Woohoo! I finished it this morning (partly because I decided it was too scary to finish last night after dinner and before bed).

I've been watching Psych, and I keep looking up guest stars who look vaguely familiar and have ended up on multiple people who have 100+ IMDb credits. It's too many for me to read through and figure out where I know them from, but you could get a lot of mileage out of that.

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead is a thriller about true crime internet sleuths investigating murders told from the pov of one of the sleuths setting the record straight about what happened. I don't know how much I liked it, but it was a page turner. CN: grief/mourning, murder, danger.

Oh no! <3

The September House by Carissa Orlando is an excellent haunted house horror novel. It starts out very funny - Margaret is not leaving her house just because the walls bleed and the ghosts become active in September - but gets darker as it goes along. CN: domestic violence, murder, supernatural evil.

My book club read Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty. It was fine, but not as good as her other books. Most of our group liked its exploration of fate versus free will questions, and people who listened to it liked the audio book. I wanted some of its things to be more subtle. CN: grief/mourning.

I really enjoyed The Last Session by Julia Bartz. It's a suspense novel that involves a cult, a famous actress and the main character's relationship to her breakout film, and dealing with past trauma. CN: cult, murder, past sexual assault, more complete notes in the book's front matter.

Awww, I love this illustration! <3

The Ascent by Allison Buccola is a solid, engrossing novel about a woman who grew up in a cult until everyone else disappeared, who is now a new mother. I couldn't put it down. CN: cult, gaslighting, bullying.

Splinter & Ash by Marieke Nijkamp is an enjoyable middle grade fantasy novel about a nonbinary squire to a disabled princess who uses a cane. There's friendship and intrigue, and it grabbed me immediately.

Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack is a middle grade historical fantasy novel with a Jewish protagonist. I enjoyed the Jewish elements. It was a little bit not my style, but mostly just because it was for a much younger audience.

I liked it a lot! I also realized late last night that it reminded me of Once More From the Top by Emily Layden, which I also loved.

I really enjoyed The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan. It's an engrossing and queer novel about an author and the history behind her and her pseudonym and the things she's running from. I recommend it!

Shutter by Ramona Emerson is fine. It's a novel about a photographer who sees ghosts. It's more about her history than the case it's supposed to be about. It's not a thriller, even though it claims to be.

Luckily it was my left ankle, so I can still drive. Also, I had already planned to take tomorrow off, so I will be resting instead of running errands.