This year I haven’t been restricting my horror/thriller reads to October. I’ve been kind of delighting in them all year.
But the good thing is—there are always more out there.
The Girl and the Ghost was on a list of “middle grade horror” that I looked up for Book Riot’s Read Harder challenge. So H and I are reading it out loud to each other.
The theme of my reading this year seems to be slaughterhouses. A Certain Hunger is my third book this year that heavily features the mechanism of slaughterhouses, and not necessarily how they apply to cattle. (See also: Of Cattle and Men, and Tender is the Flesh.)
I thought this book was just…a delight. I love an unreliable, unlikeable narrator. Also when I finished this book (on my Kindle) the “Other books you may like” screen that popped up was populated with—surprise!—other things I’ve read in the last two years. I guess I have a type.
Slewfoot was a “Staff library pick” that I thought, from reading the blurb and the library recommendation, was the inspiration for the movie The Witch, but I have since realized that while they share the same vibe, it’s not the same story. I just started it last night but I’m hooked.
Every October needs a haunted house story, so I just picked this one. Haven’t started it yet, but it’s described as “a cross between Parasite and Get Out” so I have a good feeling about this one.
That’s what I have planned for the moment—I’ll see if I get through more.
(Also fun story: last weekend I was going, “You guys want to watch a movie? Beetlejuice? The Addams Family?” And my kids said, “Those aren’t scary, we want to watch something SCARY.” So I said, “…You wanna watch Scream?” And then we watched Scream. They were not very scared by it, but gratified at getting to watch an R-rated movie.)
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