the book of elsewhere

Ch 1 prologue

There's a group of armed men.  They get blown up by a suicide bomber.

Only named character is ulafson.

There's a shadowy figure that's watching all this.  He's so tired.

Ch 2 the doctors story pg 8

The doctor is dying.  Saddest part is his medicine smells so bad his dog won't go near him.  He reminisces about an old patient he had.  Doctor is a psychiatrist. The patient was a soldier and described killing and being killed and coming back and doing it all over again.

Wonder if this is ulafson.

Ch 3 signs of life pg 11

Two characters investigating the sight of a violent scene where a bunch of people died in the hidden back rooms of a machine shop.

Characters are named B and keever.  B is the main character and mentions Ulafson in his internal monologue.

In talking about the scene there's a report from above that there are life signs.  B starts digging through The bodies and tries to find the live people.  Keever tells b the whole site is unstable and they should gtfo and specifically uses the phrase "some of us can die" which makes me think b is like the doctors patient that I think is Olafson in that he can be brought back after dying and keever is not.

They find the alive guy.  His name is Thakka.  When they try to get him to talk, he only talks about his dog.

Ch 4 water ph 23

This is fun backstory about our immortal friend.  He's born, he's Hella violent until he dies.  Then he's born again.  You know how Davy crocket killed a bear when he was 3?  This guy did it before he was 1.he killed a leviathan.  Then the crew of that ship abandoned him.  He killed an entire city.  When he comes back this time he's hatched from an egg underwater and has to swim to the surface. 

This imortal warrior is named Unute.

Ch 5 new dark pg 34

B is Unute.  Something about this whole thakka situation has upset him and he has gone awol.  This is not new.  He does this.  The government is OK with it.  When you've got an immortal warrior on your side you let things slide.

Another fun thing about the Thakka situation is that technically he was dead before B went down there and then he came back to life.  Maybe immortality is infectious.

B comes back with some dead thing with hooves.

the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires.

Prologue to ch 11

Authors note.  Pg 8

This author also wrote my best friends exorcism. That book is about children.  This book is about grown ass adults.  This I Dracula vs your mom.  Spoiler alert, Dracula doesn't stand a chance.

Prologue pg 10

Blood.  This book ends in it.  All of life starts with it.  All vampire books have blood.  As an added bonus this book also has an unremarkable group of house wives.  House wives that are gonna kill vampire(s). 

Ch1 pg 14

Patricia Campbell is part of a monthly book  club. I get the impression that it's big.  One person talks about the book while everyone else is just the audience. Today she's the talker .  90 minutes to book club and she hasn't read the book.  

Marjorie is the dictator of book club.  She has a fake democratic process by which she claims to have never heard of any book anyone else suggests and she presents 13 books she likes to vote on.

Patricia goes to book club even though she didn't read the book.  She tries to make some stuff up but Marjorie sees through it pretty quickly. But it turns out nobody read the book.

While leaving kitty shrugs invites her to a true crime book club.

Ch 2 pg 24

Kitty stops by Patricia's house and there's a thing with Patricia's daughter and it shows us that kitty is cool.  So Patricia reads the book she didnt want to in three days and goes to kitty's book club.

It's fun, they're having fun.  Even though some of them have to lie to their shitty husband's.

Patricia's mother in law comes to live with them and it sucks.  But the troops rally and it's not so bad.

Ch 3 pg 40

They chitchat about the neighborhood. The most interesting part is there's a creepy van.

Ch 4 pg 48

Patriis attacked by old mrs savage taking out the trash.

Ch 5 pg 56

People in a small town talk a lot and fast.  Who needs the news when you've got a small town gossip.  The lady that bit off Patricia`s ear, she died.

Ch 6 pg 64

Patricia goes to the lady that bit her ear off's house to bring her nephew a casserole.   She finds him in his bedroom just lying there.  Yes not breathing.  She does CPR, she used to be a nurse.  He gets up and says GTFO.  She does.  He must be a vampire. 

Ch 7 pg 70

The vampire brings back Patricia's dish.  Mom calls him hoyt cause I guess that's the name he used when he was a vampire back in her day.

Ch 8

Patricia is helping vampire do all sorts of things like pay his water bill and change it to his name and open a bank account and she tells him about book club.

