“Abandon all hope ye who enter here ..”
28 August 2013 
The long lazy days of summer are almost at an end and the nights begin to draw in. The leaves on the trees begin to blush in preparation for autumn. Shut your curtains, lock your doors, prepare a glass of your favourite poison (ahem, not really poison!) and crack open that dusty novel you’ve been saving for R.I.P. Difficult to believe but the Readers’ Imbibing Peril event hosted by Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings is once more upon us.
Not a challenge but a fun event that anyone can join in with. Loads of bloggy goodness, chat, readalongs, reviews – prepare for your TBR to grow to monstrous new heights! Focusing on dark fantasy, chillers, thrillers, murders and other things that go bump in the night the details are all here so go and sign yourself up now.
There was a hand in the dark – it held a book… make it so!
I’m thinking of taking on some of the following:
R.I.P VIII
- Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
- Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Devil’s Kiss by Sarwat Chadda
- Forsaken by Jana Oliver
- The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
- Full Blooded by Amanda Carlson
- The Returned by Jason Mott
- Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes
- Dinner at Deviant’s Palace by Tim Powers
- A Discourse in Steel by Paul Kempt
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
(Probably won’t manage all those – or may even become distracted by others, who knows? It’s all part of the fun.)
Return to reality…
Just returned home after two lovely weeks away. Back to earth with a bump quite literally! The weather here is awful, we had no wi-fi virtually for the full time – which was a ‘blessing’ and ‘not a blessing’ and tomorrow (dum, dum, dum) back to work!! The first day back is always a bit surreal for me – part of my brain doesn’t feel like it’s back in the country and the other part is catching up with all the unread emails and I can’t help torturing myself by thinking pointless things like ‘this time last week I was…..’ Oh well, needs must and all that.
The good thing is I managed to fit in a few holiday reads, not as many as I like to do normally but we were trekking about so time was tight. I don’t think most people I know would consider the books I was reading as typical holiday reads as I was reading books to include in Stainless Steel’s RIP event which are not exactly light and fluffy reads (but who wants light and fluffy?). It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it. So, my books were:
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher – this is the third in the Dresden series and it was seriously good! Not to mention – the name is almost too perfect for this none-challenge so it had to go on the list.
Envy by Elizabeth Miles which is the second in her series about three women who serve their own form of revenge on wrong doers – based on the Greek myth of the Furies.
Shadows by Ilsa Bick which delves into the realm of zombie type post apocalypse storytelling – quite horrifying in this case not to mention scary!
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice – probably doesn’t really need an introduction.
The Duplicate by Helen Fitzgerald – which for me is a horror with a bit of a take on the Frankenstein theme.
There they are. Just need to write my reviews now. I will say that I enjoyed them all so that’s definitely the good news.
Check out the RIP event here and sign yourself up now – this is a really great (not to mention massive) book event and Carl is a really cool host.
Books and travelling with Lynn 