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  • 13 Days of Halloween

    13 Days of Halloween

    As a Kid I grew up watching 13 Days of Halloween every year on ABC Family, it was, arguably my favorite time of year to watch TV, after all Halloween is my favorite holiday! Now, they still have something similar to it, but, I haven’t had actual TV in almost…

    Oct 21, 2025
    bookish, discussion
    13 days of halloween, best holiday everrrrrr, family, ghostbusters, great pumpkin, gremlins, Halloween, halloween movies, halloween tree, halloweentoown, horror movies, kid movies, spooky month, to watch list, twitches
  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs: Film VS. Book

    By the Pricking of My Thumbs: Film VS. Book

    While visiting Tommy’s Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents including Mrs. Lancaster who mystifies her with talk about “your poor child” and “something behind the fireplace”. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW One of the darker Christie’s I have read and I’ve read my fair share so…

    Oct 16, 2025
    Book Review
    agatha christie, book blogger, book list, Book Review, Books, by the pricking of my thumbs, film vs book, miss marple, mystery, Reading, Tommy and tuppence
  • Hellboy Vol.1 : Seed of Destruction

    Hellboy Vol.1 : Seed of Destruction

    Hellboy discovers the secrets of his own origins, and his link to the Nazi occultists who promised Hitler a final solution in the form of a demonic avatar.  –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Another graphic novel club pick! I was excited for this one, I am an unashamedly *HUGE* fan of both…

    Oct 14, 2025
    Book Review
    book blogger, Book Review, bookclub, comics, Graphic novel, Halloween vibes, Hellboy, John Byrne, local comic shop, Mike Mignola, Reading, Seed of Destruction
  • The Space Between the Trees Tour Review

    The Space Between the Trees Tour Review

    The forest isn’t just alive -it’s watching. The couple must find a way to escape before they become lost forever in a world that defies logic and reason.  –StoryGraph Book Synopsis: Norm Konyu delivers a supernatural and psychological thriller graphic novel, set in an eerie and extraordinary forest where Meera and Mark, an ordinary couple, find…

    Oct 12, 2025
    Book Review, Graphic Novel/Comic
    beautiful art, Blog Tour, book blogger, Book Review, book reviews, Book Trailer, Books, Canada, creepy read, eARC, Fantasy, folk horror, folklore, forests, Graphic novel, Halloween, halloween read, Horror, new release, Norm Konyu, psychological, Reading, The Space Between the Trees, titan comics, trees
  • Mini Comic Reviews!

    Mini Comic Reviews!

    This was a super fun pulp story. (There may have been some issues of syntax/grammar, writing this too late to recall other than a vague feeling lol) I love things set in this time period of the 30s/40s and the unique origins of our Kraken character definitely made me a…

    Oct 9, 2025
    Book Review, Graphic Novel/Comic
    A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge, book blogger, Book Review, Books, comics, David Hartman, eARCs, gifted review, graphic novels, Josh Neufeld, Kraken, Linnea Sterte, Reading, Shannon Eric Denton, Stages of Rot, titan comics
  • Zorro

    Zorro

    A child of two worlds the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late-eighteenth-century California. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW I’ve been a fan of Zorro since I was…

    Oct 7, 2025
    Book Review
  • Mini Comic Reviews!

    Mini Comic Reviews!

    I think the art was probably better than the story for me, but that being said I really was invested in this story. I liked that Hawkmoon was young and rash; and that he had to deal with the consequences of that. It’s always nice when the main character doesn’t…

    Oct 2, 2025
    Book Review, Graphic Novel/Comic
    book blogger, Book Review, Books, comics, eARCs, gifted review, graphic novels, Hawkmoon The Black Jewel, Kieron Gillen, Lenore Time War, Michael Moorcock Le Gris, Reading, Roman Dirge, The Power Fantasy, titan comics
  • Before Your Memory Fades

    Before Your Memory Fades

    From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula’s time-traveling offer.  –StoryGraph MY REVIEW I think the second book is my favorite so far, I still have two more to…

    Sep 30, 2025
    Book Review
    Before the Coffee Gets Cold, before your memory fades, book blogger, Book Review, Books, Cozy Read, emotional, grief, Reading, Tales from the Cafe, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • Mini Comic Reviews!

    Mini Comic Reviews!

    Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture’s greatest hero: THE DOMAIN! But his sons Miles and David have a complicated relationship with both the creation and their creator. Can they convince their dad to fight for their family’s legacy? –StoryGraph I loved the name, I did think that this meant…

    Sep 25, 2025
    Book Review, Graphic Novel/Comic
    9/11, Art Spiegelman, book blogger, Book Review, Books, Chip Zdarksky, comics, eARC, graphic novels, In the Shadow of No Towers, Never Been Deader, Public Domain, Reading, titan comics, Tommy Devoid
  • Showstopper eARC Review

    Showstopper eARC Review

    This summer’s production is to die for.  The Ghostlight Youth Theater Camp isn’t the best program in the world, but to Faye, it’s home. — Even when the drama turns deadly, Faye remains determined to make this the best production the Ghostlight has ever seen. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW I grew…

    Sep 23, 2025
    Book Review
    book blogger, book list, Book Review, Books, eARC, Lily Anderson, netgalley, october tbr, Reading, september release, ShowStopper, Theatre mystery, whodunit, ya horror, YA Mystery
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