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May 2024 Reads

7/6/2024

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​Sorry for the delay in posting! May was busy and June too! We moved out of our house, moved across the country, and bought a new house while living in a rental. So, not much time for reading. Only seven, with several re-listens.
 
A Letter to the Luminous Deep, by Sylvie Cathrall
A lovely epistolary set in an unusual world about a pair of shy would-be lovers, who have fallen in love without having met, and their siblings a year after their disappearance. While primarily told in letters and something like an email, the author also utilizes other ephemera like newspapers. I really enjoyed this story and look forward to reading it again before the second installment comes out.
 
Curveball, by Pablo Cartaya
Elena loves baseball…at least she thinks she does. It has always been her mother’s dream that she get to play baseball with the boys (not softball) and Elena has overworked herself to get there. Then she injures her knee and finds that having nothing to do all day long isn’t so bad. When she ventures out with her little brother to his LARPing group, she discovers that she might have a lot of interests outside baseball. Nice quick story about putting your needs over other people’s expectations.
 
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect, by Benjamin Stevenson
Re-listened to this to introduce my mom to the series on our cross-country road trip. She loved it as much as I did.
 
The Pirate Ghosts, by William Hope Hodgson
Vintage horror. Set on a ship sailing from San Francisco to somewhere with a new crew who knows nothing of its creepy past, they contend with the most haunted of a haunted ship. It has its moments, but would have been better had the villains not been named in the title. Took a lot of the scary out of it as I waited for them to appear.
 
Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
I haven’t read Koontz in years. This was one of his earlier books that is the favorite of a friend, so I thought I’d give it a go. Very much what I expected—1980s vintage timeless horror, men who are MEN, lots and lots of exposition. Could have been at least 100 pages shorter, which would have made it much scarier.
 
The Mindful Freak-Out, by Eric Goodman
One of the books from the publisher I work for. Really good look at how to avoid having meltdowns, freak-outs, rage episodes with lots of great advice and practical exercises.
 
Chaos Terminal, by Mur Lafferty
Another re-listen. Love this world. 
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