{Sunday Post} — The Babysitter, Lies He Told Me, and Puppet on a Chain

What Am I Reading? 

My reading could have been more active. I will try my best to finish Fredia McFadden's The Boyfriend tomorrow morning; then, I can move on to Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus, a Hard Crime Case thriller on Kindle for several years. My plan is to get read and post a review on Halloween.

Song of the Week

Recently Reviewed

Movies

Twisters

★★★★✰

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

★★★★★

Books

The Hitchcock Hotel

★★★★✰

Dying Inside

★★★★★

Hunterlore

★★★★✰

Awaken the Dawn

★★★★✰

Deathstalker

★★★★★

Barbaric: Born in Blood

★★★★★

What's in the Mailbox?

There were lots of books in the mail since my last Sunday Post: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum by Una McCormack (I mentioned this title on the Oct. 12th post but forgot to take a photo.), Lies He Told Me by James Patters and David Ellis, The Queen by Nick Cutter (pictured below), Hiding Menegle by Betina Anton (pictured below), and the graphic novels Barbaric: Born in Blood and Deathstalker: The Damned Blood. 

Also, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment sent me Twisters on 4K UHD.

What's New on the Bookshelf?

I thought I was receiving an ARC of In Too Deep by Lee Child and Andrew Child, but I've never received anything; therefore, I bought the only copy I could find in stores. Hopefully, the publisher doesn't send a copy, but if they do, I'll run a giveaway or something.

I already have quite a collection of Western books, and I added three more: A Threat of Violence, The Edge of Nowhere, and The Last Wagon Train by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone (or whomever the ghostwriters were).

Recent pick-ups from the previous two weeks include Murder Island by James Patterson and Brian Sitts, The Waiting by Michael Connelly, The Missing by Lisa Childs, and The Babysitter by Nancy Bush.

I picked up two books at Dollar Tree: The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young and The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda. The latter is a replacement copy for a worn-out book I found at a thrift store.

Two weeks ago, I picked up Girls Only! Volume Two by Beverly Lewis, The Swarm by Arthur Herzog, and Nightwing by Martin Cruz Smith at the thrift store. The Girls Only! book might be the oddball title of the bunch. I used to read many Amish romances, and after several book purging, Beverly Lewis's books were the only ones I kept from the genre. Girls Only! isn't an Amish title, but I didn't have it in my collection, and now I do.

Last week, I picked up one ten-cent paperback while thrifting: Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean.

New eBook titles on my Kindle are The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers, Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda, A Lamb to the Slaughter by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, Stephen King: His Life, Work, and Influences (Young Readers' Edition) by Ben Vincent, More Stories from the Twilight Zone edited by Carol Serling, and Final Girls by Riley Sager.