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Bird Box

Our Minds Have Ceilings Author: Josh Malerman Malorie’s world is collapsing. She is pregnant and single, living with her sister, trying to piece together the next steps. She doesn’t have time for the weird news stories, the sweeping paranoia, the plague of people going mad, becoming homicidal. She doesn’t have time for the apocalypse, until it comes to her door, and she is left alone, pregnant, and terrified. There is only one common thread, one thing everyone can agree on. Before the madness overtakes you . . . you see something. No one knows what that something is, but it seems [...]

2024-12-24T16:08:49-07:00December 24th, 2024|Tags: , , , |

Sanatorium, The

Suspicion, Isolation, and Blatant Stupidity Author: Sarah Pearse Before becoming a prestigious, ultra-modern, isolated mountain hotel, Le Sommet was the final destination for the insane. There are still vestiges of this former life, including the carefully displayed medical instruments in glass cases that ominously link the building’s past and present. But the clientele are paying big bucks, so everything must be ok, right? Elin is a detective on leave, suffering from PTSD. She’s traveled with her long-time boyfriend, Will, to Le Sommet for her estranged brother’s engagement. But this trip is about answers, not fixing family problems. Elin’s younger brother died [...]

2024-12-23T13:01:22-07:00December 23rd, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , |

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

The Scent of Young Womanhood Author: Patrick Suskind Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born into filth, unwanted. His mother was executed for attempting to kill him. Grenouille was passed from one church to another, one nurse to another, but everyone found something about him, even as a child, that was unsettling, wrong. The infant had no smell, and this was, they felt, a harbinger of something altogether inhuman. Something other and twisted. They were not wrong. While Grenouille has no scent of his own, he has a powerful gift. He can decipher and catalog odors in a way that no other can. Odors [...]

2024-12-02T14:08:48-07:00December 2nd, 2024|Tags: , , , |
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