Ch 9 pg 94

Vampire comes to book club at Patricia's house and mom calls him hoyt again.  

Ch 10 pg 104

The vsmpire tries to kill mom but it doesn't work out 

Ch 11

Mom tells Patricia the story of hoyt pickens.  She starts by saying he killed her daddy.  He came down from the north and convinced her dad to invest more in his moonshine side hustle.  Also around the time kids go missing.  Hoyt pickens blames a black man and they bury him alive under the peach tree.  Then Hoyt disappears and every thing goes bad.

Ch 12

.Patricia goes to a party.

The vampire attacks mom with rats.

It's truly horrifying.

Also if you see her son, punch him in the face.

Ch 13 pg 133

Patricia and kitty go visit miss green. Fun revelation here i. The black town.  Kids are disappearing.  So thats who the vampire is eating.

Ch 14 pg 145

More details about the kids the vampire is feeding off of.

Vampire drives a white van.

Ch 15 pg 151

Revelation,  the black lady that is missing was the cleaning lady that Patricia saw at the vampires house. She calls ms green to ask if she'd be willing to talk to the lady's mom with her.  Ms green doesn't care for that lady.  But Sue's willing to do it if Patricia comes over right now.

Ch 16 pg 161

They go to a lady's house and her daughter is missing.  Patricia tells her to call the p9lice and to tell them she was taken by the vampire who is a drug dealer.  The lady kinda does that in that she calls the cops and says her daughter is missing. 

Ch 17 pg 168

Patricia goes looking for the girl and vampire in the woods.  She finds the vampire's van and she finds the vampire doing vampire shit to the girl.  She runs away and stumbles into the police.  She takes the police to the van but nobody is there.  They go back to the lady's trailer and the daughter is back in her room.

Patricia's husband shows up and they go home.

Ch 18 pg 179

The girl the vampire was feeding on was taken away by child protection services.  It sucks and Patricia's husband isn't willing to do anything to help.  Even though it was his mother Ms green was protecting from the eats the vampire sent.

The vampire comes over and they have cookies and Patricia apologizes for ratting him out to the cops.

Ch 19 pg 191

Patricia tells book club that the vampire is a drug dealer.  At first nobody wants to hear it.  But then kitty and others back her up.  Grace is 100% against this.

Grace calls Patricia to tell her she found where the vampire is stashing his van.  Book club is working to take down the vampire they think is a drug dealer.

Ch 20 pg 202

Patricia claims to be having book club and tries to get rid of her family.  But her daughter bails on her sleep over and ruins everything.   But she tells her to stay in her room.  Why?  Because some book club people are coming over but also cops are coming over so they can talk to them about the vampire. 

Also, Patricia's husband that was supposed to do dinner and a movie with their son comes home.

Ch 21 pg 207

It's not just Carter it's all their shitty unsupportive husbands.  They're all cozy with the vampire because he's invested money with them.  And their shitty.husbands not only don't support them but they've brought the vampire abd they make them apologize and he forces himself into their bookclub full time.

Ch 22 pg 219

Patricia goes to Grace's house and tells at her.  Ms green is working for uer now. 

Patricia goes home and drinks a bottle of prozak.

Ch 23 pg 230

Patricia wakes up in the hospital. Her.kids hate her cause of the suicide attempt and her husband because he isn't getting the promotion he wants.

Three years later...

Ch 24

We're living in a post-apocalyptic book club.  The men are in it and they read the sorts of books that dads read.  The vampire is thoroughly entrenched in everything. They listen to rush limbaugh on the radio and read James Patterson books.  So gross.

Ch 25 pg 250

something wicked this way comes

Prologue page 1

June is the best month.  This story takes place in October.

Ch 1 pg 5

Jim is a boy with brown hair and green eyes and a man tells hum his house is gonna get struck by lightning and gives him a lightning rod.

Will is a boy with blonde hair and is taking this all very seriously. 

Jim, not so much.  And even if it is serious,  what's so bad about dying in a fire?

Ch 2 pg 12

They nail up the lightning rod and go to the library. Will's dad works at the library and he is old.

Ch 3 pg 17

I listened to an audio book version of this.  It was done like a radio drama.  I don't remember this chapter being in there at all.  It's all wills dad's internal monologue and I FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!!

