The Book Blabberer

Rating: 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️ First Response: Well, I HAVE to read the rest of them now! One Sentence Summary: Pocket of Dog-Snogging (a fool) has washed up on the shores of Athens just in time to get mixed up in the events of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream -- but someone has killed Robin Goodfellow (i.e., Puck) and Pocket has to figure out who did it! Tell Me More: Apparently, this is the THIRD in a series of Christopher Moore novels based on Shakespeare plays. Libby didn

Rating: 🦴🦴🦴🦴 First Response: This book isn't really about Martha. It's about her story . It's a story about the story of Martha. One Sentence Summary: Ambrose Tree goes to Drogo Hall at the request of his uncle, and there hears the story of "Cripplegate Giant" Harry Peake, and his daughter Martha. Tell Me More: This book wasn't as affecting as yesterday's Asylum , which is why it's getting 4 'stars' instead of 5. It was still beautifully written, but rather heady-- after

I listened to the audiobook read by Sir Ian McKellen. It was pretty good. 😊 Rating: 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨 First Response: I wanted a haunted asylum and got a haunted soul instead. One Sentence Summary: Stella Raphael decides to shake up her boring marriage by having an affair with one of the patients at the MAXIMUM SECURITY ASYLUM FOR THE CRIMINALLY INSANE where her husband works. Tell Me More: This book has been on my TBR list forever. I think I first looked it up back in 2014-2015-i

Rating: 🍎🍎🍎.5 First Response: This book was good, but not for me. It was a little too YA for my taste. One Sentence Summary: Ava Thorne is adjusting to the loss of everything he holds dear… and a town ghost seems to be killing kids. Tell Me More: Ok, lissen: I listened to this book on audiobook, and it made almost no impression on my brain; which is weird because I listen to almost all my books on audiobook now, and most of them leave some sort of residue; but this one jus

Rating: 🧖🏻‍♂️🧖🏻‍♂️🧖🏻‍♂️🧖🏻‍♂️ First Response: I don't usually go in for thrillers, but this one was pretty fun. And unexpectedly political. One Sentence Summary: Oliver makes one bad decision, which leads to a web of diabolical lies, a stalker, and unfortunate revelations about the everything he loves. Tell Me More: This one was a step outside my comfort zone. I don't usually go for thrillers. Mysteries, yes! I love me an Agatha Christie or a Ruth Ware. Personally, I f

Rating: 🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️ First Response: Thomás is FABULOUS 💅🏻 One Sentence Summary: Women are dying of apparent suicides, but there's a pattern to the deaths, which leads Harry Dresden to hunt down a serial killer. Tell Me More: I noted that the tone of The Dresden Files had shifted in my review of Proven Guilty ; and in this book, that fruits of that shift are coming to bear. White Night is only nominally a detective novel in the vein of Storm Front , G

This review is going to be a little bit different. No rating. No pithy reactions or summaries. This book is different from my usual reading list, and I read it for different reasons. Therefore, it needs a different kind of review. I picked up Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus after talking with a friend about what we were currently reading. He had just finished this book for a small group he's in at our church. When he told me the synopsis-- a Muslim man explores and ultimately c

Thank God we’re escaped the uncanny valley. Rating: 🍿🍿🍿🍿.75 First Response: The tone of this one was different. I’m not sure I liked it. One Sentence Summary: Harry’s given the heads-up that black magic is coming to Chicago— and when monsters start popping up at the local horror movie convention, he jumps on the case. Tell Me More: There’s been a shift in the Dresden-verse. Usually The Dresden Files are fun, even silly mystery/ adventure novels. Harry Dresden is a wisecra

My version didn't have the white text present on this cover, but I haven't for the life of me been able to find my cover anywhere. Rating: 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️ First Response: I actually like this one. This is my second Faulkner, and while I wasn’t wild about the first one, this one was pretty good. One Sentence Summary: The Compson family remembers and rebels over Easter weekend in 1928. Tell Me More: I’ve only read one other Faulkner novel ( As I Lay Dying ),

