Mickey

I just read Comfort Me With Apples last night and was a bit disappointed. I’ve heard a lot of good things and I did like it a lot until the end when all the strangeness came together into a reveal… and it was just a bit too religious based for my liking. It was clever and the prose was beautiful but I was hoping for something else I guess.

I do Halloween reads all year! I also just really like horror in general so I tend to pick them up a lot. There are a lot of different subgenres of horror as well so it’s hard to recommend stuff without knowing your specific preferences, but here are some that I’ve read recently and liked.

If you want creepy occult you can try:

• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Mister Magic by Kiersten White

If you want creepy atmospheric:

• The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
• The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher

If you want messed up horror:

• Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman

If you want classic horror:

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

I haven’t played Outer Wilds but from what I know of it it should be similar. The Forgotten City is based on real world history though which was pretty interesting and it’s much more compact than what I’ve heard of Outer Wilds. It look me maybe ~7h to finish it fully, but can definitely be done faster too.

What a beautiful overachiever! I wouldn’t even be mad if it didn’t produce any fruit.

I played through The Forgotten City and really liked it! It’s a time looping puzzle game where you have to unravel the mystery of a strange city before every day it collapses into ruin. It really sucked me into the story and I could forgive a bit of the jankiness in the actual gameplay. The characters were all interesting and were very interconnected which made the whole thing feel quite alive. I didn’t love the ending (there are technically multiple but I managed to get the canon one on my play through), it was okay but a little out of nowhere, everything before that was good.

I started reading Dragonfired by J. Zachary Pike, which is the last of The Dark Profit Saga trilogy. The series is a pretty funny satire of the financial and stock markets placed into a standard fantasy world and it’s been executed quite well. The first book (Orconomics) was definitely the best in the series but I am glad to have the final conclusion after many years. I’ve only made it about 1/4 way in so far in the last book but it feels very on par with the rest so far.

Singer has all their manuals digitized on their site, looks like your model is included as well: Singer Manuals

Beautiful! Mine is growing super slow after a mealybug outbreak and some overly enthusiastic pruning… too many nooks to treat. But eventually I’ll have a bunch of rooted props.

Take a look at Dredge! It’s a creepy horror-ish game where you play as a fishing boat. There are some creepy elements at night but it’s fairly causal overall. I really loved the atmosphere and light story elements as well as the fun fishing games that is the majority of the gameplay.

Looks great! The sky gradient is very pretty and love the stars on top!

The September House sounds like it could be good! I also read Clay McLeod Chapman’s previous book, Ghost Eaters, which i liked so hopefully his new one will be as well.

Cute! I’ve been adding stickers to mine as well. If I’m going to be sitting behind it for hours it might as well look nice!