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11/3/2026 What's your proudest achievement?

Hmm, you know what, giving birth! I created a human being inside me and then painfully, very painfully pushed it out. How the eff does the human body even do that?

Second, eh writing that boring 80 page masters thesis

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11/10/2026 Which emoji do you use the most?

11/17/2026 Which tropes do you enjoy the most?

11/24/2026 Which books are you looking forward to reading this Winter? (Dec-Feb)

12/1/2026 If you had to delete all but three apps off of your phone, which ones would you keep?

12/8/2026 Have you ever won a contest?

12/15/2026 What's your least favourite holiday and why?

12/22/2026 Gifts: do you prefer several small gifts or one big item?

12/29/2026  What are your favorite books/audiobooks that you read in 2026? 

Best of October

 

Adios October!!! Helllllooooooo November!

Here are our faves for last month.

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd - The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison

"Interesting fantasy murder mystery."

Carole -  Dracula by Bram Stoker (2026)

"The story is always good, but the voice acting in this version was just soooo good."

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  Obsession (2025)

"So messed up but you can't look away!"

Blodeuedd - Vaiana (2026)

"I went to see Vaiana with my kid. If you want to know why it's not called Moana in Europe google at your own risk..."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Haunted Hotel (s2), The Rookie (s7), Below (2026), & Ghosts (s5)

"Binged Rookie s7. I watched Below, creepy! And haunted Hotel s2 cos it's the season. And Ghost s5!!!" 

Carole - Rutherford Falls (s1-2)

"Such a fun show! I am soooo bummed it was canceled after season 2."

Best Cover of the Month:

B's pick

C's pick

Pumpkin spice and not so nice

Narrated by: Stefanie Kay

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Release date: 10-13-22

Publisher: Monson Publishing LLC

Romance/audible

I...do not remember anything anymore. Even as I was listening I was drifting. No shade on the narrator, she did well. But this story was a bit, dunno really.

Also some reviews make me dull, some hating on it cos it is named pumpkin spice and they expected spice. LOL. It is a Fall book, I never thought anything else.

Anyway, Jenna has bad luck with me. She meets someone that she is coaching cos he is not a talker. They slowly...slowly! fall in love. And her family has a pumpkin farm. Very forgettable

If I were ever to write a memoir, it would be titled, Jenna Peterson’s Guide to Dating Emotionally Unavailable Men. I’m like a professional at it. I’m so good, I can take any dysfunctional man and turn him into Prince Charming, just in time for him to dump me and then go on to marry the next woman he dates. I’m about ready to give up on loving real men and focus on lusting over fictional men in the Turkish dramas I can’t stop devouring.

But then... I find a mysterious 50-dollar bill with a handwritten note on it that was donated to my family’s pumpkin patch by accident. And wouldn’t you know it, the mystery man it belongs to is emotionally unavailable, albeit freakishly attractive. I keep telling myself to walk away, but there’s something about Aidan St. Claire that makes me want to unravel all his secrets. All I know is he sure can heat up the cozy fall nights. I can’t help but think that maybe this time I’ll get to keep Prince Charming for myself.

The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

Published: June 18, 2013 by 47North

Horror/borrowed

It started sort of slow. A group of friends heading to a remote luxury cabin. Lots of talking. Two siblings, their friend, his new girlfriend. Blah blah. BOOOM!!!!

Then it got scary, It started to build. See it was not scary as others on that mountain died, but then it got close, and then it was too late. Wtf was out there! First shadows, then showing to be creepy humanlike beings that hunt the house that they now can not leave.

And it gets bloodier, and gore, and omg I am not going up a mountain or into the woods in winter. That is some scary stuff out there!

Also the end, omg, omg, omg.

SO yeah ended up liking it.

They only come when it snows, and nobody ever gets away.

A group of close friends gathers at a secluded cabin in the wintry mountains of Colorado for a final holiday hurrah. Instead, it may be their last stand. First a massive blizzard leaves them marooned. Then the more chilling realization: something is lurking in the woods, watching them, waiting...

Now a weekend of family, friends, and fun has turned into a test of love and loyalty in the face of inhuman horrors. The only hope for those huddled inside is to fight—tooth and nail, bullet and blade—for their lives. Otherwise, they'll end up like the monsters' other victims: bright pools of blood on glittering snow, screams lost in the vast mountains.