#books in the freezer

[deadboyfriendd]

I want to read The Salt Grows Heavy but a friend of mine tried to talk me out of it saying it's full of purple prose. I'd love to know what you thought of the book. I liked the synopsis a lot. I've only been able to read the preview so far and while I did have to look up a few words it didn't make me want to drop it or anything

Hi anon! I will say, the prose is VERY flowery and ornate but if you’ve read my writing, I actually very much enjoy that. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that it combats anything by cormac McCarthy and it doesn’t impede the story at all. It was a relatively short read. Around 200 pages so there’s only so much room for prose. I was fully immersed by the book and finished it straight through in a day. Maybe in about three hours? I

To sum it up, flowery and ornate, yes. But very well used and it doesn’t impede the story immersion at ALL.

#flea answers #books in the freezer

[forthegothicheroine]

I put together this silly template to show off having finished the Books in the Freezer 2022 Reading Challenge!

A Horror Book Released in 2022: The Book of Cold Cases (an enjoyable but forgettable thriller)

Spooky Non-Fiction: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (would have liked a lot more depth in this one, the case left a lot of questions unanswered)

Hybrid Horror Novel: The Fuller Memorandum (not the best installment of the Laundry Files series but there are some good bits)

Horror Book in Translation: Taiping Tales of Terror (some cool monsters in this one)

Horror Graphic Novel: Animal Rites: Beasts of Burden (adorable)

Horror Novella: Gwen, in Green (holy shit this was the best kind of nutty)

YA Horror Novel: The Hallowed Ones (I’m officially not reading YA series anymore, I’m so tired of installments that should have been a couple chapters in a single novel)

Horror Novel with a One-Word Title: Melmoth (well-written but I’m not sure I really got this one)

Book with Green or Yellow Cover: Something More Than Night (a disappointment, I liked the Raymond Chandler jokes but it turned into Kim Newman at his most pointlessly self-referential)

LGBTQ+ Horror Novel: The Damnation Game by Clive Barker (another one I’m not entirely sure I got, maybe I should have picked a different Barker book for this)

Horror Novel with a Black Protagonist: The Changeling (lots of fun, just the kind of folklore-y stuff I like)

Horror Novel with a Non-Human Monster: Blackwater (HELL YES this one was a ride from start to finish!)

#books #horror #books in the freezer

[brightbeautifulthings]

👻 Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (book with chapter titles) Easily the best horror book I've read so far this year. I struggled a little with Jade's rambling perspective in the first book, and this completely resolved that. Excellent homage to slasher films. 4/5

👻 Such Pretty Flowers by K.L. Cerra (2023 release horror) Atmospheric and mysterious, but ultimately better in premise than execution. The ending was a little too tidy for me, and the answers aren't as interesting as the questions. 3/5

👻 The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro (book with orange or purple cover) I didn't vibe with the writing style or the main character, but I did really like the generational horror Castro uses to build on La Llorona story. Not quite for me, but I wouldn't discourage anyone from giving it a try. 2/5

👻 Golem by P.D. Alleva (indie or small press horror) Also more of a case of just not for me, since I tend to dislike demonic cults in my horror fiction. If you can get past the odd framing story, the world-building is pretty cool. 2/5

👻 Horrid by Katrina Leno (book with dysfunctional family) I... waited 300 pages for nothing to happen?? The ambiguity over whether something supernatural is happening goes on for too long, and the ending has zero in the way of character development or coherence. 2/5

#books in the freezer #reading challenge #horror fiction #horror #yrstruly

[backlogbooks]

Okay I’m not sure I’ll be able to read all of these but this looks like so much fun & i’ve been meaning to listen to books in the freezer podcast so! let’s play!

#books in the freezer #reading challenge #mary emma's posts #besides i’ve gotten really into horror so i’ll probably do some of these regardless lol

[sarah-dessen-things]

This Ends at Prom is a podcast hosted by Harmony and BJ Colangelo about girl-centered movies.

One of their summer episodes covered How to Deal, the 2003 adaptation of Sarah Dessen's That Summer and Someone Like You.

Joined by Stephanie (of Books in the Freezer podcast), the trio discuss what's aged well and poorly in the last 20 years, fedoras and hair styles, teen pregnancy, comparisons to the Dessen novels, and how this movie compares to other Mandy Moore movies.

How to Deal is episode 152 of This Ends at Prom. Other than Apple, it's available on Spotify.

#sarah dessen #how to deal #that summer #someone like you #bj colangelo #harmony colangelo #books in the freezer #books in the freezer podcast #this ends at prom #this ends at prom podcast

[toomanylizzes]

Thinking about how Jamie’s general vocabulary and grasp of idiom has improved, and my favourite imagined scenario to explain this is Sam giving Jamie book recommendations, and Jamie texting Sam his reactions as if it’s a soap opera.

#ted lasso #jamie tartt #sam obisanya #richmond himbos #jamie tart runs his fingers along the page and mouths the words #Sam does not loan Jamie books because Jamie will put books in the freezer #enemies to bffs #Jamie is a himbo but he is learning #Sam just becomes more wonderful

[chrollohearttags]

toxic armin x yn core 💕

#no cause he’d make you take it there #would have you sliding his head between the stove and freezer #armin x black !fem reader #armin x black reader #armin headcanons #toxic armin apologist #toxic armin #I’m screaming bc the girl’s name is the same as the oc I had him shipped with in another book #and they had the most TOXIC relationship #cherry chats 🍒 #this tweet be having me hollering every time

[qrsshipper]

I’m just past the halfway point in tsoa and I’m going back and forth between not wanting to put the book down cause it’s so good and not wanting to read on cause I know what’s coming…..

