The Hollow Ones – T. Kingfisher Starting off the year right, with a quote from my current read! If you haven’t…
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Goodbye 2020, we aren’t all that sad to see you go.
Well friends, we’ve made it! This year has been a… challenge, to say the least. People have had their lives uprooted, lost jobs, lost friends, lost loved ones. I think though, if we look hard enough, we all gained some things too. I spent last night taking a look at things that were actually good about 2020, and I’d like to share them with you. I know it’s easy to just consider this a trash year, and move on. But what lessons has this really given us? Here’s what I found. This year gave me a chance to be truly…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (12/28/20)
Good morning friends! We have made it to the last Monday of the year. How are we feeling? If you’re like me, you might feel torn between having hope and worrying that we’re in for a lot more of the same. But the good thing is that we’ve made it this far! We’ve survived. That is something to celebrate. Anyway, enough rambling from me. Let’s get back to bookish things. I think I’ve been doing pretty well at posting in here semi-regularly, and plan to push that into the new year! I enjoy this a lot! Read Last Week: I…
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Merry Christmas!
While I know that this year looks a lot different than most, we wish you all the merriest of Christmases! May your cocoa be hot, your pajamas be cozy, and all of your presents be of the bookish persuasion.
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Book Review: Whispering Pines by Heidi Lang and Kati Bartowski
A young boy and girl who must protect their small town from otherworldly forces threatening to destroy it. Rae’s father vanished without a trace—and Rae knows what happened to him. But no one believes her when she says that her father didn’t run off, that he was actually taken. Now, a year of therapy later, Rae’s mother decides they need a fresh start, and so they move to a new town in the hope that life can return to normal. The problem is, there is nothing normal about the town of Whispering Pines. No one knows this better than Caden.…
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F Is For Friday! Or, the new year starts when?
Friends, it has been a week. Even with Monday off, this week felt like it was endless. I think it's just because of everything *gestures wildly* going on. In the world, and in my head. I felt the need to do something fun, so bring on a Friday meme! This is my first time participating in "F Is For Friday" and I'm so very ready!
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Bookish (And Not So Bookish) Thoughts #2
“Distance between true friends doesn’t matter when their friendship lives in their hearts” The Blackbird Girls – Anne Blankman I had forgotten that I planned a series of these posts, where I shared a recent quote that applied to that week and then just rambled. It was kind of fun to go back to my last one (the only one so far) and see how I felt at that point. Spoiler alert: it’s not far off from how I’ve been feeling lately. The biggest difference is that 2020 has given me the time and space to learn how to cope…
