Finished reading Gerardo Sámano Córdova's "Monstrilio."
https://amzn.to/40O8bmh
📖🧒🫁
Well, this was one weird but also wonderfully heart-wrenching #Fable-like story about grief and parenting and finding a new life in the ashes of the old.
#books #reading

If there's one person who always saves the world in stories, it's grandma. But while she's at it again in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's new novel "Candelaria," there's actually more to this story, as Lozada-Oliva explains in this exclusive interview.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-candelaria-author-melissa-lozada-oliva/
📖👵🇬🇹
. . . . . . . . . . .
#MelissaLozadaOliva #MelissaLozadaOlivaInterview #MelissaLozadaOlivaCandelaria #MelissaLozadaOlivaCandelariaInterview #Books #Reading #AuthorInterview #AuthorInterviews

And now, for those who don't play well with others, but still want to beat people to a bloody pulp, here's the link to my single-player review of "Mortal Kombat 1."
https://paulsemel.com/mortal-kombat-1-single-player-review/
🎮👊🦶
. . . . . . . . . .
#MortalKombat1 #MortalKombat1Review #VideoGames #MortalKombat1SinglePlayerReview #MortalKombat #MortalKombat1XboxSeriesX #MortalKombat1XboxSeriesS #MortalKombat1PlayStation5 #MortalKombat1PS5 #MortalKombat1Switch #MortalKombat1PC #MK1 #MK1Review #MK1SinglePlayerReview

Started reading Gerardo Sámano Córdova's "Monstrilio."
https://amzn.to/40O8bmh
📖🧒🫁
I've never had a kid, let alone lost one, but this death of child dark #Fable-like story is really getting to me.
#books #reading

Finished reading Stark Holborn's "Hel's Eight."
https://amzn.to/3qwHd5h
📖🪐🩹
Brutal ... but in such a cool way.
#books #reading #SciFi #ScienceFiction

Started reading Elaine Kahn's "Women In Public: Poems."
https://amzn.to/3nLwymb
📖🖊️
So far, this is as interesting and unflinching as the book of hers I read a few months ago.
#books #reading #poems #poetry

Read Kate Baer's "I Hope This Finds You Well" tonight.
https://amzn.to/3AWobY2
📖🖊️
Wouldn't have bought this had I know they were 1 line poems in response to online comments. Hence why I read it all tonight; to get it out of the way.
#books #reading #poems #poetry

Finished reading Tongo Eisen-Martin's "Someone's Dead Already: Poems."
https://amzn.to/401PQRL
📖🪦
Always encouraging when someone's early #poetry is as good as their newer #poems.
#books #reading

Finished reading the #ShortStory collection "The Best Of Edward M. Lerner"
https://amzn.to/3OUE7Q4
📖🚀👽
A mixed bag, to be sure, but more good than bad. Or meh.
#books #reading #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShortStories

In Nghi Vo's new fantasy novella "Mammoths At The Gates" — the latest installment of her "Singing Hills Cycle" — the historian cleric Chih is going home for the first time in years, only to find not everything is as they left it. What does that mean? You'll have to read this exclusive Q&A to find out.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-mammoths-at-the-gates-author-nghi-vo/
📖🦣
. . . . . . . . . . . .
#NghiVo #NghiVoInterview #NghiVoMammothsAtTheGates #NghiVoMammothsAtTheGatesInterview #NghiVoTheSingingHillsCycle #Fantasy #FantasyBookSeries

Finished reading Chuck Palahniuk's "Not Forever But For Now."
https://amzn.to/3sSxBDm
📖🧐🔪🩸
Though interesting, it wasn’t as compelling as his best books; didn’t tear through this one. Eh, whatever.
#books #reading

Books are okay, I guess. But they don't do anything. They just kind of sit there, and make you do all the work. No so for gamebooks, which are more interactive. Which is what you get from Jonathan Green's superheroic new gamebook "Moon Knight: Age Of Anubis." For more, check out this exclusive interview.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-moon-knight-age-of-anubis-author-jonathan-green/
📖🌙
. . . . . . .
#JonathanGreen #JonathanGreenInterview #JonathanGreenMoonKnightAgeOfAnubis #JonathanGreenMoonKnightAgeOfAnubisInterview #MoonKnight #MultiverseMissions

The #SciFi #SpaceOpera action-RPG "Starfield" is one of the best games of the year. But the good people at Bethesda Game Studios also deserve credit for doing some cool things in it no one else does (usually). Here are 4 Things I Applaud "Starfield" For Including (And 1 I Wish They Had).
https://paulsemel.com/4-things-i-applaud-starfield-for-including-and-1-i-wish-they-had/
🎮🪐🚀
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
#Starfield #gaming #games #VideoGames #StarfieldGame #ScienceFiction #StarfieldXboxSeriesX #StarfieldXboxSeriesS #StarfieldXboxSeriesXS #StarfieldPC

Started reading Chuck Palahniuk's "Not Forever But For Now."
https://amzn.to/3sSxBDm
📖🧐🔪🩸
Expected this to be fucked up, just not "'Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good' if Megadeth were a posh string quartet at a society function" fucked up.
#books #reading

Read S.L. Coney's "Wild Spaces" tonight.
https://amzn.to/3OLJCTp
📖👦🐶🐙
Even though I knew something bad was going to happen (thank you, ominous vibe), I was still gripped by this freaky #CosmicHorror boy and his dog(!) story.
#books #reading #fantasy #DarkFantasy

Started reading Tongo Eisen-Martin's "Someone's Dead Already: Poems."
https://amzn.to/401PQRL
📖🪦
Excited to dig into this early collection of his #poems.
#books #reading #poetry

Finished reading Matt Wallace's "Savage Crowns: Book Three Of The Savage Rebellion Trilogy."
https://amzn.to/43Qy869
📖⚔️
An engaging end to this exciting but often dark #fantasy epic..
#books #reading

Finished reading Cynthia Cruz's "How The End Begins: Poems."
https://amzn.to/3NT7C70
📖🖊️
Excellent, especially her more impressionistic #poems.
#books #reading #poetry

Started reading Matt Wallace's "Savage Crowns: Book Three Of The Savage Rebellion Trilogy."
https://amzn.to/43Qy869
📖⚔️
Curious (and excited) to see how this #fantasy saga ends.
#books #reading

Finished reading Matt Wallace's "Savage Bounty: Book Two Of The Savage Rebellion Trilogy."
https://amzn.to/43KmoSG
📖⚔️
Solid but also rather unexpected middle part to this #fantasy trilogy. And now, the conclusion...
#books #reading