books Gifts My husband and I have very different gift giving habits. I love giving gifts. He HATES it. He panics. It's a lifestyle, I think. I try to be compassionate, but I don't really get it. But I do acknowledge that it's real. So this
cats It's Not About Space Recently, I was at my parents' house. They asked me what I was writing. "Well," I said, "the premise is that most people have left Earth..." "Where did they go?" my dad cut in. "Other planets. Colonies. That's not the
books The Crime Scene You could say my husband and I are in a reel-ationship. He didn't want to be, but eventually, he was worn down by my constant meme sending on Instagram. "You are poisoning my feed with cat videos," he told me after I'd sent him
books Reading Patterns I read a lot. Not like I've got a super famous BookTok feed or anything like that, but last year I read about ninety books. I loved Mexican Gothic. Historic, etherial horror involving a female protagonist, a weird mansion and sentient fungi, I mean what's not
books The Book Club Meeting I've been a part of various book clubs throughout my adult life. Some have been composed of close friends, some I've been the friend of the friend invite, and one, which I joined right out of undergrad, was a Meetup Book Club. I was twenty-two or
horror The Reading There is a cool independent bookstore by my house, and one night, they held a reading by several local authors. I recruited some people, and we attended. Now, it's important to know that while I love writing and reading, I don't love poetry. Not like I
horror Horror Books for People Who Don't Like Horror Don't like horror? I didn't either, until I realized I thought all the books I liked were magic realism, except that when I read an actual book labeled magic realism, I didn't like it. Turns out I like horror, whomp, whomp. Without further ado,
books Horror: Didn't know I Liked it So to start, I saw a post recently by Brian Asman, author of MAN, F*^K THIS HOUSE [https://a.co/d/4p1R6on], where he stated he was pleading with websites to hire people who like horror to write about horror. I thought that was interesting because I recently realized
