
It’s definitely what is on the inside that counts.
Let’s start out with a hello and how are you today? I know you can’t answer me without looking like a loon talking at their computer, but I can always appreciate a fellow eccentric. This is a space all things books. From reading them from a different perspective, fantastic characters, and of course who doesn’t love a good top ten. A good book is like a TARDIS, bigger on the inside. Bound between carboard and an enticing cover is an entire world begging to be discovered. From my own bookshelf, and hopefully to yours, let us embark on a literary escape from reality to lands where ghosts and killers chase us, dragons soar in the sky, alien invasions, and futures to avoid, let us jump in.
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After a year and a half hiatus and some serious life changes, Laura is back Baby! And she is writing up a storm. (Yes, I wrote about myself in third person.)
Books are everywhere. Stories waiting for consumption. But why do we love to read them so much in the first place? And why is reading so important…
With television and movies still on hold, about time to say a little something to those writers on the picket line.
It is never to late to get back on that saddle and chase after what it is that you truly want from life.
Fresh off the Shelf
Written in 1938, Rebecca is a gothic classic about a young woman who marries the older widower, Maxim de Winter, owner of the renowned Manderley estate. Everything is going wonderfully until they come home to Manderley, and the memory of a dead wife still lingers in the walls, haunting the new Mrs. de Winter at every moment.
He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray - for a landmark study to understand their motives. To get inside their minds. He is Special Agent John Douglas, the model for law enforcement legend Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris's thrillers Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, and the man who ushered in a new age in behavorial science and criminal profiling. Recently retired after twenty-five years of service, John Douglas can finally tell his unique and compelling story.
*Summary from Goodreads
Hundreds of years in the future, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour.
Eddie Russett is an above-average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.
For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey...
*Summary from Goodreads
When charting out on an adventure to a remote deserted island in search of adventure, Lux and her cohorts are going soon learn the dangers of being reckless
Rose Daniels has finally woken up to life with Norman Daniels after seeing one drop of blood on the bed from a nose bleed the night before, Rose finally understands that it is now or never, and life and death.
“Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.
Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?”
*Audible Summary of Novel
No-no Boy follows the return of Ichiro, a Japanese-American who has returned from serving a prison sentence for refusing to serve in the military during WWII. Asking where he belongs, Ichiro tries to understand why he made the choices he made, as well as seeing his community attempting to heal.
Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. Single, child-free and still feeling cool, he reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women at single parents' groups, full of available (and grateful) mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice Guy. That's where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, he looks after his Mum and he's never even owned a pair of trainers. Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid, Marcus can help Will grow up and they can both start to act their age.
*Taken from Goodreads
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mother urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
*Taken from back of the book
In 1977, Claire Lake Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect-a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crime scenes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.
Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true-crime website, the Book of Cold Cases-a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea’s surprise, Beth says yes.
They meet regularly at Beth’s mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. Items move when she’s not looking, and she could swear she’s seen a girl outside the window. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn’t right. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house?
*Taken from book jacket
Time to snuggle up in my favorite sweater, with a cup of tea and all the spooky vibes to write out some suspenful thirllers.