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From a Buick 8

A Car, A Mystery, A Dark Legacy Author: Stephen King An odd man brings an old car into a gas station, asks for a fill-up, and disappears. The car sits there with a new tank of gas and no owner until the members of Troop D from the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania arrive to impound it. What they discover is unutterable, horrible, beautiful, and inexplicable, all in one. A mystery that will keep on taking for decades. The car – a beautiful Buick 8 – isn’t quite right. It’s a near perfect mimic of a car, but there [...]

2023-02-13T20:50:54-07:00February 13th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

Secrets in the Blood Author: Lisa Unger I’m going to be honest. I bought this book for its amazing title. Something about it is just sonorous, hinting at dark woods, buried secrets, never-ending nights of fear and betrayal. That’s just a horror hound / mystery lovers insidious dream, all pulled together in a nice binding. The title, however, is the best part of the book, and the theme of bickering couples stranded in the woods soon falls prey to stereotypes, messy storytelling, and unlikable characters. Oh, and you’re not even in the cabin or the Georgia woods that much either. It [...]

2023-02-11T20:04:00-07:00February 11th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Midnight Library, The

Second Chances And Supernatural Libraries Author: Matt Haig Nora Seed is ready to die. There is nothing left but to take too many pills, lie down in her lonely apartment, die, and be forgotten. So, when Nora awakens from her death sleep to find herself alone in a giant library, she is perplexed. In this unstable library with its rows after rows of green books, she has  a final chance to see the ramifications of every decision, the endless different lives that could have been, that unspool from small and large changes. If she likes one of these lives, she [...]

2023-02-11T13:06:02-07:00February 11th, 2023|Tags: , , , |
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