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I'll leave a link to it down there in the doobly-doo if you want to check it out. But we went out thrifting to celebrate and I picked up several awesome sounding books and books that I haven't, well that I'd been looking for for a while but I just hadn't come across. Also I have two books that were sent to me for review for Turner Publishing that I'm super hyped about but let's just go ahead and jump into it. The first one I have today is Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. I'm a massive fan of Cormac McCarthy. I have absolutely no issue with the fact that he doesn't use quotation marks. I know some of you do and that's fine but you're missing out on some fantastic stories. This one is about falsely, oh wait, hang on, falsely accused of rape. Lester Ballard, a violent dispossessed man who haunts the hill country of east Tennessee, is released from jail and allowed to roam at will praying on the population with his strange lusts. This one has been, I've been told that it's more of a horror novel, more along the lines of like Blood Meridian, more so than, you know, No Country for Old Men and the Road which is more post-apocalyptic fiction. I guess it had some horror but this is one of the few of his that I have not read. I'm looking forward to getting into it. Next up is a book from an author that I have been wanting to read forever. I've just never got around to and that's Walter Mosley. The book is 47 and I picked this one up specifically because of the description and you know I normally don't read descriptions but the reason why I read this one is because I didn't want to read any of his detective fiction. I wanted to read something else he'd done and this one is the story you are about to read concerns certain events that occurred in the early days of my life. It all happened over 170 years ago. I'm not sure if it's a vampire thing or what, I don't know but for many of you it might sound like a tall tale because I'm no older today than I was back in the year 1832 but this is no whopper I'm telling you. This is a story about my boyhood as a slave and my fated encounter with the amazing tall John from beyond Africa who could read dreams, fly between galaxies and make friends with any animal no matter how wild. This sounds amazing. I know he has a very sparse noir type style and I love stuff like that. Again I'm not super big into crime fiction so if you guys want to recommend me any other Mosley's that I might like that aren't you know his detective stuff or you know it can just be dark and gritty but I try to stay away from anything involving detectives, PIs, any of that stuff but also if you'd like to try to talk me into reading you know what was it Deep Blue Sea or Devil in a blue dress something like that. If you want to try and talk me into his detective fiction or PI fiction whatever it is you can do that down there in the doobly-doo. Next up is a book that I have read three times so far but I only listen to it. A huge fan of Neil Gaiman and this is one of his most beautiful pieces The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I've never had a physical copy of this one when it first came out. I remember being kind of upset because it was being marketed as a novel. It is definitely a novella. This one has huge type and it's only like a hundred and some pages hang on let me see here. I know the audiobooks only like three hours long yeah it's 181 pages and the type is super big and they were charging $27 for this when it first came out and I don't care how much I like the only person that I'm willing to do that with is Stephen King and usually I can still get it cheaper on Amazon. This one I couldn't so I was real happy to pick this one up. Next one is from an author that I reviewed just recently to Nana Reeve Do. I found The Good House which has a really really ominous fantastic cover. I'm going to be reading her books in order of publication so it's going to be a while before I get to this one. I think this is one of her newer books. I could be wrong about that I'm not going to waste your time looking at the the date that it was published but this is the this is the one that everybody seems to really really love. They talk about it quite a bit especially on book twitter books to gram all that stuff booktubes even really popular. I'm excited to get into this one mainly because I'm hoping it's another family story. I refuse to read the description of this one because I want to go in blind just like I did with the between. Now next up I believe this one should already be up on the channel. The review for this one I read it ages ago but it's a perfect read for this time of year so I went ahead and got the the paper back because I found it. I've been looking forward forever. This is another one of those books that is usually really really overpriced and that's uh well it's called Let the Right One In by John Edvide Lindquist. I think I'm pronouncing that right but the this is the movie tie and cover for the American version of the movie which is just as good in my opinion as the original the original film. I think it's Swedish. I could be wrong but I think it's Swedish and Matt Reeves directed this one. It's just a really good movie but yeah I've been looking for a copy of this one forever and I finally found one. It was only $3.99 at Goodwill. I was shocked. Now on to the books that I got for review. Turner Publishing who published Matthew Lyons last book. I can't remember the title of it right now. I'm sorry but it's a I absolutely loved it. It was one of my favorite books of last year. It's a very not obscure title but it's one of those ones that's really easy to to forget for some reason for me. But Matthew Lyons I absolutely loved his debut but we're going to talk about that in a second. First off they sent me spontaneous human combustion by Richard Thomas. I know of Richard Thomas. I follow him on Twitter. He follows me. We've never had any interactions but I've always wanted to read his book and I figure his work and I figure this is a good place to start. This is a short story collection and the cover is absolutely amazing. Look at that. It's a werewolf and a person coming apart. Anyways it's got a blur from Chuck Pollinick that says in range alone Richard Thomas is boundless. He is lovecraft. He is Bradbury. He is gaming. That's some high high praise. I'm just going to give you a brief bit and said in this new collection Richard Thomas has crafted 15 stories that push the boundaries of dark fiction in an intoxicating piercing blend of fantasy science fiction and horror. I'm going to read one or two of the story descriptions. A poker game yields a strange prize that haunts one man. His game of chance now turned into a life or death coin flip. That sounds awesome. Another one that piqued my interest was a father and son work slave labor in a brand new world run by aliens and mount a rebellion that may end up freeing them all. These are descriptions of what sound like novels to me. I'm very interested to see how he pulls off big stories in such a small space. And lastly we have Matthew Lyons new one. A black and endless sky. I'm trying to get the glare out of the way. Look at that man. That is amazing. I love it. I love the cover. But yeah his first book. Let me go ahead and look up since I couldn't remember what it was. Oh it doesn't have his. It doesn't have the his last book. There's no list at the beginning. You know how there normally is about what they published before. Oh man I wish I remembered that one. I know I haven't sitting around here anyways but I'm not going to hold you guys up too long because it's really hot out in the office. Very well it's not uncharacteristic but it is it is hotter than it normally is around this time of year even though it is warm around here in October. But anyways if you want to share any of your book hauls with me you can type them down there in the doobly-doo. Please note that if you try to link me to videos of yours it's YouTube is going to block it. So if you want to hit me up on Twitter and share your videos I'd love to see them. Or if you just want to list your stuff down there in the doobly-doo I would I love I love to see book hauls. I love to read book hauls because it tells me so much about people um and it it's it's a great way to break the ice and start a discussion. But until next time I have been E. You have been U. This has been another book haul and another episode of 31 Days of Halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!