Terry Estep
@terryestep.bsky.social
Gay (He/Him). Video-game addict. Newspaper drone. Social Justice Beastmaster. Atheist. Feminist. Obsessed with Nightwing's butt.
YOU CAN SCREAM is a decent thriller. It's not easy jumping into a series in progress, but Rebecca Zanetti did a good job of establishing characters and their history. Laurel's half-sister would make Hannibal Lecter mutter "That bitch is crazy." I might have to read the early #books at some point.
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
YOU CAN SCREAM is a decent thriller. It's not easy jumping into a series in progress, but Rebecca Zanetti did a good job of establishing characters and their history. Laurel's half-sister would make Hannibal Lecter mutter "That bitch is crazy." I might have to read the early #books at some point.
I started listening to Joe Hill's "King Sorrow." In the first chapter, a guy is visiting his mother in prison and makes a joke about a book called "Escape in 10 Easy Lessons." That joke was made in "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," so nice tip of the hat to his dad if deliberate. #books
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I started listening to Joe Hill's "King Sorrow." In the first chapter, a guy is visiting his mother in prison and makes a joke about a book called "Escape in 10 Easy Lessons." That joke was made in "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," so nice tip of the hat to his dad if deliberate. #books
It took forever to get my first Ancient Seed in my current Stardew Valley run, but my Ancient Fruit Wine empire is starting to come together. I love that exponential growth of one plant to two to four to eight to eventually taking over Ginger Island. #gaming #NintendoSwitch
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It took forever to get my first Ancient Seed in my current Stardew Valley run, but my Ancient Fruit Wine empire is starting to come together. I love that exponential growth of one plant to two to four to eight to eventually taking over Ginger Island. #gaming #NintendoSwitch
My December TBR, with the goal of reading any three of these #books .
Ed McBain - THE MUGGER
Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro - THE COURT OF THE DEAD
Robert McCammon - GONE SOUTH
Joe Hill - KING SORROW
S.A. Cosby - ALL THE SINNERS BLEED
Erik J. Brown - BETTER THE DEVIL
Ed McBain - THE MUGGER
Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro - THE COURT OF THE DEAD
Robert McCammon - GONE SOUTH
Joe Hill - KING SORROW
S.A. Cosby - ALL THE SINNERS BLEED
Erik J. Brown - BETTER THE DEVIL
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My December TBR, with the goal of reading any three of these #books .
Ed McBain - THE MUGGER
Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro - THE COURT OF THE DEAD
Robert McCammon - GONE SOUTH
Joe Hill - KING SORROW
S.A. Cosby - ALL THE SINNERS BLEED
Erik J. Brown - BETTER THE DEVIL
Ed McBain - THE MUGGER
Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro - THE COURT OF THE DEAD
Robert McCammon - GONE SOUTH
Joe Hill - KING SORROW
S.A. Cosby - ALL THE SINNERS BLEED
Erik J. Brown - BETTER THE DEVIL
November TBR results. I read five of the six #books on my list.
✅ Jonathan Carroll - THE LAND OF LAUGHS
✅ Dick Francis - COMEBACK
✅ Ian Fleming - LIVE AND LET DIE
❎ Justin Arnold - KEEP IT IN THE DARK
✅ Michael Crichton - DRAGON TEETH
✅ Kelley Armstrong - DEATH AT A HIGHLAND WEDDING
✅ Jonathan Carroll - THE LAND OF LAUGHS
✅ Dick Francis - COMEBACK
✅ Ian Fleming - LIVE AND LET DIE
❎ Justin Arnold - KEEP IT IN THE DARK
✅ Michael Crichton - DRAGON TEETH
✅ Kelley Armstrong - DEATH AT A HIGHLAND WEDDING
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
November TBR results. I read five of the six #books on my list.