Will's dad is a sad man.  He wishes he could go running through the night like will and Jim do.  He thinks about the differences between Will and Jim.  Wills just running cause running is fun.  Jim is a little more purposeful about it.  Jim knows life is unfair so when he falls down he doesn't just brush himself off and start running again he looks around for the other punch in the face life is about to deliver. Will is constantly asking why bad things happen.  Jim just knows they're gonna happen and Hope's the next thing isn't worse.  

Will's dad take his sad self to his sad bar and drinks his one sad drink.

Ch 4 pg 20

This town shuts down at 9 and it shuts down fast.  The only people they run into on way home are the cigar store man, who just stands there with his mouth open and the barber shop guy who is crying because he smells cotton candy and it makes him sad for his lost childhood.  He and wills dad should hang out and be sad together. 

Ch 5 pg 24

Will's dad leaves the bar and suddenly has a feeling like Chris Mason time.  He sees a man plastering a sign for the carnival and it says my side is there.

Ch 6 pg 28

Jim and Will climb a tree to get a view of the carnival.  What they see is a stage where people are taking off their clothes and prancing about all nimble bimbly.  Will climbs down and convinces Jim to come down after a while.  Then Jim calls Will a Baptist.  Sick burn 🔥 

Ch 7 pg 31

They find a flier for the carnival and it sounds cool.

Ch 8 pg 34

Will's mom isnt dad like his dad.  She's pretty happy.  She enjoys being a mother.

Ch 9 pg 40

Jim is an only child.  His dad is dead and he had two siblings but they're dead too.  He tells his mom he's never gonna have kids.

Ch 10

The lightening rod salesman sees the most beautiful woman in the world frozen in a block of ice.

Ch 11 pg 46

The carnival comes to town at 3 am.  Jim goes to see it and will foll9ws.

Ch 12 pg 49

The boys watch the carnival ger set up

Ch 13 pg 55

Wills sad old dad sees will and Jim run home at 3 am.

Ch 14 pg 57

Sad wills dad sits there on his bed and repeats the word 3 over and over again.  He has sad thoughts that are sad.

Ch 15 pg 61

The boys go to the fair.  Ms Foley goes into the mirror maze and sees a younger version of herself drown in the ocean.

Ch 16 pg 68

They do fair stuff. At sunset Jim disappears.  Will finds him coming out of the mirror maze and Jim doesn't wanna talk about it.  Will is mad at Jim but it doesn't really matter cause Jim knows he can kinda do whatever and will will always be there.

Ch 17

They find the lightning rod salesmans bag.  Jim is excited to do the fair while everyone else goes home for dinner.

Ch 18 pg 72

The boys try to go on the merry go round.  But it has an put of order sign.  After they leave they climb a tree and they see a man go on the merry go round backwards and he gets younger.

Ch 19

The boys follow the man that's a boy now and he goes to their teachers house.  That's not her nephew, that's a man baby!!!!

Ch 20

The boys have an idea to call their teacher.  But their parents are so mad that they stayed out so late they get sent to bed with no dinner.  They sure wouldn't be allowed to use the phone.

Will's dad doesn't know what to say to.him.  so he just says be careful. 

He's too old to relate to a child.  He wishes he had never had a kid.  

Ch 21 

The boys sneak out at 10:30.  Technically Jim sneaks out and will follows him.  But also there's this thing about a bridge that if you jump on it, you can make music.  Theyve used it to let the.other one know they're gonna go somewhere. Will thought he heard Jim playing music on it.  Maybe someone else did that and that's why Jim left without will cause he thought it was will doing it.

Ch 22 pg 96

They go to the teachers house.  The nephew has stolen hwe jewelry and used i to frame will and Jim for burglary. He rules.  These kids are in way over their heads.  The teacher sees them and they run away like the idiot children they are.

Ch 23

Carousel. Nephew gets on.  It goes forward and for reasons I don't understand he stays on it until he's dead.

Ch 24

The boys call the cops.

They go to the freak tent.  

This makes no sense.  Why didn't they go to the Carousel?  That's where they saw the nephew die.  

The nephew is now part of an electric chair thing.  He gets electricity cuted and he comes to life and talks very slowly.

The cops are satisfied and they leave.

Ch 25

Teacher calls dad at the library and tells him to meet her at the police station. 

