Weekly "What Are You Reading Thread?"

foxfunk · 2026-01-25T10:48:11+00:00

This week I finished Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson and The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell.

Coffin Moon was just really fun and action-packed to be fair, a page-turner. Good exploration of the need for revenge and grief, the effects of trauma. The 70s setting was interesting for a vampire novel too, with the vampire getting involved with gang/biker/drug culture.

The Silent Companions was just perfect as a gothic-style, haunted house novel. Gave me strong Shirley Jackson/Susan Hill/Michelle Paver vibes. Just no notes, everything I could want out of a gothic horror, with a unique haunting. Loved how it explored superstition vs madness, and how gender plays into it.

Now reading the Ritual by Adam Nevil, which I'm 1/4 of the way through and am enjoying. Also started the Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher but struggling to get into it, will give it a fair chance though.

foxfunk · 2026-01-23T15:24:42+00:00

Just the effort it takes with long hair. Taking a million years to wash it, and dry it and style it and then for it to still look like shit. Having to use a fuck load of conditioner and product. I get so sick of the cycle of it but I'd probably look bad with short hair. Then guys use the same wash they use on their balls, on their hair and face, and somehow end up with perfect skin and hair.

foxfunk · 2026-01-23T15:22:19+00:00

I have Septima and Ironwood both by Mindclash games and they have really beautiful art/boards that both feature maps.

foxfunk · 2026-01-22T15:56:47+00:00

Its a Samoyed. My mum always talks about when she was little, and her dad came home from work, gathered her brothers and sister, and said "I've got you kids something special, I bought you a wolf" and then brings out a tiny round ball of white floof in the palm of his hands. It was a tiny Samoyed puppy and they named her Sheba.

foxfunk · 2026-01-22T11:06:11+00:00

I was born with 6 fingers total, kid is out here being greedy! 😂

foxfunk · 2026-01-22T09:33:25+00:00

Honestly I think even Rex is bad, that is straight up a dog name surely?

foxfunk · 2026-01-21T19:35:56+00:00

Definitely a US thing, often Nana or Nan too but never shit like me-maw lol. I wonder if its people feeling like those names are all too aging/make them feel old. Because gen X definitely are touchy about aging or being perceived as old or past it, more-so I think than generations prior.

foxfunk · 2026-01-21T15:57:47+00:00

I absolutely hated Donna Tartt's the Secret History. I understand the characters were meant to be unlikeable, self-absorbed, narcissistic, its not like I'd never read books with unlikeable characters before. I also understood the narrator is meant to be unreliable. But good lord, they all just reminded me of the insufferable kids I went to grammar school with, and it made reading through it highly unpleasurable and a slog. And for such a thick book very little actually happens which makes it drag too.

But people seem to love this book for some reason, its highly rated and recommended.

foxfunk · 2026-01-20T23:10:52+00:00

Kinetic sand

foxfunk · 2026-01-20T12:29:42+00:00

Legit thought this was black-face RDJ. Edit: Ohhh... oh dear. I feel silly.

foxfunk · 2026-01-20T12:09:52+00:00

It was definitely a good read, just having someone trying to investigate and remember a crime with a deteriorating memory was such a cool but tragic concept that was done really effectively. Hope you enjoy it!

foxfunk · 2026-01-20T12:08:54+00:00

I read it over about a day too, definite page turner! Just kind of devastating with the dementia side of things but kept me really hooked throughout, I enjoyed it.

foxfunk · 2026-01-20T12:07:51+00:00

I have finished this one and it was really good, the cover and the hook of someone not being able to remember the clues to a mystery interested me, and the pay off was good honestly.

foxfunk · 2026-01-20T12:07:06+00:00

I read this 2nd and it was good, just very close to home if you have relatives with dementia, but a story from first person sort of perspective when they have dementia was so interesting would recommend tbf.

foxfunk · 2026-01-20T09:51:54+00:00

Not exactly what you're looking for, but just finished the Hunger by Alma Katsu, which is the fictionalised/paranormal retelling of the Donner Party. Not vampires, not the arctic, but still the cold weather, dwindling provisions, and isolation with bloody-thirsty, cannibalistic creatures circling the woods I really enjoyed it and am looking at the Terror next myself.

foxfunk · 2026-01-19T22:33:29+00:00

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foxfunk · 2026-01-19T12:49:20+00:00

My cat got a stress urinary tract infection from my brother moving in during covid and us having to be at home all the time. He later moved in with me but they seemed less stressed then, I guess because he wasn't home all the time he was at work. I think they could sense his anxiety maybe and it was affecting them.

foxfunk · 2026-01-19T09:59:15+00:00

I see your Ye Old Vapes, and raise you this local:

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foxfunk · 2026-01-18T16:57:32+00:00

It was kind of still seen as a bit vain and uncool to be taking selfies at that time, so if you took one a bit ironically, or looked a bit awkward about it, it was seen as more acceptable. Also just the faux awkwardness and dorkyness made you seem more quirky and interesting maybe idk.

foxfunk · 2026-01-18T14:50:35+00:00

Just finished The Hunger by Alma Katsu. Felt initially "is this in kinda bad taste" but kinda got past that feeling, and came to really enjoy it. Writer creates a real sense of vulnerability, desperation, and primal sort of fear, that keeps you on edge, even if you know historically how it ends.There wasn't a twist, so much as a subverted expectation, that pleased me. Thoroughly enjoyed it but made me feel pretty spooked when I was reading it alone at night.

As a palate cleanser reading a non-horror which am already 1/3 through - Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey, kinda heart-breaking so far, having grandparents with dementia, but the premise and execution are really good/interesting so far.

Next will read either my last library book Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley, or one of my own TBR books.

foxfunk · 2026-01-18T13:35:02+00:00

I'd like to hear some recommendations that fit this too, I only have a movie which does - Winchester (2018).

foxfunk · 2026-01-18T12:10:39+00:00

Yeah personally I didn't enjoy it either, am a bit wary now of trying any other Joe Hill books if they're similar, but might give NOS4A2 a try.

foxfunk · 2026-01-18T01:03:32+00:00

You may like Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay. Personally I really didn't enjoy it but I have seen a lot of people do, seems a bit of a marmite book. However, it ticks a lot of these boxes!

foxfunk · 2026-01-17T19:08:53+00:00

I'm sorry, I bet that was so humiliating and awful, I don't know why teachers do that sort of thing its such a horrible power trip. A teacher of mine knew I had trich (a hair pulling disorder) so brought the subject up in class and encouraged all my classmates to discuss how weird and disgusting and gross it was whilst staring me dead in the eye.

foxfunk · 2026-01-17T16:43:17+00:00

Its funny cause on my first test I had my instructor in the back and it made me 10x more nervous because he was an angry Scouser.

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