2020 – reading roundup and the Dust Lounge Book Awards

December 30, 2020December 20, 2020 Categories: Book Reviews · Books · ThoughtsTags: A man of shadows · Agustina Bazterrica · best books of 2020 · best books of the year · best reads of 2020 · Blacktop Wasteland · Chris Panatier · Chuck Palahniuk · Chuck Wendig · Consider This · Donald Ray Pollock · Earthlings · favourite books of the year · Grady Hendrix · Headcheese · jeff noon · Jess Hagemann · Juniper · My Best Friend’s Exorcism · Ross Jeffery · S.A. Cosby · Sayaka Murata · Stephen Graham Jones · tender is the flesh · The Devil All the Time · the memory police · the only good indians · The Phlebotomist · Wanderers · Yōko Ogawa1 Comment

Welcome to the 2020 reading roundup and book awards at the Dust Lounge. A mighty fine year for reading.

On reading: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

June 11, 2020June 4, 2020 Categories: Book Reviews · BooksTags: book review · Book Reviews · Chuck Wendig · dystopian fiction · horror fiction · on reading · pandemic fiction · WanderersLeave a comment

Chuck Wendig brings us a scarily prescient masterpiece, that’s sure to find its place in the classic novel lists of the future.

On writing reviews and on writing words

May 23, 2020 Categories: Book Reviews · Books · Thoughts · WritingTags: Afterland · Book Reviews · Chuck Wendig · Grady Hendrix · lauren beukes · negative reviews · streets · walking in tokyo · Wanderers · writing inspiration · writing reviews · writing wallpaperLeave a comment

On why I mostly talk about books I love, and on how new words are eeking out and what they’re eeking out to.