✅ Jonathan Carroll - THE LAND OF LAUGHS
✅ Dick Francis - COMEBACK
✅ Ian Fleming - LIVE AND LET DIE
❎ Justin Arnold - KEEP IT IN THE DARK
✅ Michael Crichton - DRAGON TEETH
✅ Kelley Armstrong - DEATH AT A HIGHLAND WEDDING
✅ Jonathan Carroll - THE LAND OF LAUGHS
✅ Dick Francis - COMEBACK
✅ Ian Fleming - LIVE AND LET DIE
❎ Justin Arnold - KEEP IT IN THE DARK
✅ Michael Crichton - DRAGON TEETH
✅ Kelley Armstrong - DEATH AT A HIGHLAND WEDDING
My #FridayReads update... I'm nearing the end of Rebecca Zanetti's YOU CAN SCREAM. I'll likely finish it tomorrow and then write my review. I'm also near the end of Laurell K. Hamilton's BURNT OFFERINGS (audiobook). After that? More hockey smut sounds good. #books
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My #FridayReads update... I'm nearing the end of Rebecca Zanetti's YOU CAN SCREAM. I'll likely finish it tomorrow and then write my review. I'm also near the end of Laurell K. Hamilton's BURNT OFFERINGS (audiobook). After that? More hockey smut sounds good. #books
Arrogance and Stupidity
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November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I love this movie just for John C. McGinley as a gay gunfighter.
SLADE: The name's Slade.
JULIAN: Super. Here's an idea. Why don't you spell it out for me so I can get it right on your tombstone.
– Wagons East
SLADE: The name's Slade.
JULIAN: Super. Here's an idea. Why don't you spell it out for me so I can get it right on your tombstone.
– Wagons East
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I love this movie just for John C. McGinley as a gay gunfighter.
SLADE: The name's Slade.
JULIAN: Super. Here's an idea. Why don't you spell it out for me so I can get it right on your tombstone.
– Wagons East
SLADE: The name's Slade.
JULIAN: Super. Here's an idea. Why don't you spell it out for me so I can get it right on your tombstone.
– Wagons East
Dinner break over and ready to start the fourth and final movie of the Thanksgiving shift marathon. This time we're going with Wagons East.
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Dinner break over and ready to start the fourth and final movie of the Thanksgiving shift marathon. This time we're going with Wagons East.
Third movie of the Thanksgiving shift marathon: Ratatouille.
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Third movie of the Thanksgiving shift marathon: Ratatouille.
Second movie of the Thanksgiving shift: My Dinner With Andre. Sure, why not?
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Second movie of the Thanksgiving shift: My Dinner With Andre. Sure, why not?
I'm working the holiday shift and have movies playing on my tablet. Starting this Thankigiving marathon with Better Off Dead.
"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm working the holiday shift and have movies playing on my tablet. Starting this Thankigiving marathon with Better Off Dead.
"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."
I lost the Read What You Own challenge. I held out three weeks without buying a new book, which is still pretty impressive for me. A former coworker has a signing coming up for her newest book and I lost the challenge by buying a copy for my Kindle. I’ll buy the paperback at her signing. #books
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I lost the Read What You Own challenge. I held out three weeks without buying a new book, which is still pretty impressive for me. A former coworker has a signing coming up for her newest book and I lost the challenge by buying a copy for my Kindle. I’ll buy the paperback at her signing. #books
My dad died on a Black Friday, so I always forget the actual day until it lands. Today makes nine years since cancer took him, after Trump was elected the first time but before he took office. If Dad were alive, he'd be calling me every day asking "Did you hear what that asshole said this time?"
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My dad died on a Black Friday, so I always forget the actual day until it lands. Today makes nine years since cancer took him, after Trump was elected the first time but before he took office. If Dad were alive, he'd be calling me every day asking "Did you hear what that asshole said this time?"
I started listening to Laurell K. Hamilton's BURNT OFFERINGS. I like the first nine or ten Anita Blake novels, but I always lose interest in the series when it makes the switch to her banging monsters left and right. #books
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I started listening to Laurell K. Hamilton's BURNT OFFERINGS. I like the first nine or ten Anita Blake novels, but I always lose interest in the series when it makes the switch to her banging monsters left and right. #books
I gave a negative review to a werewolf novel a couple months ago. Now I’m reading an ARC of an upcoming thriller from a New York Times bestselling author and thinking I was too hard on the wolf guy because they share many of the same flaws. I’d DNF this if I didn’t have to review it. #books
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I gave a negative review to a werewolf novel a couple months ago. Now I’m reading an ARC of an upcoming thriller from a New York Times bestselling author and thinking I was too hard on the wolf guy because they share many of the same flaws. I’d DNF this if I didn’t have to review it. #books
I stopped at the other Little Free Library and found a nice (library stamped) hardcover first edition of Tom Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. That was too good to pass up. #books
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I stopped at the other Little Free Library and found a nice (library stamped) hardcover first edition of Tom Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. That was too good to pass up. #books
As JD Vance rewinds the movie so he can see the guy leap on the couch and knock the cushions off.