Ch 26

The boys lie to the police and tell them they live near the station and they get dropped off at some random.hoise.  then for some reason they walk to the p9lice station where they see dad and teacher.  And say hi.

Ch 27

Dad walks will home.  Will promises to tell him everything in a few days.  This is a mistake.  He should tell him now.  Dad is cool as he'll.  As he'll.

Ch 28

Dad and will talk about goodness.  Being good is a fearful occupation. 

Ch 29

An air balloon with the dust witch from the freak show comes by.  She paints the top of jims.house.  they spray off the paint with the hose.

Ch 30 pg 146

Jim and Will lure the baloon to an abandoned house and try to shoot it with a bow and arrow.  The bow br3aks.  Will throws the arrow at the Ballon and it Rios a hole. The balloon retreat 

Ch 31

The rest of the night is uneventful 

Ch 32

Dawn comes. It's raining.  They go.it in rain coats.  They find a little girl.  The little girl.is the teacher.  They figure she got backwards Carousel'd. They go toward the Carousel to find out.  But a carnival parade goes by and they hide.  They go back to find teacher and she's gone.  They think the carnival parade got her. 

Ch 33 163

Will calls home and tells his dad they gotta hide out and won't come.home for a day.or two and not to worry or try to find them.

Ch 34

The boys are hiding out in a sewer grate.

Ch 35

Dad kicks ass.  He finds will and Jim and the carnival man, with the witch in tow, comes by asking about will and Jim and dad, through a series of words and acts, convinces carnival man to fuck off.  Feeling a little emboldened he tells carnival man his name and that he works at the library. There's a very come fuck around and find out vibe to this.

He tells the boys to stay hidden and meet him at the library at 7.

Ch 36

Lightning rod man has somehow become a dwarf working for the carnival. He goes to the grate where the boys were hiding.  But they're not.ther3 anymore.

Ch 37

Dad is at the library but 7 comes and no will no Jim.

Ch 38

The boys eventually make it to the library. 

Dad has been doing some research. This carnival ain't new.  It's run through town before.  1908 1880 1840.  It's the autumn people and they're up to no good.

Ch 39

Dad's theory boils down to the carnival people being able to live forever because they use the Carousel every now and then to shave off a year.  But how does the Carousel work?  It's fueled by the pain of the people in the towns they go through.

Ch 40

Lots more talk about sin and pain and how the carnival might operate. 

Ch 41 pg 209

Carnival man shows up.  All of dad's knowledge doesn't really seem to be useful here. Carnival man asks for the boys.  Tells dad how easily he could kill him.  Carnival man says he will make.him young if he gives up.the boys.  Dad says no.  Carnival man starts to walk about calling for the boys.

Ch 42 pg 213

Carnival man finds the boys. 

Ch 43 pg 219

Dad tries to fight carnival man, but it doesn't go well and he's taken away with the dust witch and the boys are taken away by carnival man.

Ch 44 pg 225

Dust witch tries to give dad the heart attack carnival man threatened.  Somehow his nihilism wins the day and he's all fuck you witch, you know what you're doing and he starts laughing at her and somehow fire is involved and she runs away and he heads to the drug store for pain meds.

Ch 45 pg 233

The carnival man marches the boys through town. He's controlling them somehow.  He makes them smile and say pleasantries with towns folk as they walk about.

Ch 46 pg 238

They get back to the carnival and they're gonna a end the night with the witch doing the catch a bullet in your teeth trick.  I don't get why.  How is this gonna benefit the carnees?  Anyway,  they ask for a volunteer to do the gun shooting and nobody wants to.  They're about to end things and dad shows up to volunteer.

Ch 47 pg 241

Dad had a bad lefthand. So he needs help.  He calls for will. The whole crowd calls for will.  Will comes out of the mirror maze.  

Ch 48 pg 250

They do the trick and the witch dies.

They go into the mirror maze to find Jim.

The mirrors show you stuff youre afraid of.  Dad is getting a bit overwhelmed by increasingly older reflections of himself.

The lights go out.  Dad is happy cause he can't see the reflections of his old ass anymore.

Ch 49 pg 254

Will lights a match.  Dad loses his shit and puts the match out.  Will lights another one and before dad can protest will saves the day with love.  "I don't care how old you are dad.  I love you."  Fuck yeah!!!!

Ch 50 pg 257

Dad laughs again and somehow this results in all the mirrors shattering. 

