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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…

The Brilliant Dr. Wogan by R.A. Montgomery My rating: 5 of 5 stars I used to love reading Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was a kid. I borrowed them from the school library and from the public library. I couldn't get enough! So it was awesome to find a few during ou…

Welcome To Camp Slither by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars During our thrift store adventures, we've been lucky enough to find a bunch of Goosebumps books, and this one is part of the Horrorland collection. I used to read Goosebumps to my daughter when she was in prima…

Grandma Mazur is a widow . . . again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen . . . well, the waiting's over.  It's a sad day, but if she can'…

Everyone but Sophia and Cyrus were going to die. They were all goners well before they knew it. And they certainly thought whatever was happening, they were helping others and saving the world doing it. Samantha was only fourteen and looking for what every fourteen-year-old looks fo…

That's right. Today, I validated NEON :  Well, this year was a little different.  There was no actual validation necessary. The website was updated so I collected my WINNER badges and downloaded my certificate. Yay. 😁 Either way, as I mentioned the other day, …

Hey! How's everyone? Well, the third week of NaNoWriMo  has only just begun but since I finished my WIP today, I thought I'd blog about it. That's right! The first draft of NEON is finished, and I'm SO excited. 😁🎉 This is the 13th time I've won NaNoWriMo!  Y…

Well, the second week of NaNoWriMo  is done, and I'm happy to report that I added plenty of words. What about you? How's your word count going? I actually had a great week. Got a lot done and also slowed down the pace a bit. The only thing that's been missing from my sc…