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So, the year is winding down as quickly as the decade. Yikes! This is always a good time to look back at the Goals List I posted at the beginning of the year. There were a bunch of writing and reading goals on my list. As well as a few other things too.  So, here's how eve…

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand My rating: 2 of 5 stars I think this might be my last Christmassy read for this year. I'm glad that I read it right after finishing A Christmas Carol , because the worldbuilding for this story is adapted from this well-known clas…

MERRY CHRISTMAS!   I hope you all have an awesome, fun and safe festive season full of good food, great company and plenty of downtime.  Have a great one!

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well, this is the next Christmassy story I decided to read. It's a Dickens classic I'm very familiar with, but have never actually read. We all know how the story goes: Ebenezer Scrooge is a horrid, lonely old…

Hark! The Herald Angels Scream by Christopher Golden My rating: 3 of 5 stars This anthology continues my dark Christmassy reads binge. 😈🎄 ABSINTHE & ANGELS by Kelley Armstrong: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ava and Michael just want to spend a romantic, snowy Christmas together. Instead, th…

The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a book I found during my thrift store adventures with hubby. It's also my first PD James book, and it most certainly won't be my last. Here's what I thought about the four stories...…

Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom My rating: 5 of 5 stars It's December, so I wanted to read a Christmasy story. And you can't get more Christmas than the Yule Lord himself, Krampus. 😈 The funny thing about this book is that I actually started reading it last year, but af…

I Am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland My rating: 5 of 5 stars I want to start by saying that I love the simplicity of this cover. It's as sharp as the poems inside, and captures the subject matter within perfectly. I've been watching horror movies since I was ver…

Time Terror by Christopher Pike My rating: 5 of 5 stars With a cover like that, of course I was interested in checking this out. And I didn't even care about not reading any of the books that came before. Fifteen of them! LOL. Cindy, Sally, Adam, Watch and Bryce are friends …

The Fireman by Joe Hill My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a book I've been meaning to read for a while, and I'm really glad I finally did. Harper is a school nurse when the world starts burning. A mysterious spore everyone calls Dragonscale starts infecting people and civi…