Sunday, October 18th, at 4:30 PM Pacific (Seattle/Tucson) — 7:30 PM Eastern (Montreal/Atlanta)
How has October flown so fast? Our Steampunk book chat is nearly upon us! This month, we’re discussion the deliciously atmospheric and spooky novel, Deadlands: Boneyard by Seanan McGuire, and Seanan has kindly agreed to join us for the conversation! With McGuire’s signature gift for evoking uncanny details and rich characters, this is a gripping story set against the world of a traveling circus in the Weird West. A perfect read ahead of Halloween!
Our monthly book chat is this Sunday, October 18th, at 4:30 PM Pacific (Seattle/Tucson) — 7:30 PM Eastern (Montreal/Atlanta). As always, I’ll host our conversation in our virtual tea parlour on zoom but you can also follow along or watch later on our YouTube channel. The zoom link will be released first on our Patreon and then available here 2 hours before our chat.
Bookshop.org Blurb:
Step right up to see the oddities and marvels of The Blackstone Family Circus and Travelling Wonder Show! Gasp at pit wasps the size of a man’s forearm. Beware the pumpkin-headed corn stalker, lest it plant its roots in you!
Annie Pearl is the keeper of oddities, the mistress of monsters. Her unique collection of creatures is one of the circus’s star attractions, drawing wide-eyed crowds at every small frontier town they visit. But Annie is also a woman running from her past . . . and the mother of a mute young daughter, Adeline, whom she will do anything to protect.
Hoping to fill its coffers before winter sets in, the circus steers its wagons to The Clearing, a remote community deep in the Oregon wilderness, surrounded by an ominous dark wood. Word is that a travelling show can turn a tidy profit at The Clearing, but there are whispers, too, of unexplained disappearances that afflict one out of every four shows that pass through the town.
The Clearing has it secrets, and so does Annie. And it may take everything she has to save her daughter—and the circus—from both.
From the twisted mind of Seanan McGuire comes a gripping tale of the Weird West, set on the haunted frontier of DEADLANDS, the award-winning game from Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
This is my happy reminder that you do not have to finish the book to join us for our discussion but there may be spoilers!
Happy reading,
~Madame
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