Library Loot October 27 to November 2

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week.

And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries!



This week saw my first foray into borrowing and downloading audiobooks from the Yarra Plenty Regional Library, my first choice for reasons of file size as much as subject matter is

It's narrated by Wayne June who has a voice like he's swallowed razor blades with a scotch chaser. 
















My other find for the week was an interlibrary loan from my local community library; Stephen King’s, On Writing.

Up and Coming Reviews

This is just a heads up of up and coming reviews.  I registered at Netgalley and requested two titles for review.  The first of these is:


The Best American Mystery Stories 2010, Edited by Lee Childs.   It looks to be a good collection, though I note that the contributions are mostly male.

The second is


Future Minds by Richard Watson.  This appears to be a book on trends drawn together around the theme of technology's influence on young and thus future minds.  I'll probably cross post this on my other blog as well.  My intention is to view with a skeptical eye.




The final title is Shaken by JA Konrath.  I received this ebook for taking part in Joe's latest book marketing experiment.  He's experimenting again with this title, giving the reader the option of reading it in traditional linear/chronological format or  in a non linear format - something that an author can really only achieve with the freedom of having no page length restrictions.


I have also had three separate requests from authors to review their work.  So I think I might have to draft a review policy to give authors some guidelines on whether or not I am likely to review their work.

Horrifying Reads

By which I mean scary.

I have only ever read one book that I have had a physical gut wrenching reaction to - A manual written by evangelical Christians for exorcising the mentally ill.  Even that didn't scare me, just made me ill.

I am reading quite a bit of horror at the moment, and while some of it is truly good writing, it's not scaring me.

I want your recommendations for horror that will scare me witless.  Give me the best book that you have read that's made you want to walk to the bedroom with the light on.