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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: , , , |

Black Mouth

Confronting the Childhood Boogeyman Author: Ronald Malfi Jamie Warren’s life is filled with wreckage: the effects of his long alcoholism, his estrangement from family, and a hometown that harbors a special hate for him. It is altogether too much, and just as he is starting to recover, a tragedy calls him back home. Back to his trusting, disabled brother, now alone, who needs him. Back to his childhood friends. Back to the consequences of what they did one summer. Black Mouth is compared to Stephen King’s classic It, and there are some surface similarities, from the weirdness of the supernatural menace [...]

2023-02-07T20:14:27-07:00February 7th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Benjamin’s Parasite

The Enemy Inside You Author: Jeff Strand Benjamin has a problem. At first it started with candy bars. Several hundred a day to be exact. And then, well, let’s just say his desire for his wife has grown a bit extreme and far too kinky. But there are other things too that are more disturbing than all this. Benjamin is changing. Benjamin is losing control, and it’s all thanks to a little buddy escaped from a laboratory that is pulling the strings, calling the shots, and yeah, kind of killing its host. Benjamin is not having a good time. And it’s [...]

2023-02-04T16:18:09-07:00February 4th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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