I love this cover. Strong Nosferatu vibes. Rating: ➿➿➿➿➿ First Response: This book is deliciously gothic. One Sentence Summary: Immortal vampire Louis tells a curious 'boy' the story of his travels with Claudia-- the five year old girl he accidentally turned into a vampire. Tell Me More: This book surprised me. Interview with the Vampire is a surprisingly deep book. I was expecting a pulpy vampire adventure novel, but this book might be more adequately described as a medit

I still refuse to accept this CGI uncanny valley abomination as my Harry. Rating: 💀💀💀💀💀 Initial Response: POLKA WILL NEVER DIE! One Sentence Summary: Harry is blackmailed into locating the grimoire of a particularly notorious necromancer-- unfortunately, the necromancers disciples are also looking for it. Tell Me More: This is the best one yet! Every book in the Dresden Files has gotten 5 emojis-of-choice, but I wish I could give this one even more. The stakes go up! Th

What even IS this cover? If that's a real person, I'm sorry, but that's some uncanny valley shit right there. That's not my Harry. I refuse. Rating: 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 First Response: This book has no spice. I'm shocked, considering it's about porn. One Sentence Summary: Someone is trying to magically sabotage an... <ahem> ... adult film, and the producers what Harry to figure out who. Tell Me More: I'm pretty sure this is the one with Vampires, but it's kinda hard to tell. Consideri

I could not find this cover anywhere for the life of me, so I just screenshotted it from the audiobook I was using. It looks nothing like any of the covers that show up if you Google this book. Rating: 👘👘👘👘👘 (This is the closest emoji I could find to a shroud. Bite me.) First Response: MICHAEL IS BACK AND HE’S A BADASS! Also his kids are adorable and Charity is terrifying😱. One Sentence Summary: Harry Dresden has a lot on his hands— a duel with a vampire, the mutilation

I think we need to have a conversation about cover art, because these covers are fire, but a little sexist. The new ones all look the same though, cause they're just Harry. Rating: 🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻 First Response: I need Michael and Morgan to duel. One Sentence Summary: Under heat for kicking off a war between the White Council of Wizards and the Red Court of Vampires, Harry is “asked” to investigate a supposedly accidental death that might have major ramifications for th

They just keep getting better. Rating: 👻👻👻👻👻 First Response: Who you gonna call? HARRY DRESDEN! One Sentence Summary: Chicago's paranormal denizens have been particularly troublesome of late; and Harry Dresden is determined to find out why. Tell Me More: I need to start this review by talking about Stranger Things . When season 1 of Stranger Things came out, I thought it was fantastic. I loved every second of it; and even thought that the ending, with it's unresolved pl

The cover is beautiful, but I didn't love the book... Rating: 📿📿 Initial Response: This book wants to be several things, and in the end doesn't do any of them particularly well. One Sentence Summary: An enslaved young woman in antebellum Alabama comes to terms with her enslaved existence while completing tasks for her sister's ghost. Tell Me More: For most of this book, I wavered between 3 and 4 'stars,' but by the time I got to the end, I decided that the issues I thought

I listened to the audiobook of this one. It was pretty good-- had a full cast and everything! This is the first re-read I'm featuring on my blog, and I'm two days overdue. Usually I pound these out the day I finish the book, but I've been at a bit of a loss as to the best way to structure these. I don't want to do my usual rating and review, because if I'm re-reading a book it's already got 4 or 5 stars (or whatever other emoji I chose to scale it with 😬). So what am I to do

Rating: 🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰 First Response: I don’t think I’m a Tingler yet, but I’m open to the possibility. One Sentence Summary: What if Death...

Ratings: Storm Front:🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️ Fool Moon: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Initial Reaction: I HAVE FOUND MY NEW OBSESSION! One Sentence Summary: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a hardboiled detective -- I mean, wizard-- who investigates crimes that are just a little too... unusual for the normal police force. Tell Me More: When I was but a wee lad, I discovered a book called The Falcon's Malteser by Anthony Horowitz (of Alex Rider fame). It was the first of the Diamond Brothers'

Rating: ⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️ Initial Reaction: Well, I guess I really do like slashers. One Sentence Summary: Haunted by the death of her fiancé,...