Mark Leslie (1)

This was a pretty good book about bookstores and libraries that are haunted. Nothing scary though within the pages as it was just general information about different bookstores and libraries around the world that are haunted. Some of the stories have pictures, but they were not very clear on the kindle.

There are quite a few stories within this book - 59 to be exact. I will just list what stories I really liked.
The Eerie Elevator, Ghosts in the Attic, The Rocking Chair Ghost, Spectres in the Stacks, The Portal, The Ghost of Harriet Haskell, The Many Lives of Carnegie Library, A Ghost Called Lola, The Curse of Old Lady Gray, Things That Go Ding In the Night, The White Lady of the Haunted Bookshop, A Treasure of Infinite Haunts, and The Restless Librarian. The other stories were good, but I liked those listed above the best. Three stars for this one.… (más)

It's werewolf story, so who needs a plot? but even on that basis this is ridiculously thin. It's 180 pages of emo-werewolf before anything happens. The remaining 100 pages don't progress matters in any way.

I've not read the first book in the series, but there's what feels like sufficient re-cap to get the gist: Michael was attacked somewhere in Canada and suffers uncontrolled lycanthropy after sunset whenever the moon is 80% full, so for about 10 nights a month. He's got used to this and is making a successful living as a writer. When he came clean to a previous girlfriend she dumped him for his years of evasions and he's been unable to cope since. Nearly all of this book is him yearning/moralising/flirting/regretting with random women he comes across which is creepy.

He flies out to LA (carefulyl avoiding his trigger periods) to be part of the film being made of one of his books. At no time does any werewolf action happen instead he mopes around a lot goes to bars, meets several women who fall at his feet before he picks one of them, moans some more, beats up some right wingers without going doggy and then comes home.

Do not bother.… (más)

Read for #Spookathon challenge spooky word in the title: Haunted.

This is a book of "real" ghost stories mostly set in various care facilities in Canada, with a few of the more famous American ones thrown in. I liked that when able the authors actually went to the facilities to take tours and see the actual places where the sightings supposedly happened. My favorite thing about the book is that most of the stories were new to me which is a bit strange since I love books like this and have read so many of them. I really recommend this book if you're interested in the Paranormal.… (más)