Month: December 2025

WWW Wednesday – December 17, 2025

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WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

At the moment, I’m about 40 pages into The Spirit by Thomas Page, a 1977 horror novel recently republished by Valancourt Books and featured in Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix. So far, it has an old-fashioned feel in how it throws us into the premise without much buildup. I don’t know how common this truly was, but for what it’s worth, this is what I was expecting. We’re given some background on the characters, but otherwise it dives right into our one protagonist, “The Indian”, beginning his vision quest and the other, a hunter named Raymond Jason, already in the wilderness with three other men, their encounter with Bigfoot imminent. I’m not very far in so I’m reserving my judgement, but I feel I could take it or leave it so far, as I don’t feel particularly hooked by any of the characters or their respective pursuits of the creature.

Recently Finished

Last week I said I wanted to read another graphic novel but hadn’t settled on one. Since then, I came across Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown at the library, a biographical graphic novel about the professional wrestler Andre the Giant. Though I didn’t want to buy it, it had been passively on my radar for a while, so it was a little exciting to come across it at the library. At first, I found it a little unfortunate that it didn’t look to be going into that much depth, a limitation of the medium perhaps, but my attitude turned around by the end. While by no means as exhaustive as biographical prose, it did a great job of creating a narrative portrait of his entire life, highlighting where he came from, the highs and lows of his career, the almost mythical tales from his life and career on the road, and the daily struggles he endured due to his condition, despite how much it contributed to his fame.

Reading Next

Nothing for the rest of the year! I’m planning for The Spirit to be my last read of 2025. I need a little break.

New Books & Novel Discoveries (November 2025)

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I don’t know why, but November went by like it was nothing, in stark contrast to an October that felt especially long—probably in part because of how many books I wound up reading. I tried to show a little more restraint this month, especially as the holiday started to loom on the horizon, but I found myself tempted more than once into buying myself some brand new books. The impulses won.

Still, it was a fairly modest month. Let’s see what I did pick up.Read More »

WWW Wednesday – December 10, 2025

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WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

At the moment, I’m about 100 pages into reading Why I Love Horror, edited by Becky Siegel Spratford, an anthology of essays from different horror authors about horror literature. I’m enjoying it well so far, though they’ve been fairly similar in theme so far, talking about life experiences growing up as well as media influences that turned them on to horror. It’s interesting enough, but I’d appreciate a shift. Fortunately, Spratford has been an exemplary editor on this book so far, with each essay having an introduction by her to prime the reader on the author and recommend a book of theirs to start with as well as another author with similar work. In these little prefaces she has mentioned whether an essay will continue with similar themes and has already primed me to expect a shift in the essays that will follow.

Recently Finished

Last week I read through House of Women by Sophie Goldstein, a graphic novel apparently loosely based on the 1947 film Black Narcissus. It follows a group of nuns sent by a Galactic Empire to a faraway jungle world with the task of civilizing the native population of alien beings. I enjoyed it well enough, having been drawn to the high-contrast visual style, which I especially liked throughout, but overall I found the story to be fairly straightforward and predictable, though not poorly told. To be honest, the story as it unfolds was a good idea, I just think it was too short. The plot could have been expanded more so, the characters given more depth. Still, I’m glad I read it.

Reading Next

Though I want to read two more books this month to round out my reading count this year to 50 books, I only have one definitively lined up to read this month. That book is The Spirit by Thomas Page, a vintage horror novel recently republished by Valancourt Books about a pair of hunters trying to kill Bigfoot. Though it seems to be more of a creature feature, I’m reading this as a winter ghost story, as recommended by the bookseller I purchased it from. Beyond this, I’m hoping to find another graphic novel to read, but I haven’t settled on one yet.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.

WWW Wednesday – December 3, 2025

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WWW Wednesday is a weekly book meme run by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Check out her post and others over on her blog!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently Reading

Nothing! I’m between books.

Recently Finished

Over the last couple of weeks I read through Year of the Griffin by Dianna Wynne Jones, the sequel novel to Dark Lord of Derkholm. I didn’t end up writing a WWW post about it last week because I did the lion’s share of my reading of this book since then. In many ways it’s very different from the first book, set a number of years after the adventure tours from our world were ended with the denizens of this fantasy land still working toward mending their world. The story mostly takes place at the premiere magical university, where the lingering impacts of the tours are perhaps felt the most, with standards having fallen sharply. The story follows a motley crew of new students, including Elda, one of Wizard Derk’s griffin daughters, as they try to navigate learning magic from a faculty that isn’t at all qualified. I quite enjoyed this book, though I didn’t quite love it. I’m going to try to review this one soon.

Reading Next

Admittedly, I’ve been feeling in need of a break from reading, but I’ve got a number I still want to get through before year’s end, so I’m going to have to wait until January, I think. The next two books I’m planning to read are both from the library. The first is a graphic novel called House of Women by Sophie Goldstein. I don’t know much about it, I just grabbed it off the shelf because it looked interesting, so we’ll see. After that, I intend to start reading Why I Love Horror, a collection of essays about horror literature, including essays by authors such as Paul Tremblay and Josh Malerman. Seems I’m still in the mood for horror.

Until next time, thank you for reading! Feel free to share your own post down below.