#Svengoolie #CurseOfTheUndead
#Svengoolie #CurseOfTheUndead
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
As JD Vance rewinds the movie so he can see the guy leap on the couch and knock the cushions off.
#Svengoolie #CurseOfTheUndead
#Svengoolie #CurseOfTheUndead
Marjorie Taylor Green announces she's resigning from Congress and my birthday is about a week away.... coincidence?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Marjorie Taylor Green announces she's resigning from Congress and my birthday is about a week away.... coincidence?
My #FridayReads update... I'm almost to the end of Ian Fleming's LIVE AND LET DIE (ebook) and should finish it tonight after work. I'm also within spitting distance of the end of Michael Crichton's DRAGON TEETH (audiobook). It's not great, but mediocre Crichton is still pretty good. #books
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
My #FridayReads update... I'm almost to the end of Ian Fleming's LIVE AND LET DIE (ebook) and should finish it tonight after work. I'm also within spitting distance of the end of Michael Crichton's DRAGON TEETH (audiobook). It's not great, but mediocre Crichton is still pretty good. #books
One of my favorite parts of being an adult is sometimes I'll realize I can just make a grilled cheese sandwich when I want one.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
One of my favorite parts of being an adult is sometimes I'll realize I can just make a grilled cheese sandwich when I want one.
“Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
Never mind me. I’m just sitting here at the bus stop with a few tears in my eyes after listening to the end of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. It gets me every time. #books
Never mind me. I’m just sitting here at the bus stop with a few tears in my eyes after listening to the end of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. It gets me every time. #books
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
Never mind me. I’m just sitting here at the bus stop with a few tears in my eyes after listening to the end of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. It gets me every time. #books
Never mind me. I’m just sitting here at the bus stop with a few tears in my eyes after listening to the end of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. It gets me every time. #books
Your daily reminder that Donald Trump is a whiny little bitch.
Trump attacks ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce in angry response to three sharp questions
President Donald Trump denounced ABC News chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” and threatened the network's license to broadcast after she asked three sharp questions in...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Your daily reminder that Donald Trump is a whiny little bitch.
The bus driver stopped and asked a startled young man where he was headed.
“Uh… the mall.”
“Well climb on in! It’s too cold and dreary to be walking that far! Don’t worry about the fare. I’ll just charge you double next time.”*
And that’s why she’s my favorite driver.
*She won’t charge double.
“Uh… the mall.”
“Well climb on in! It’s too cold and dreary to be walking that far! Don’t worry about the fare. I’ll just charge you double next time.”*
And that’s why she’s my favorite driver.
*She won’t charge double.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The bus driver stopped and asked a startled young man where he was headed.
“Uh… the mall.”
“Well climb on in! It’s too cold and dreary to be walking that far! Don’t worry about the fare. I’ll just charge you double next time.”*
And that’s why she’s my favorite driver.
*She won’t charge double.
“Uh… the mall.”
“Well climb on in! It’s too cold and dreary to be walking that far! Don’t worry about the fare. I’ll just charge you double next time.”*
And that’s why she’s my favorite driver.
*She won’t charge double.
I started reading Ian Fleming's LIVE AND LET DIE over the weekend. I was not prepared for the sheer 1950s-level of outdated racial terminology. It's a good story so far, but it's made me cringe a few times. #books
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I started reading Ian Fleming's LIVE AND LET DIE over the weekend. I was not prepared for the sheer 1950s-level of outdated racial terminology. It's a good story so far, but it's made me cringe a few times. #books