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Topic: Women In Horror
Time: Mar 16, 2025 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Come join myself, Naomi, Natalie, and Steph on Saturday 3.15.2025 at 3:00 pm EST for a live chat to talk about women in horror! We will discuss our favorite horror books written by women, anticipated releases, and more :) Zoom link to come, hope to see you there!

Hi my loves!

If you aren't in the discord yet I ~highly~ recommend joining as that is where most of our discussion and updates are for book club. I posted an update in the discord notifying everyone that for at least the next couple of months we are going to pause live meetings. Our book club is still small and growing and there are some months I have had only 1 or 0 RSVPs for the live meetings (which is fine - never any pressure to join!!) but I figured it would be better at least for a bit to make sure more people can be included in our discussions. To do this I am going to focus on discord chat and polls throughout the month to keep as many people engaged in the discussion (on our own time) as possible.

Our book for February is Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina - I can't wait to chit chat with you all about it :)

A calendar is here that will help us all stay on track the rest of the month to make sure we try to finish the book before March suddenly appears.

I loveee setting goals each year and although it may not be for everyone, hobby-goal setting is always my favorite.

Here are my 4 main reading goals for 2025:

1) Read more sci-fi

Almost everytime I read science fiction I have SO much fun with it and ask myself why I don't read sci fi more often... and then I continue to _not _read it. 2025 is my year of science fiction!! I personally lean more towards dystopian, techy/AI, and timetravel types of scifi and mostly steer clear of anything space (idk why but space travel is about as interesting to me as grocery shopping). If you have recs that fit these please tell me!

2) Read 130 books

For 2023 and 2024 I set my goal as 125 and I've reached it easily each time, although narrowly. 125 has become an easy target for me, 130 will still be doable but a bit of a discipline stretch which I'm looking for in my reading this year. I don't want to read a high quantity just for the sake of numbers, but I do want to be intentional about integrating reading more into my daily routine, and I think the outcome of that will be more books read.

3) Read with my eyes more -- especially print books

Trust me I will NEVER be the "audiobooks don't count as reading" type - I think I've read over 70 audiobooks this year and I'm never stopping. Libro.FM hates to see me coming. BUT my attention span has shrunk to non-existent (just in life in general- not only with books) and i want reading to be more of an unplugged hobby without the stimuli of playing games at the same time or scrolling online. Hopefully I can improve my attention span, withdraw from the instant gratification and seratonin of the internet, and sit in a quiet room for an hour+ to read print books without feeling like I'm experiencing WWIII fighting to get back to my phone.

4) Finish Octavia Butlers backlist

This goal relates closely to #1 - but I have LOVED everything I've read from the mother of Black science fiction and I want to prioritize her work next year.

So far I have read:

• Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Fledgling, and Wild Seed

Next up I need to get to:

• The Xenogenesis series, Bloodchild and Other Stories and the rest of the Patternmaster series.

Can't wait to read these with you!!

Please RSVP to the below google meetings if you plan on attending :)

The Good House:

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Hi inner circle members! It is time to vote on our book club selections for January and February of 2025 :)

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• For January our choices are:
  • The Good House by Tananarive Due
    • Angela hoped her grandmother's famous "healing magic" could save her failing marriage while she and her family lived in the old house the summer of 2001. Instead, an unexpected tragedy ripped Angela's family apart. Two years later, Angela is moving past her grief and is finally ready to revisit the rural house she loved so much as a child. But back in Sacajawea, she discovers she hasn't been the only one to suffer a shocking loss. Since she left, there have been more senseless tragedies, and Angela wonders whether they are related somehow. Could the events be linked to a terrifying entity her grandmother battled in 1929? Did her teenage son, Corey, reawaken something that should have been left sleeping? With the help of Myles Fisher, her high school boyfriend, and clues from beyond the grave, Angela races to solve a deadly puzzle that has followed her family for generations. She must summon her own hidden gifts to face the timeless adversary stalking her in her grandmother's house--and in the Washington woods.
  • Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
    • A provocative and unforgettable debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, Maeve Fly will thrill fans of slashers and the macabre. By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green - her best friend’s brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it’s Maeve’s turn with the knife.
• February choices are....
  • Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
    • Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino...and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step--an ancient tribal myth come-to-life, one that's intent on devouring her whole. With strange and sinister happenings occurring around the casino, Anna starts to suspect that not all the horrors on the reservation are old. As girls begin to go missing and the tribe scrambles to find answers, Anna struggles with her place on the rez, desperately searching for the key she's sure lies in the legends of her tribe's past. When Anna's own little sister also disappears, she'll do anything to bring Grace home. But the demons plaguing the reservation--both ancient and new--are strong, and sometimes, it's the stories that never get told that are the most important. Part gripping thriller and part mythological horror, author Nick Medina spins an incisive and timely novel of life as an outcast, the cost of forgetting tradition, and the courage it takes to become who you were always meant to be.
  • The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap
    • In the tradition of The Alienist and A Love Story, a decadently macabre, dark and twisty gothic debut set in 19th century Scotland – when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh – as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching. Historical fiction, true crime, and dark academia intertwine in a harrowing tale of murder, greed, and the grisly origins of modern medicine for readers of Lydia Kang, ML Rio, Sarah Perry, and C.E. McGill.