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What Am I Reading?

1-29-21 - I've been taking my sweet time reading the gothic romance Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, which I should have finished by whenever I publish this post on Sunday. Yes, I'll be writing a review for it. I don't know when I'm going the review, but there will be one.

My next read is The Umbrella Lady by V. C. Andrews - or otherwise known as the ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. I'm not going to go into details about my love-hate relationship with this author because I've talked about it enough already on this blog. I do like the cover art for The Umbrella Lady, and the synopsis is intriguing. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to like it.

On my Kindle, I'm currently reading the horror anthology titled, It Came From the Multiplex: 80's Midnight Chillers.

Recent Reviews

Middle School: Field Trip Fiasco

(Book Review)

Come Play

(Blu-ray Review)

Weeks: Book Two

(Book Review)

What's in the Mail?

1-29-21 - Jimmy Patterson Books (Little, Brown and Company) sent over a copy of the children's book Middle School: Field Trip Fiasco. I reviewed it earlier in the week.

During the last few weeks, I have received several movies. Some are for review purposes, and others I had ordered myself. Not pictured in the picture above is the kid-friendly horror flick Come Play, courtesy of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. I posted a review for it on Jan. 26th. You can find the links for it and Middle School: Field Trip Fiasco, under Recent Reviews in this post. The same studio also sent me the thriller Let Him Go starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane, and Wild Mountain Thyme starring Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, and Christopher Walken. I just received the latter title today, and I know very little about it, besides that the setting is in Ireland. I watched Let Him Go last night, and I liked it quite a bit. It's a rare movie that's better than the book.

(Update: 1-30-21 - I watched Wild Mountain Thyme and mostly enjoyed it. It's a romantic drama with a little bit of humor. It received mixed to negative reviews from mainstream critics upon its release in theaters back in December, which means nothing to me because the so-called critics are out of touch with reality.)

A while ago, I bought The Critters Collection Blu-ray at a Walmart store in a different county. I didn't notice until I got home that the second movie was missing from the set, and i n its place was a duplicate copy of the first film. I contacted the home video company Shout! Factory and they sent me a replacement disc for Critters 2: The Main Course.

While I was ordering new headphones on Amazon, I added to my cart To The Devil...a Daughter, the 1976 Hammer Film that was released to Blu-ray in 2019 from Shout! Factory (Scream Factory). I want to collect more Hammer Blu-ray, but they are a little pricey. This one was on sale, so I bought it.

I watched part of the horror film Marrowbone on television last year, which lead to me seeking out the Blu-ray. It's a creepy gothic film that focuses on characters rather than gore. Even if you're not into horror films, I recommend watching it.

What's New on the Bookshelf?

At some point during the month, I stopped by the local thrift store and picked up the paperbacks Origin by Dan Brown and Blasphemy by Douglas Preston. I found The Dysasters by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast a Dollar Tree store, and I have no clue why I got it. I used to have all the House of Night books, but I got rid of all of them last year. I also picked up The Hawkweed Legacy by Irena Brignull and Speakeasy by Alisa Smith for $1 each.

It should be no shock to anyone that I purchased two new James Patterson titles - The Russian (with co-author James O. Born), and Till Murder Do Us Part.

Also, not pictured in the above photo is Dracul by Dacre Stoker & J. D. Barker, which I picked up at Walmart a few days ago for $7.98. It's a prequel to the classic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, the great-granduncle of Dacre Stoker. I bought the book out of the blue while strolling down the book section at Walmart, which had nothing new besides one copy of this paperback. I didn't read the blurb until I got home, and oddly the plot sounds very familiar to me. The book was first published in 2018, so my first thought was that I had already read the book. I checked my Goodreads library and couldn't find it there. Then I searched my blog to see if I had reviewed it, and I found nothing. Deja Vu?