Lovely bookish mail this afternoon before a nice blustery, stormy evening happens upon us here in the South. Makes for perfect reading weather, you know, if the power doesn’t go out.
Two signed goodies from my buddy @mphicks79, which you can find my🌟🌟🌟🌟 reviews of both on my blog (link in bio). Still can’t get over the beautiful @kealanpatrick covers. Oh me, oh my.
Another gorgeous ARC in the form of Blake Crouch’s newest, Recursion. Not sure if any of you read his last book, Dark Matter, but it is UHmazing. Very much looking forward to this one (hits shelves in June).
Lastly, an ARC Dust Devils by @jonathan.janz from @flametreepress. This man is going to have to come to AL for a book signing because I’m pretty close to having his entire library... yes, Jonathan. Book Tour. Alabama. I’ll buy you dinner and get you some new boots.
Thanks to @orbitbooks_us and @hachettebooks for a finished copy of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, along with the promotional postcards (doggo not included).
My 🌟🌟🌟🌟review will be up on the blog around lunchtime today.
This was a very gripping novel, mostly because dogs, but moreover because of the journey our young protagonist takes in a post-apoc world he knows so little about. Fantastic read for dog lovers everywhere because of the bond we share with our 4-legged fur babies, but perfect for fans of The Girl With All the Gifts.
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When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back in this fiercely compelling tale of survival, courage, and hope. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.
My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football.
My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs.
Then the thief came.
There may be no law left except what you make of it. But if you steal my dog, you can at least expect me to come after you.
Because if we aren't loyal to the things we love, what's the point?
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This weekend has been a little crazy, what with a tornado touching down about 1 mile from our home at 4:00am this morning...
But I digress.
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I haven’t done one of these #meetthebookstagrammer dealios so I thought I’d take a stab at it.
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My name is David and I live in central Alabama. I’m married to a blonde bombshell named Rachel and have 3 dogs (including this wannabe shark) and 1 cat. I work 2 jobs: one full-time in telecom and a second part-time as a real estate agent.
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I began reviewing books about 3 or so years ago when I was on the indie scene. @nickcolebooks and @author_sansbury are a couple of the fantastic authors that inspired me to do so after finding their books absolutely thrilling. I have since started the blog FanFiAddict.com (Oct 2017) and began my bookstagram at the end of 2018.
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As you can probably tell by my feed, I enjoy just about every genre out there, but I try to keep my focus narrowed down to fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. There are just so many books and not enough to get them all read, let alone reviewed.
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Whelp, that’s a little bit about me. I would love to know more about some of you guys. On another note, and this doesn’t mean you have to do one of these, but I want to give shoutouts to @grimdark_dad, @the_infinite_book_dragon, @bookish_mili, and @petrikleo for being some of the coolest bookish people I’ve gotten to share my love of books with since joining IG (and Petrik a little beforehand through blogging). You guys are the best!
Some snazzy (and absolutely surprising) bookmail today from @flatiron_books. I’ve been seeing this title pop up around social media here lately and it sounds like an amazingly epic journey across an alternate US. Also, this ARC is freaking wild 😂. Anyone else have this on their TBR?
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Reed King’s amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.
In Reed King’s wildly imaginative and possibly prescient debut, the United States has dissolved in the wake of environmental disasters and the catastrophic policies of its final president.
It is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory worker in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), has no grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday.
But when Truckee is thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight he is tapped by the President for a sensitive political mission: to deliver a talking goat across the continent. The fate of the world depends upon it.
The problem is—Truckee’s not sure it’s worth it.
Joined on the road by an android who wants to be human and a former convict lobotomized in Texas, Truckee will navigate an environmentally depleted and lawless continent with devastating—and hilarious—parallels to our own, dodging body pickers and Elvis-worshippers and logo girls, body subbers, and VR addicts.
Elvis-willing, he may even lose his virginity.
FKA USA is the epic novel we’ve all been waiting for about the American end of times, with its unavoidable sense of being on the wrong end of the roller coaster ride. It is a masterwork of ambition, humor, and satire with the power to make us cry, despair, and laugh out loud all at once. It is a tour de force unlike anything else you will read this year.
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