Ch 51 pg 261

They go to the Carousel and they see the freaks and Jim.  Wills is all oh no, they got Jim.  Dad in a moment reminiscent of rhorshock from mystery men is all, no, we got them.  Will loves his dad and so do I.  But will doesn't get it and hes hella scared.

Carousel shenhannegans ensue. How many times did jim go around before will got him off?  Is Jim ok?  Did he die falling off the Carousel?

Ch 52 pg 270

Will is trying to wake Jim.  It's not working.  Another boy comes along and he needs help.  Carnival man is after him.  Dad goes with the boy to help.  But dad figures out the scheme.  The boy is carnival man.  Dad tears his shirt off and boy is covered in tattoos just like carnival man.  Somehow dad's goodness is a powerful weapon against the evil carnival man.

Ch 53 pg 275

Something happens with carnival man.  And then he died.  With the boss dead, the freaks all leave.

Sad part, Jim is dead too.

Ch 54 pg 

Dad realizes Jim isn't dead.  But the carnival is sucking the life out of him.  And will's sadness is part of the problem.  Dad smacks will around a bit and tells him to sing and dance and laugh and it works.  Their silliness brings Jim back.  And they all lived happily ever after.  Or maybe not.  Maybe the next threat is here already and its even worse.

the blood mirror ch 28 - 54

Ch 28

Karris is doing execution. But she doesn't execute what's his face that tried to kill kip.  She kills the guy that gave him the order to kill kip.  She does it with mirrors and sunlight.  Kinda like killing him with a laser.  

Ch 29

Kip isn't a young man anymore.   Marriage has prematurely aged him.  He kisses his wife before he goes into battle.  There's also a magic the gathering card moment where he remembers a time when one of his ancestors had to marry his lovers daughter.

Ch 30

Karris doesn't kill Quentin like she should.  She makes him her slave instead. She kills another guy with the death ray and he turns himself into a three headed dog in the midst of it.   Pretty cool.

Ch 31

LIV!!!!!!!

She has the seed and she can feel its power.  She's more powerful than any other ultra violet in the world as she is now.  But she's no god. She has to break the halo before she can absorb the seed fully and become a God.  It's a painful process.  But she comes out the other side unharmed.  She can feel her connection to the world now.  Very specifically she can feel a magical creature and she knows she can control it.  

Also, a man appears and says he's her slave.

Ch 32

Kip and his jackbooted thugs attack the glorious rebels.  They largely find success but then there's a cannon and other explosions and 250 slaves Kip is gonna try to save.  Not that there's any point.  Life sucks under the boot of the cromeria.  It sucks even worse with the rebels.

Ch 33

Gavin is escaping.  We think he might really do it, but then Andross is there waiting for him.

Ch 34

One of the female black guards tells tiea all of her feelings.  Main takeaway I have here is that the black guards know that zymon is a piece of shit.

Ch 35

Kip saves most of the slaves on the sinking ship.  They're gonna go spread word if how great Kip is. 

Ch 36

Karris and teia talk about marissa being abducted by the broken eye and lips escape and what not.  Karris tells her Teia needs to destroy the broken eye by any means necessary. She's already written out a pardon letter for any crimes she need to commit towards that end.

Ch 37

Kip and the boys drink and ne marry for tomorrow we may die.

Tisis gives kip oral pleasure.

Ch 38

Kips grandpa kicks the shit out of Gavin and then throws him down into the yellow prison with his dead brother's body.

Ch 39

Kip and tisis talk about how they haven't had sex.  Kip wants to stop trying.  Tisis says they have to have a baby before their marriage will matter.

Ch 40

Kips grandpa and Zymons mom talk about the cerberus and how he was an evil god and they're not just fighting the color prince, who's Zymon's uncle but that doesn't seem to matter, but also these evil gods.  They also talk about there being multiple worlds that orlham made and how the gods can't be at more than one place at a time so maybe this fight is a small part in a greater war against Orlham and there's a lot of scary unknown.

.ch 41

LIV!!!!!!

The blue god tracks her down and they talk.  Liv tells her where she can find the body of her mortal love.  Liv goes back to her home town and Kips house.  She uses his left behind scent to send him a message.

Ch 42

Kip kinda gets the message.  But he doesn't seem to understand who it's from or what it in.

