2018 Reading: The Book Thief

#44 A book tied to your ancestry

I pretty much think that any book written from the perspective of death is going to be a good one. I like the way this book was put together. It was chronological, but there were also times that it sliped into the future or the past, but not in a way that became annoying or confusing. Though that would have been okay since given the time period of the story, confusion would have been rampant and completely appropriate. I'm glad that I read this book though I don't really know if I am going to follow up with the movie or not. I've not heard much about it.

2018 Reading: The Crow: Lazarus Heart

#16 A book with an animal in the title

God, I forgot how much I love Billy's writing. Ugh, it's just so flowing and beautiful. Whole passages about severed limbs and vivisection read like poetry set to soothing classical music. If only we could find someone with an amazing voice to read all Poppy Z. Brite books, I would fall asleep every night listening to the sounds of Steve and Ghost driving in the dark, to Zillah and Nothing opening a vein to share a drink of fresh blood, to Zach and Trevor's psychodelic fever dream of insanity and talking cartoon animals, to Andrew and Jay discovering their love for each other over a dismembered human head... Every. Night.

And I have gotten into the habit of breaking books up into their chapters and pairing them with other books with the same amount of chapters so that I can read more than one book at a time, but I found myself wanting to power through this one all at once, even though I knew that I would hate myself later. UGH, it was such a tough decision to stop after every chapter and move on to the other book. But, I wanted savor each chapter BECAUSE IT WAS SO GOOD!

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Sorry, went off on a tangent there.

The Crow is one of my favorite movies, based on one of my favorite graphic novels of all time. Always has been. And to put that concept together with my favorite author of all time? Yes, please!

2018 Reading: Ghoulia

This book was just added to our library along with the DVD and I thought it was the cutest thing ever.