Time to put the book in the freezer

#tsoa #patrochilles #patroclus #achilles #i don’t want to stop #but I don’t want to have to deal with the heartbreak #time to put the book in the freezer

[oflights]

in that post-book fog stage right now as i cook dinner. like yes my body is caramelizing these onions but my heart is still emotionally compromised by the devastating book i just finished!!!

#need to put the book in the freezer #it's the only way

[rosesutherlandwrites]

I'm almost halfway through reading Rebecca and god god y'all, I had to put it down because it's making me too tense. I feel this shy nervous narrator in my bones and I'm so damn sure that Danvers has set her up with this whole fancy dress ball costume that I can't STAND IT

#Rebecca wore the same thing DIDN'T SHE #SHE DID I'M SURE OF IT #I started reading this book with the understanding that it's one of the cornerstones of certain sort of gothic literature #AND I CAN SEE TF WHY #freezer book #daphne du maurier #Rebecca

[deadboyfriendd]

apologies to send an ask so quickly but for your WIP doc game, the title "the salt grows heavy" simply goes too hard for me not to ask about it. that's some biblical chapter title, i think a monk in 1453 wrote a treatise on it. some lot's wife pillar shit. i am desperate for crumbs. or grains (of salt).

AHHHH (also don't worry, I got your other ask, it's just gonna take me a lil to cook up the thoughtful answer your deserve!)

On theme with being heavily influenced by my current reads, The Salt Grows Heavy is the title of a book by one of my favorite authors, Cassandra Khaw! This story, despite being a very quick read, shook me to my very core and I'm STILL thinking about it to this day. It is, in essence, a retelling of the events that happen after the gruesome events of The Little Mermaid. On a side note, I love this story because it isn't disney-centric and doesn't capitalize too much off of the fairytale. It actually took me a really long time to realize that we were all talking about the same mermaid. This creatrure, however, is a deep sea creature. She isn't beautiful in the traditional sense, she isn't traditionally feminine or really even human-esque for that matter. In this book, she is wandering around a seaside village in the midst of a plague epidemic and she comes across a Frankensrtein's monster-adjacent plague doctor with a dark past involving death, magic, and ritual sacrifice. It is bleak, but theres a solidarity in the torture of each of them. They find solace in being undesirable creatures with inherently painful existences together.

The fic that I plan on writing is an extension off of THIS story (an extension of an extension, if you will.) Without giving away too many of the details, the main protagonist is continuing plague doctor!Steve's studies. There's a heavy adam and eve dynamic here, in which she essentially assumes his role as the plague doctor, carving herself from his rib as she immerses herself into his position in an effort to try to put him back together. She learns about his existence before the short span he knew here, and she learns about the human condition while sourcing pieces for her plague doctor. She learns about playing God, and the human ideal of a God, as she recreates her boy in a strange exodus of love and loss. This was a weird little passion project for me, and I'm not expecting it to do very well. I'm just taking my time and having fun with it!

#ask games #flea speaks #books in the freezer #flea answers #flea's friends

[lawisnotmocked]

>:D I can finally get my collection out of storage again!!

#les mis #les miserables #one book is missing bc it’s in the freezer rn ^^’ #and another is waiting to be frozen! #also if u recognise the books on the bottom shelf you’re right they are #I got them in the middle of moving then everything else happened and it never seemed like a good time to post pics ^^’ #building a brick wall

[brightbeautifulthings]

💀 Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Original Sins by Jamie Delano (Horror Graphic Novel) This might be the most terrifying book I read for the challenge. It definitely goes into some dark places. While some of the issues don't quite hit the mark, I really enjoyed the lead character and the overarching plot. 4/5

💀 Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, trans. Kaiama L. Glover (Horror Book in Translation) This is a weird book. I'm not sure I got everything Depestre was getting at on both theme and plot levels, but it's an interesting look at Haitian Vodou culture and the origin of the zombie mythology. 3/5

💀 Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey (Spooky Non-Fiction)

This was the hardest book for me to get through in the challenge, and I'm not sure what Dickey is trying to accomplish here. It's mostly debunking ghost stories with historical facts and tortured uses of the word "haunted" that have nothing at all to do with ghosts. 2/5

#books in the freezer #horror fiction #reading challenge #books in the freezer 2022 reading challenge #yrstruly

[backlogbooks]

does anyone subscribe to Fangoria? Is it worth it?

#the booksinthefreezer ads are started to get to me i wont lie #mary emma talks #fangoria #books in the freezer

[notjanine]

what hidden truths are revealed when people who are so so different from each other choose to love you in the same way

#i am thinking this week about how my mom just sent me the exact same ~thinking of you~ card that i have also received from my best friend #how different friends send me the same memes or gift me the same books #how close friends and loved ones remember what time i take my meds and remind me if i forget while we're together #when i'm sharing a meal at someone’s home and the person setting the table asks if i want a big fork or a small one #when people send me photos of random cats or bugs or other creatures they encounter in their day-to-day lives #and how last semester my boss found a beautiful moth and brought it to campus to show me and #my current preceptor found an abandoned wasp nest and brought it to the hospital for me #recently a few friends have told me (separately) that they want to spend more time with me bc they haven't really had female friends before #thinking about how many times i’ve had loved ones who were planning their weddings double check that i DON’T want to be a bridesmaid #how partners keep good vegan ice cream in the freezer because that’s my favorite post-coital snack #when people watch strange movies i love so we can talk about them together #thinking about the first time anyone calls me to say ‘i just wanted to hear your voice’ #there is so much love in the world #how do i know if i’m giving enough back? how do i know if i’m doing it right?

[graycious-tea]

I’m gonna pull a Joey and put CR in the freezer

This is me

#crimson rivers #jegulus #wolfstar #fanfic #friends #joey tribbiani #I’m putting the book in the freezer #remus lupin #sirius black #james potter #regulus black