Ch 43

Tiea talks to murder sharp.  He's gotta go kill the seer so he'll be gone for a while.  The old man, who we know is Grinwoody and iron fists uncle, will handle her now.  If she meets him face to face that's gonna be an interesting conversation. 

Ch 44 pg 319

Kip kills a red eight with help from card memories. 

Ch 45 pg 327

Gavin is having a conversation with his imaginary friend. What we learn is that dazen did kill gavin long ago and this whole prison thing is just his madness.  His dad comes down to tell him he loves him and that yes going to start sending down bread again.  One of them will be poisoned so have fun with that.

Ch 46 pg 337

Lots of stuff about will casting.  Where you use magic to control animals. Or even people and that's why its forbidden by the chromeria.  Kip makes a speech and it goes well and he's added the hidden forest people to his army.

Ch 47 pg 351

Teia tortures a slave with pyryl to learn how to do pyryl stuff cause murder Sharpe commanded it and she figures if she doesn't do it, the broken eye will kill her

Ch 48 pg 357

Kips wife didn't tell kip about the will casters and he's angry and tells at her and sleeps alone.  When he wakes up in the morning there's green soldiers and  he figures his sister in law sent them to kill them.

Ch 49 pg 361

Gavin and his evil reflection talk.  One cutting comment it makes is that he could be with karris if he weren't such a coward.

Ch 50

Karris meets with her brother.  He wants a ciese fire till spring so fall and winter harvest can occur.  She's all, fuck you, I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna kill you.

Ch 51 pg 371

Tsisisis`s cousin tells her what's up.  His mom wants to side with karris's brother.  But they talk and cousin pledges himself to kip.

Ch 52 pg 379

The broken eye wants to send teia to kill people.  Karris has a plan to use this to her advantage. 

Ch 53

Gavin gets sick of the daily process of trying to figure out what food is poisoned and not eating it.  He eats both loaves of bread.   Perhaps he will die.

Ch 54

Tiea goes with a diplomat to paria to convince them to join the war effort.  Also she had the assassination mission from the broken eye.  The diplomat delivers the whites message and its pretty much join us or.die cause we will kill you.  Tiea doesn't do the murder she's supposed to.do.

Something Wicked This Way ComesRay Bradbury

I checked out the downloaded audio book from the library.

the ocean at the end of the lane.

Prequel

There's a guy,  he grew up on the titular lane.  There is a duck pond out back of the farm house at the end of the lane.  There was a girl there that referred to the duck pond as her ocean.

Guy has childhood memories he has forgotten. He suddenly remembers EVERYTHING now that hes back to the place of his childhood.  The ocean at the end of the lane.

Ch 1 pg 8

He remembers a 7th birthday no one came to and a kitten that died.

Ch 2 pg 13

The guy that had the accident with the kitten was renting a room at the guys house when he was a boy.  He later killed himself in their car.  This is how the guy that was then a boy got to hang out with Lettie, the girl in the farmhouse at the end of the lane with the duck pond she calls an ocean, and her mom and grandma.

I think Lettie and "family" have some sort of telepathical powers.

Ch 3 pg 25

Boy has a dream where he's choking.  He wakes up to find a coin in his throat.  He goes down to the end of the lane where Lettie explains that it's just someone trying to give people money and he doesn't need to worry about it and she will protect him.

Her maturity and confidence is alarming to boy.  He asks her how old she is and she says eleven. Then in a nightvalian sort of way he asks how long she has been eleven and it gave me so much joy.

 The ladies at the farm house at end of the lane seem to know what the problem is and what to do about it.

Lettie is going to go solve the problem.  She wants to bring boy along.  Her "mom" likes the idea.  Her "grandma " not so much.  But she doesn't stop her from taking him with.  She just says don't say i didn't warn you.

Ch 4

Boy and Lettie go into the words and into what I'm gonna assume is something like the fairy rhelm and they fight a spirit monster thing.  It goes well and the thing is bound so it can't hurt our w0rld anymore but boy let go of girls hand during the fight and in that moment he felt a stabbing pain in his foot and I expect that will have negative consequences in the future.

Also the way lettie talks it's very much like she's some sort of immortal being and not a person, in case anyone reading this thinks she's a normal little girl.

