There Might Be Cupcakes and Books

Creator, producer, and voice of the There Might Be Cupcakes podcast. Bluestocking. Writer. Virginian. Mountain dweller. NetGalley reviewer. Librarian of The Dollop podcast

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Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures - Loren Coleman

I so need to catch up with you all, and I need to correct my read shelf...but I have a very good excuse. I have been knee-deep in an excellent project:

I am the webmaster and the librarian for the The Dollop Podcast's website. It's an American history podcast by two comedians, Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds. After they broadcast, I write so-you-want-to-know-more blog entries, pages, post original documents, etc.

 

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I've missed you guys. Now that I have this bad boy on an even keel, I can maintain both my reading journal and The Dollop. Time to catch uupppppppppp...

 

riding the carousel with Phoebe Caulfield
riding the carousel with Phoebe Caulfield
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Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers - Michael G. Long

Netgalley loves me and wants me to be happy. Today, I was notified about this book, requested it, was granted permission, and started reading it. Yay, Netgalley and yay, Mr. Rogers!

"But she was so nice and quiet!"
"But she was so nice and quiet!"
Source: http://twitter.com/carlahaunted/status/579299627641401345

Reading progress update: I've read 147 out of 324 pages.

The Tooth Fairy - Graham Joyce

Horror expansion project read: This is much more than I expected, but I am at a loss to explain just how. It's shocking and spooky and darkly funny. I am mesmerized and disgusted and enjoying every minute of it,

 

the whole list: carla.booklikes.com/HorrorTBR

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7 Things '50 Shades' Gets Wrong About BDSM (From an Expert)

"There is something here that we do not understand. But do you hear the stars? They are telling you not to be afraid."
Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle

Many Waters (Time #4), Madeleine L'Engle

 

The stars are a gentle love song.

NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
"She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness."
Yes Please - Amy Poehler I really am enjoying the aging process, becoming more myself with each year.

Gacy Heidnik Ray Graham It puts the lotion on its skin

NOS4A2 - Joe Hill

This book contains perhaps the most frightening sentence I've ever read:

 

The basement smelled of old pipes, unwashed laundry, and rape.

"I wish for her, a sharp thought that leaves an ache behind, like the smoke from a blown-out candle after a birthday wish."
This Is How I Find Her - Sara Polsky

This is How I Find Her, Sara Polsky

"It seemed to her sometimes that this was the only fight that mattered: the struggle to take the world's chaos and make it mean something, to put it to words."
NOS4A2 - Joe Hill

--NOS4A2, Joe Hill

Books read: January, 2015

The Magician King - Lev Grossman Night Film - Marisha Pessl Anno Dracula  - Kim Newman The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer - M. William Phelps The Necromancer - Douglas Clegg Arsenic and Old Lace - Acting Edition - Joseph Kesselring

17 books read: 14 fiction, 3 nonfiction

 

1 horror expansion project novel read: The Necromancer, Douglas Clegg

 

2 new favorites:

  • The Magician King (The Magicians, #2), Lev Grossman
  • Night Film, Marisha Pessl

1 favorite reread: Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1), Kim Newman

 

best fiction read: Night Film, Marisha Pessl   

best nonfiction read: The Devil's Rooming House, M. William Phelps: the true story behind Arsenic and Old Lace

 

 

This American Life: Iggy Pop on William S. Burroughs

Currently reading

The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity
Cynthia Bourgeault
The Ascent to Truth
Thomas Merton
NRSV Bible
Harper Bibles, Anonymous
Abhorsen
Garth Nix
Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron (Anno Dracula 2)
Kim Newman
The Complete Poems
Maxine Kumin, Anne Sexton
Progress: 202/615 pages
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Karen V. Kukil, Sylvia Plath
Progress: 112/732 pages
The Message//REMIX Solo: An Uncommon Devotional
Progress: 12 %
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version
Pheme Perkins, Carol A. Newsom, Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael D. Coogan, Anonymous
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