November, 2025
November 3rd, 2025, 5:41 p.m. - I drove to a library branch 25 minutes away, got lost on the way home, and somehow ended up in D.C. for THIS?
44. Hot Wax (M.L. Rio)
Up next: Keep This for Me (Jennifer Fawcett) and King Sorrow (Joe Hill) – I am fully invested in the summon-a-dragon-to-commit-murder-for-you book
November 11th, 2025, 5:24 p.m. - I will probably have forgotten about this by the end of the year, too
45. Keep This for Me (Jennifer Fawcett)
Up next: Kill Your Darlings (Peter Swanson) and King Sorrow (Joe Hill) – ahhhhh, that whole Allie section on the plane was amazing
November 19th, 2025, 6:39 p.m. - Didn't expect this to be the kind of book to have me saying, "Ewwww" out loud at one point
46. Kill Your Darlings (Peter Swanson)
Up next: Happy People Don't Live Here (Amber Sparks) and King Sorrow (Joe Hill) – trying to reserve judgment on the troll hunt
November 24th, 2025, 8:01 p.m. - It should be illegal for a writer not to use quotation marks in their dialogue
47. Happy People Don't Live Here (Amber Sparks)
Up next: The Midnight Knock (John Fram) and King Sorrow (Joe Hill) – I actually had to take a break after what happened in the cave. I was, as the kids would say, shook
I will have forgotten about this by the end of the year.
Nothing happens, and then there's a twist that I'd predicted 50 pages earlier. Next!
Slow at points but a compelling story with developments I didn't see coming. It's hard to ask for more.
I was into the first half, but then it fell apart for me. I ended up just not caring what happened.