Everything's a bit, timey-wimey, I suppose.

In other words, it's been awhile and I'm forgetful.

So I will leave a list here of interesting things and then get back to you when I actually finish a book, k?

Well where to begin. Last I left you, I'd read The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki (and guess what prompted me to update this place again? That review got noticed and put on his FB page. What even. Do people still read this blog? Apparently so, listeners, apparently so.) and it was fantastic.

Since then, I have:

• Purchased Nightmarys (it looks quite nice on my shelf with Graylock and Stone Child) 
• Read White Cat and Red Glove by Holly Black. (if you haven't read them, do so now, because they're like my second favorite thing right now and both Red Glove and Black Heart the conclusion to the trilogy are on their way to my house as we speak. Beautiful con stories oh my goodness.) 
• Read Divergent by Veronica Roth (FANTASTIC book by the way, definitely recommend it. About a hundred pages from the end of the sequel, Insurgent. That'll be my next review here I expect.) 
• Gone to a library sale and procured many lovely smelling old books. Best thing ever right there, listeners. 
• I believe I read another book in there somewhere, but it's escaping me. This is why my blog dies, listeners. 
• Started listening to Welcome to Night Vale, That is why I'm calling you all listeners, because I'm currently obsessed and it's a beautiful podcast. It won't make sense. Just listen to it. K? 
• Read The Raven Boys at least twice, I believe. I'm on my sixth read through. 
• Written half of a novel. 
• Gone to writer's camp
• Gotten a year older. 
• Breathed. A lot. I did a fantastic amount of breathing since you last heard from me I just, you'll be really amazed with how much breathing I did. I'm amazing. 

So there's that. Once I get all of my reading material organized, this place shall live once more. Muahahaha.

Seriously though, check out those books I mentioned and Dan Poblocki's stuff while you're at it k? Because of reasons. 

The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki

The Nightmarys

Seventh-grader Timothy July and his new friend Abigail 

try to break a curse that is causing them and others to 

be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life. 

Genre: YA Horror 

Rating: ★★★★★

Wow. Wow wow wow wow wow. I like. I just want to sing about Dan Poblocki and his perfect little writings of chilling amazing forever. Remember The Ghost of Graylock? And how it was like the best ghost story ever? Nightmarys was just about on par with it. My favorite thing about Poblocki's writing so far is that his stuff is creepy. It's chilling and it sets you on edge. But it is nowhere near so horrifically terrifying that you lose sleep or whatever. He lets it shine out in all its brilliance without being overwhelming. Hat off to you, dude.

Also his characters are amazing. Call me whatever you want, but I'm more inclined to like a fifteen to twenty five age range of characters. Just something that's a personal preference or whatever. But Poblocki's MCs are all around middle-school age, and they're awesome. Neil in Graylock, Timothy and Abigail in Nightmarys. They're not surface-level, and while not incredibly deep, they're interesting and they feel real and they're just just just awesome. 

The story here in Nightmarys was stunning as well. So many beautiful twists and turns that you kind of see lurking, but not quite, and then slap you in the face anyways. The conclusion was beautiful too. Very very cool. 

All in all, this book is going on my list of I-need-this-on-my-shelf-okay-okay, and I am super duper excited to read The Stone Child and for August to come so I can get The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe.  Poblocki is one of my new favorite authors, I have just decided. 

#No I'm not going to apologize for this being late. #I do what I want.

The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki

I just finished this book minutes ago, and am now on cool down. This book is exquisite and anybody who likes ghost stories should read it. Never have I read a more satisfying end to a ghost story than I did twenty minutes ago.

 The Ghost of Graylock

Dan Poblocki

Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Graylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital that is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.



I ought to find a list of official genres and sub-genres. This book is a Juvenile Fiction Ghost Story, I guess. And it's scary.

Rating:☆☆☆☆☆

This book is absolutely stunning. I loved the characters, even if Bree was inconsistent (apparently I have issues with inconsistencies more than anything else.)  and the settings were amazing. Graylock is so chilling and Hedston is the picture of...Hedston.

My favorite part was definitely the ending, even though all of it was beautiful. And the climax was scary and I read it sitting in a windowsill which was a bad idea and it totally freaked me out and it was awesome. I'm sort of like, Why was this in the kids section, I don't get scared and it scared me. But it was amazing so.

It's small and short and it took me longer to read than it should (I'm a bad person. Shunshunshun.) and it was lovely. I keep saying that.

I have no negative comments about this book.

Go read it.

And now that life is back to being normal, I have to figure out what to read next. I'd ask for suggestions if I'd actually take you people at your word and not read whatever the heck I wanted. But I will read whatever the heck I want, so it's not worth it. (And I doubt that many people are actually reading, so.)

Anyways. Peace out.