Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.
The original prompt was “Books I’ve Recently Added To My TBR” but really nothing has changed since I listed my anticipated 2016 reads.
Instead I have listed the books on my top priority to read.
Continue reading [Top Ten Tuesday] – #91 – Books Recently Shuffled On My TBR
Miscellaneous: Awards/Tags is the tagline to store random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. They may involve tags, awards, challenges, and other book blogging nonsense.
I don’t remember watching some of the older Pixar movies but alas I will still do this tag.
Thanks to Charley @ Books and Bakes for tagging me!
Book Title Bird Box (Standalone)
Author: Josh Malerman
Number of pages: 272
Synopsis:
Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.
Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it’s time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat–blindfolded–with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?
(re: Goodreads @ Bird Box by Josh Malerman)
– I have no sales pitch. If you enjoy ambiguity, uncertainty, and if the blurb interests you, then by all means read Bird Box
– Psychological horror set in Detroit that feeds on the unknown; there is gore but it’s not over the top
– The writing is succinct and can feel choppy; displayed through past-and-present narrative
– Limited growth in a majority of the characters as they were generally dragged along by the plot
This might be the shortest review I’ll go on record of having written.
thoughts and afterthoughts. 