And the Goodreads Choice Award in Horror Goes to . . .
Grady Hendrix! Honored to be in this heady mix, though:
Hadn’t thought of it like this
I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have to live down somehow:
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/17/wolf-tool-use-animals https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted https://www.wired.com/story/a-disease-carrying-mosquito-has-landed-in-the-rocky-mountains-where-it-historically-couldnt-survive https://www.wired.com/story/can-a-hydroelectric-dam-really-make-the-days-longer Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists | Neanderthals | The Guardian https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-became-the-king-of-streaming https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-successfully-extract-40000-year-old-rna-from-woolly-mammoth Superman edition found in mum’s attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” readies for last episode https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/graphics/see-how-egyptians-built-giza-pyramids They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Christianity
Audible’s top 20 of 2025!
In both General AND Horror! https://www.audible.com/blog/article-2025-best-horror-audiobooks https://www.audible.com/ep/best-of-the-year
Time’s 100 Books, and much more:
Cool list for a vampire novel to be on: And, while I’m at it, here’s just a whole stack of BHH lists and reviews (which I hope to put on the BHH page soon, here): The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones – love the title and liked the book – Trending Books https://dj-screenwriter.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-by-stephen.html
Texas Book Fest 2025
Was in Seattle at Auburn Library Friday night, where @thatnerdchick slipped me some Chipotle to I could dine in my preferred style in the green room: Then it was a lot of this fun action: Got back to the room pushing midnight, and wired, had to pack and be ready for my car at 2:30am
Best Reads from Lately
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club Sealed for 5.5 Million Years, Movile Cave Hints at the Nature of Extraterrestrial Life Inside one American’s year-long attempt to date alt-right men https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/ireland-lion-dog-mouse.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation – High Country News For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to Ojibwe Nation https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-all-still-carrying-around-car-keys https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/thomas-pynchon-shadow-ticket-review-b2840031.html
Madwoman’s Library Book Club
With Kristin Kreuk, who was great to talk to about The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kristin Kreuk (@mskristinlkreuk)
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Madwoman’s Library w/ Kristin Kreuk (@themadwomanslibrary)