What I’ve Been Reading

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Book Trio
Swamplandia!, Karen Russell; Twilight #18 Watery Grave, Joseph Trainor; Codename: Sailor V, Vol. 1, Naoko Takeuchi

I read Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves a few months ago and I’d been meaning to read Swamplandia! ever since. It took me a little while to get into it- the chapters which between the POV of two different characters and I didn’t really like one of them at first, but it definitely grew on me. This book is basically amazing and you should definitely read it.

Before there was Twilight, there was TWILIGHT: WHERE DARKNESS BEGINS… When I was a kid in the 80s, my sister had a bunch of these cheesy YA horror novels and I read them all. I recently remembered them and on a crazy whim I ordered one, Watery Grave, a total gem of literature. It was just as terrible and wonderful as I remembered, and I particularly like the ending where SPOILER ALERT the female protagonist saves her injured boyfriend by blowing the monster’s head off with a shotgun. There are lots of other books in this series and I kind of want them all, so if you are looking for a gift for me you wouldn’t go wrong with a bunch of these. I’m particular keen on getting Nightmare Lake, Spirits and Spells and The Initiation.

In case you live under a rock or are for some reason not obsessed with Sailor Moon, then you know that all the original manga are being rereleased with a new, more accurate English translation. I preordered the first two, Codename: Sailor V Volume 1 and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Volume 1 and they came on Friday night. It took me a little while to get used to the right-to-left reading, but I have no complaints about this and look forward to getting the rest of the series.

a full list of all this year’s books can always be found here, and as always, book links are usually to Amazon, and clicking on them might earn me a nickel.

7 Replies to “What I’ve Been Reading”

  1. I am suffering from mass jelis caused by the fact that you have Watery Grave and I currently have no Twilight books. The Initiation was the best. I will have to one-up you by finally remembering the name of that book with the alien spiders that used scent to convey emotion.

    Dammit! What was that book called???!!!

    1. I think Zoe figured it out actually, YEARS ago. And the book that came before it was called The Watchers of Space.

      I was trying to explain Nightmares to Taylor a few weeks ago and he just made this face at me O_______o

  2. Ron made that face too … He seems to think that reading that book would have some sort of weird negative influence on Taran. On Taran. The boy who secretly watched Shawn of the Dead and laughed hysterically the whole way through.

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