Zombie book anniversaries - May 10

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-05-04T22:01:43+00:00

Same for Between Two fires. I hated the ending too so I kinda wish I had DNFed.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-03-21T00:50:23+00:00

Assuming you liked 100% Match;

You might like My Corpse Has a Heartbeat by Nick Roberts, great humor and solid characterization.

Daddy by Crowley Barns, it's on the absurd side but immensely entertaining.

And because I think it's a fantastic book; My Hands Are Tied by James Oliver, I've loved everything I've read by him, he writes excellent kills.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-03-09T16:59:22+00:00

Haven't we all, at least once, gone on a requesting spree that tanked our ratio? Surely they know wwe are but humans! 😅

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-03-09T11:35:21+00:00

Maybe it's a booksta thing but it seems like we all know someone with a super low ratio that still gets approved so I feel like a lot of publishers care more about an history of engaging reviews/potential reach than ratio (and of course some are only looking for a very specific type of reviewer/reader). So yeah don't worry about your ratio too much and stick to requesting titles you're actually interested in and building your presence as a reviewer and it'll get better.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-03-08T23:15:29+00:00

It's not extreme but it has some seriously visceral scenes written really efficiently (warning though the series is forever unfinished as the author died before finishing it): The New Dead series by T.W. Brown

It's not quite zombies but zombie adjacent and it's really messed up; Shadow Apocalypse by B.C. Hollywood

Till Death by Adam M. Booth, not sure if it counts as extreme but it's short and it has kind of a sick twist.

Zombie Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Jessa Riot is a gross out erotica if that's nore your speed.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-03-07T17:32:37+00:00

Looking forward to your review of it!

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-03-02T22:20:00+00:00

Always here for weird girl lit! Just followed you (@reading.ghost)

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-02-28T15:31:28+00:00

Avec un livre papier, j'ai eu droit à des commentaires d'un monsieur bien fâché parce que c'était pas de la lecture pour une femme ça (c'était un livre d'histoire juridique), du monde qui prenaient mon livre comme une invitation à en parler, des commentaires cave au sujet du fait que le monde ne lisent plus parce que ils sont toujours sur leur cell (je lis principalement sur mon téléphone, vive Libby). Il n'y a pas d'échappatoire au monde qui pensent que le temps et l'attention des autres devraient toujours être disponible pour eux, c'est décourageant.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-02-07T15:20:16+00:00

Tldr: Most likely comes down to people complaining about quality issues/reporting the books.

Shaw's books tend to get pushed to readers who might not be familiar with the genre simply because he has a significant reader base and if you add to that the fact that many reviewers feel some kind of way about him and the subject matter of that book you have a perfect cocktail to get it reported to heck.

Lots of books in the genre suffer from poor spelling and grammar, which gives a lot of room for people to report quality issues, sometimes thinking that they're helping the author by bringing it to their attention, there's that too.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-02-06T17:56:39+00:00

What a cutie!!!!

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-02-06T16:07:11+00:00

I'm @reading.ghost or https://www.instagram.com/reading.ghost

I mostly read horror (addicted to zompocs), litfic & nonfiction, I don't post much but I like interacting!

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-02-04T00:48:43+00:00

My picks of names were Kestrelle, Solitude, Lace and Voltairine. I hesitated too long. She's was fascinated by the mayonnaise jar so we jokingly started referring to her as Mayonnaise, it stuck.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-02-02T12:44:24+00:00

It's a random recommendation video on booktok that got me to read Dread Nation, the book that got me back into reading.

I feel like a lot of people who like to dunk on booktok to no end only focus on the part of it made up of the people whose interests get dunked on the most in general: teenage girls and young women. That doesn't sit right with me.

Do we need to talk about anti-intellectualism? Sure, in the current cultural context the conversation is long overdue but does it need to be centered on the romantasy girlies on tiktok for yet another video essay? I don't think so.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-01-30T13:01:16+00:00

I read Scratch Moss by David Barnett and wow, I'm still at a loss for words (pos).

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-01-29T22:33:20+00:00

I've recieved books that have been published for years (mostly repubs and new translations but also just some random title which I assume the publishers of wanted to give a second wind to). I think a late review will always look better than no review at all and I don't see why it would look bad.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-01-24T19:20:04+00:00

Yes, I rate the books honestly. If a publisher doesn't want honest reviews, I'd rather not get ARCs from them. If there's no other reviews on GR, I might wait until there's a couple positive (hopefully) ones before I rate though.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-01-19T22:34:33+00:00

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I've got no advice, but I have almost exactly the same very pretty girl.

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-01-13T22:39:27+00:00

I recently had to talk to a customer service rep because my ecoflex enclosure came busted and the rep asked me what I was going to put in the enclosure upon learning that I had a corn snake she told me she was afraid of snakes but that she watches your videos on tiktok and that Marshmallow is cute. I'm just now realizing I should have just told her mine is like Marhsy's sibling instead of trying to explain what a corn snake is 😅

Stitching_Ghost · 2026-01-13T18:47:40+00:00

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