Matt Ramsey

Looks like unforeseen advantages to me.

She is so alert. Ready to protect her family from any threat.

Even though she is starving.

The best trap. The one that waits. Lulls you into a false sense of security.

And then one day…

Yeah, but remember when Obama wore that tan suit?

I hid it while he was distracted.

I’m going to cheat and list a few.

The Extra by Annie Neugebauer- unsettling story of a group discovering an extra person among them while camping

Snake-Eater by T Kingfisher- it’s T Kingfisher, of course it’s great.

The Art Spy by Michelle Young- Nonfiction about Rose Valland. Amazing story.

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I mean it kinda works. Since she only goes halfway in I have to pick her up and take her back in to close the door.

I think the hallway counts as outside in her book.

A reddish-brown dog lies on a bed, covered in a plethora of fluffy blankets.

New way the kiddos are protesting me going to work. Dandy has started following me into the hallway, doing a lap around me and then walking halfway back in. I think she’s trying to herd me back inside?

Spike is continuing his insistence that he doesn’t have enough blankets.

@onenerdyopinion’s February 2026 Wrap-Up Books: 29 Pages: 8,582 First Book: Immortelle by Catherine McCarthy Middle Book: Maeve Fly by CJ Leede Last Book: Clown In A Cornfield 3: The Church Of Frendo by Adam Cesare Average Book Length: 295 pages Average Time To Finish: 2 days Pie chart: 100% fiction Books by genre: Horror: 18 Thriller: 11 Fantasy: 10 LGBTQIA+: 4 Science Fiction: 3 Compared to January: Books- 33% decrease, Pages- 43% decrease Line chart tracking pages per day: large peak around 900 pages on the 28th and pretty consistent around 300-450 pages the rest of the month. Format Pie Chart: 86% Print, 14% Digital

Collage of book covers: Immortelle by Catherine McCarthy Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Listen To Your Sister by Neena Viel Our Winter Monster by Dennis Mahoney Good Boy by Neil McRobert Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk World War Z by Max Brooks Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by VE Schwab Snake-Eater by T Kingfisher Jaws by Peter Benchley Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom Agent To The Stars by John Scalzi Maeve Fly by CJ Leede Eric by Terry Pratchett (TP) Moving Pictures by TP Reaper Man by TP Mapping The Interior by Stephen Graham Jones Witches Abroad by TP Small Gods by TP Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone Falling by TJ Newman The Body by Bethany C Morrow Clown In A Cornfield by Adam Cesare (AC) Clown In A Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by AC Clown In A Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo by AC

Screen capture of a reading Challenge progress graph. Text reads: The Laydown Podcast 2026 Reading Challenge 74% Complete, 42/57 Prompts Done

Screen capture of a reading Challenge progress graph. Text reads: 2026 Discworld Readthrough 32% Complete, 13/41 Books Read

February- this month saw several migraine days and my reading total suffered from that.

An orange kitten lies in a plush basket connected to her kitten condo complex. She has one of her front legs extended in a little stretch.

A reddish-brown dog lies on a bed, tucked under a fluffy grey blanket.

Lazy Sunday.

They got some of the part without frosting (it was chocolate frosting).

This is not their first time helping me eat a donut.

A reddish-brown dog and an orange kitten, both of whom seem to have never been fed in their entire lives, plead that the photographer share even just a morsel of his donut, which is out of frame, with them.

Pictured, a dog and a kitten letting the photographer know that they would gladly help him eat his donut if he wanted them to.

Or
“Oh no, I have too much ice cream!”
Or
“I simply have too much money.”

These three sentences are all examples of ridiculous nonsense.

Look… some people feel awkward if they aren’t expressly invited in to your home.

And some of those people work overnight jobs.

And some of those people hiss at the Sun.

Not because they are vampires… but for other very valid reasons… which I will think of later.

An orange kitten lies snuggled into a plush grey basket connected to her kitten condo complex.

Dandy’s in her basket.

BOOK REVIEW CAME FROM NEVER LAND A NOVEL CYNTHIA PELAYO BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNING AUTHOR By divazura

It Came From Neverland isn't quite a retelling of Peter Pan-it's more of a haunting sequel. In this dark, psychological twist on the classic tale, we meet Wendy and her brothers, John and Michael, all grown up. The siblings are still reeling from the loss of their parents and the deep scars left by their time in Neverland. In Pelayo's version, Peter Pan isn't the innocent, mischievous boy we remember. Instead, he's a master manipulator, a figure of harm who subjected the children to both physical and psychological abuse during their time in Neverland. Pelayo fully embraces this darker interpretation of Peter, portraying him as an abuser whose hold on the children is far more insidious than anyone might expect. divazura

From the very first page, It Came From Neverland immerses readers in a thick atmosphere of dread. The writing is hauntingly beautiful, steeped in the kind of trauma that lingers long after the pages are turned. Wendy, traumatized by her past, desperately wants to forget her time in Neverland but, like all abusers, Peter always returns. This time, his target isn't Wendy, but the children she now teaches. The tension builds slowly, gradually shifting from unease to full-blown horror, until it finally erupts in a visceral explosion of rage, blood, and bone. If you're a fan of slow-burn terror that takes its time to seep into your bones, this is an absolute must-read. divazura

It Came From Neverland is available June 9

It’s a Dr Pepper competitor but very different taste profiles.

A can of Mr Pibb sitting on a stainless steel counter.

My Mountain Dew Baja Blast addiction is in jeopardy. They brought back Mr Pibb!

It’s her offering bowl. It’s the special bowl, just for her treats. It lives atop her Kitten Condo Complex.

Yep. That about sums it up.

There’s an update to this. Now when I put treats in her offering bowl she holds my hand to make sure I don’t steal them. It breaks my heart every time.

There’s also Dandy, Spike, Lamby & Lamby’s cousin Lamby.

Lamby’s other cousin Lamby is currently on vacation (in the cupboard).

An orange kitten and a reddish-brown dog lie next to disheveled, grey blanket covered lump on a bed. The kitten is engaged in climbing onto the lump.

I am the most popular person in my apartment.*

*when I have food

An orange kitten eats the last few crunchy kitten treats from a blue offering saucer.

I think I made a mistake. I was getting Dandy’s morning treats, and the shaker was extra generous with its shake today. So I put a couple of the crunchies back in the shaker. But Dandy looked at me like I just stole Christmas.

Am I a monster for putting them back?

I’ve heard that if they roll the toilet paper too tight on the tube it can spontaneously explode. I assume the same can happen with tissues if the box is stuffed too much.

I’m glad that you are safe and weren’t nearby when it happened.

I turn the lights off in the back room and rotate through my migraine caps. Making breakfast is the hard part.

A reddish-brown dog lies on bed, snuggled against a particularly disheveled looking lump. Both the dog and the lump are covered in a fluffy grey blanket.

An orange kitten lies on a bed, partially covered by a fluffy grey blanket.

The kiddos have me locked in place tonight. They are snuggling on both sides.

That’s on me. I’m not good at coming up with discussion points. I just made a forum post for reviews/final thoughts. Would love to hear what people thought about the book.