I Love Joe Hill...

in the literary sense, not in the stalkery sense.
For those of you who don't know, Joe Hill's new book Horns came out on Tuesday, and I declare that you must run out and buy it. I did. If that's not reason enough for you, well fuck, what better reason than that do you need...ok, well I have a better reason for those of you who don't care for the last one that I gave you; Horns is AWESOME (don't make me bust out the AWESOME-O-METER to show you just how awesome, 'cause I will)! When I saw Joe Hill's tweet (yes I follow him on Twitter) on Tuesday saying that Horns hit the shelves that morning, I ran out on my break to grab it. Sorry Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter, you've been back burnered until I finish Horns, and that's saying something, 'cause Queen Vic was starting to get pretty good. Prince Albert just got kidnapped by a werewolf, that shit is gold, but alas it must wait.
I'm about half way trough Horns right now, and I don't want to put it down. I'm really digging it, in fact I don't even really want to be writing this right now, I'd rather be delving deeper into the book. To be totally honest, I kind of resented taking a shower today because, fuck knows, you can't read in the shower...now the bath on the other hand...shit! I should have said 'fuck showers' and taken a bath, reading and cleanliness combined! Again, I digress...(that seems to happen a lot...anyone else notice that?)...
Anyhoo, I highly recommend giving Joe Hill's other books a read too, Heart Shaped Box is a great novel. It's spooky and well written with great characters. 20th Century Ghosts is an awesome short story collection that spans horror, sci-fi, and has a little bit of heart break and comedy in there too. I absolutely loved all of the stories in the collection; partly because they're so well written, partly because they're all so different in genre and content and partly because I've got a big soft spot for the short story as an artform. By far the most though, I love his graphic novel series Locke & Key. The first two trades are out, and I promise that once you've read the first one you'll jump to the next and then be like me, waiting and longing for the next volume to come out.
Now, back to Horns...

Long Time, No Post...

Ok, well maybe not a long time, but a week or so, which is longer than I had originally planned on going between posts. So here I am! Posting! It's me, it's me!

So, I started reading the book that my sister and brother in law gave me for Christmas, it's called Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter (by A.E. Moorat)and the tag line (yes, a book with a tag line, books are marketed like movies now, deal with it...like I'm trying to)is...wait for it...wait for it..."She loved her country. She hated zombies."

Now I've gotta admit that I had seen this book a couple of times during my aimless bookstore wanderings, chucked at the ridiculousness of it, and moved along. But, since I got it as a gift ('cause they know that I love zombies...not the same way that I love kittens...like I don't want to cuddle with zombies or give them them treats or anything, mostly 'cause those treats would be my delicious brain which I'm not willing to part with at the moment...but I digress, shocking, I know) I figured that I should give it a read...

...and here's the thing, I kinda dig it, I mean really it sold me at the end of the first chapter with this:
"'Sir, it's the zombies, sir' Perkins managed, breathing heavily.
There was a crack of lightning from outside, a rumble of thunder.
'Yes?' said Quimby, still irritated. 'What about the zombies?'
'Sir, they're eating the prostitutes'"
End of chapter. AWESOMENESS!

I mean, I just can't help myself...when there's zombies eating prostitutes, a girl's just gotta keep reading. That being said, I'm not even a quarter of the way through the book, so I'll leave this with; Less typing, more reading.

That is all.

Booooooooone!

I finished reading Jeff Smith's Bone today. It was absolutely amazing! I loved it! The only down side to it, was that it weighed about 10 pounds, no exaggeration, I actually hit myself in the face with it a few times when I fell asleep reading, but what can ya do, right?
So, yeah, Bone was a fucking great read! I can't recommend it enough, to anyone. Everyone. I still haven't read Rose, the prequel book, but it's sitting at my feet at the moment just calling for me to read it as soon as I'm done typing this. I also think I'm going to have a look around on the great and powerful inter-webs to see if I can get Bartelby stuffed animal...ok, I'm back...hmm, I think that might require more searching...I did come across a Fone Bone stuffed animal though...CUUUUUTE!
My list of stuff to read just doesn't seem to be getting any smaller though. I still have to read Wild Things, Metamorphosis, Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter (that one my sister and brother in law game me for Christmas), The Boys (book 1)...geeze, and I know that there are a couple more that I'm forgetting about.
I think I'm going to have to ban myself from book stores until I've made a bigger dent in the pile. There's also a bunch of my older books that I want to re-read, like the Princess Bride, Watership Down, Pornographer's Poem, and a bunch of others, but they'll have to wait for a little while...
There just never seems to be enough time...womp womp