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Updated #LibraryThing for September and October.You can see the #books I've #read since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of the months:

📖 Evenmere Tales and other stories by James Stoddard

🏫 Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

⚠️ Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright

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Updated #LibraryThing for August. You can see the #books I've #read since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of August

💰 Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike

🦗 The Swarm by Andy Marino

🃏 The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

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‘The End of the World’ review: Stephen King’s world explored | AP News

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows “The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand” (Simon & Schuster via AP)

By  ROB MERRILL Updated 6:29 AM PDT, August 18, 2025

Stephen King’s “The Stand,” originally published in 1978, is beloved by his “Constant Readers,” but has never really made a leap off the page. Two TV miniseries in 1994 and 2020 both flopped, but while fans wait to see what happens with a movie adaptation in development, they can turn instead to “The End of the World As We Know It,” a collection of 34 short stories set in the world King created.

King himself blessed the project (he wrote the introduction) and the nearly 800-page collection was edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene, both accomplished writers of fantasy and horror books, comics and graphic novels. The stories are written by a few authors you might recognize (Richard Chizmar, Joe R. Lansdale, Caroline Kepnes, Meg Gardiner) and many you won’t. What they all have in common is a true affection for the world of “The Stand.” All are set either during or after the events of King’s novel, which tells an epic story of good vs. evil following a super-flu that kills more than 99% of people on earth.

There’s one featuring astronauts aboard a stranded Space Shuttle, suddenly without a Mission Control to guide them home. There’s another told from the point of view of an African Painted Dog, no longer contained in his zoo enclosure and bewildered by the smell of rotten human meat everywhere. They’re not all absurd, though. There’s real heart in a lot of them, like “Came the Last Night of Sadness” by Catherynne M. Valente, which introduces readers to Fern Ramsey, a teenager born after the events of “The Stand,” who has learned “You can do fine as long as you know how to read and have a knife, a map, a fishing pole and a bicycle — as long as you know how to fix the last two.” A great many reference either Mother Abagail or Randall Flagg, the two characters representing good and evil in “The Stand.”

Editor’s Note: Below is a video of the opening scene of “Independence Day,” where the soundtrack plays the R.E.M. song. Enjoy! The book looks good; I signed up for a copy from my local library.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krGUmSN82UE

Below is an image of my entry for “The Stand” in my LibraryThing book catalog. See more at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/drweb

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Updated #LibraryThing for June. You can see the #books I've #read since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of the month:

 🌊 Dead Water by C.A. Fletcher

⛪️ Revelator by Daryl Gregory

🥶 Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling

🎨 It Rides a Pale Horse

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Updated #LibraryThing for May. You can see the #books I've #read since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of May

🦠How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

📡 Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

🧙‍♂️Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey

📒 The Book that Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence

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Updated #LibraryThing for Feb/March/April. You can see the #books I've #read since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of Feb/March/April

⚠️ I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin

💬We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory

🐑 When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory

🪦 The Fantasy Worlds of Peter S. Beagle

🔺️Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky

🏚 The False House by James Stoddard

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Looking for something to read? Here's an overview of recently passed author Jules Feiffer and his books on LibraryThing.

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https://www.librarything.com/author/feifferjules

Updated #LibraryThing for January. You can see the #books I've #read since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of the month:

🐕 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher

👄 Familiar by Jeremy C. Shipp

♾️ The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

⚔️ The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

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I took an inordinate amount of time combing through #LibraryThing for my best of 2024 list. You can see the #books I've #read since I started tracking at https://www.librarything.com/catalog/marctic

Best of the Year:

1. Lords of Creation by Adrian Tchaikovsky

2. High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

3. Invisible Cities by Italo Caluno

4. The Book that Broke the World by Mark Lawrence

5. Inversions by Iain M. Banks

6. Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan

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I just finished reading and reviewing The Paris Express: A Novel by Emma Donoghue. If you're a fan of historical fiction (1895, France), I highly recommend it. My review is on #LibraryThing https://www.librarything.com/work/32466826/reviews/279900778

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