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Oasis

"The desert . . . . it’ll devour you whole if you display any sign of weakness." Author: Katya De Becerra While I was reading Oasis, Trav and I were housebound by the Snowcrete, so a book set in a lovely hot desert with supernatural overtones sounded like the perfect way to break the ice and free me to adventure, if only in my mind. It starts, as these things inevitably do, with a band of young friends, freshly graduated from high school and looking for their last hurrah before going off to separate colleges. Alif is our main character. Her [...]

Frances Carden2026-04-09T17:50:16-07:00April 9th, 2026|Tags: book of the month, book review, botm, fantasy, legend, read, reading, ya|

Nature of the Beast, The

"Maybe that’s what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can.” Author: Louise Penny We’re back in cozy, unmapped, hard-to-find, isolated Three Pines where murder, shenanigans, intrigue, complicated pasts, and really bad poetry are brewing into another storm of misadventure, fake identities, and ulterior motives. This time, evil from the outer world is once again puncturing the peace and sanctity of this little town, revealing dark pasts and sinister motives. It starts when an imaginative nine-year-old boy, Laurent Lepage, claims he found a giant monster gun in the woods. The next day, he is discovered, murdered. Clearly, [...]

Frances Carden2026-04-08T18:09:39-07:00April 8th, 2026|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, Gamache, Louise Penny, mystery, read, reading|

Spread Me

The Thing Reimagined - With a Disturbing Erotic Twist Author: Sarah Gailey Have you ever watched John Carpenter’s The Thing and wondered: what would this story be like if the alien was really, really horny? Well . . . apparently Sarah Gailey did . . . and Spread Me (double entendre evident) transforms the dark story of a people-replicating being into an erotic body-horror nightmare. Spread Me centers around Kinsey, who leads a remote research outpost in the desert where her team researches the cryptobiotic soil crust before it’s all destroyed by Big Evil Company. This is a very isolated post [...]

Frances Carden2026-04-06T19:33:47-07:00April 6th, 2026|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|