Ch 5

The stabbing pain immediately pays off as the boy pulls a worm out of it.  Or most of a worm anyway.  Probably still some in there and it'll probably continue to be a problem. 

Ch 6

Boy (does boy have a name?) Is told by his mom she has a job now and a woman named Ursula will be looking after them.  She is the worm that was in his foot. This is very bad and it's all his fault.  Ursula doesn't let him leave their property so he can't talk to lettie about her.

Ch 7

Boy goes on a bit of a hunger strike.  When his father demands he eats the food Ursula made he says he won't cause she's not a person, she's a monster.  Then he runs to the bathroom and locks the door and his father kicks the door down and tries to drown him

Ch 8

Boy has been locked in his room.  He decides to make a break for it.  He is kinda lost and cold and wet and tired and alone and Ursula finds him and she's flying. Also, pretty sure she had sex with his dad.

He is pretty hopeless.  But it turns out he has made it to the hampstocks land and lettie comes to save the day.

Ch 9 

Lettie and family pull some jedi mind trick and convince boy's parents that boy is here for a run of the mill sleepover. The only reason they came down the lane was to bring boy his toothbrush. 

Ch 10

Lettie and boy go back to his house to deal with the Ursula situation.  The basic idea is that Lettie offers to send Ursula home in a painless manner. It doesn't really work out and Ursula runs away.

Ch 11

They find Ursula pretty easy cause lettie has trapped her here.  Lettie informs Ursula that the cleaners have been called. Thus motivates Ursula to take lettie up on her offer to go back home through her door, which used to be in boys foot.  Problem,  the door doesn't work.   Some part of it is still in boy.  Ursula has a solution,  she's gonna rip his heart out and somehow that will allow her to go home.  It's around then that the cleaners show up.  They're vaguely bird like shady beings and they tear Ursula apart.

But they are not satisfied. They need to clean up the part of Ursula that's in boy.  

Lettie take boy to a fairy ring where he will be safe from the cleaners.

Ch 12

Boy stays in the fairy rings despite the shadow monster impersonating many different people trying to lure him out.

Ch 13

Lettie shows up with a bucket.  They do some magic and they are in the pond by her house.  Its trippy AF!!!!!

Back at the house he eats schpehards pie and spotted dick and all is well.  

Except that Lettie isn't so sure they can deal with the shadow bird things.  Her mom is though and that makes boy feel ok.

Ch 14

The shadow bird things start doing bad things like eating oak trees and stars and what not.  Seeing this, boy has the sudden desire to sacrifice himself so they will stop.  But tillie jumps on him to protect him and she dies. Grandma comes out, in a way that reminded me of dr who, and tells the shadow birds that they have violated sacred treaties by attacking Tillie and what not and if they know what's good for them they'll go back home.  It kinda feels like an empty threat but it works and they gtfo.  Grandma takes tillie to the ocean and explains she ain't really dead, but she needs some time in the ocean and she'll return when she's ready.

Ch 15

Boy goes home and just sorta forgets everything that just happened.  He bel8ves lettie went to Australia to be with her dad.

Ch 16

the blood mirror ch 1 through 27

Ch 1 

Gavin had a bad dream

Ch 2

Teia Helps murder kidnap gavins sex slave.

Ch 3

Gavins sex slave is in the prison with him.  She's the whites grand daughter.  She was never a slave.  She was always a spy.

Ch 4 

Kips grandfather and karris meet.  It goes pretty well from Karris's perspective. 

Ch 5

Teia meets the head of the order who assigns her to spy on Karris.  Also, they're gonna murder someone for her. 

Ch 6. Pg 37

Zymon comes to talk to karris and the little psycho does real good playing on the mountain if insecurities that the q3 year old boy that writes this part gives her.

Ch 7 

Kip and his new wife have not consummated their marriage yet.  It's like all the trauma she's been through just concentrates itself in her vagina and won't let kip in.

.ch 8

Gavin and his former sex slave talk about stuff.

Ch 9

Teia is being made a black guard.  Her first assignment will be on Karris's protection detail.

.ch 10

Gavin and his former sex slave talked all night and fell asleep and he woke up with a bone that she wants ro put to use.  He's all, can't, my wife.  Kips grandpa shows up and takes her away.

Ch 11 pg 69 (nice)

Kip and his wife still haven't successfully sexed.  But she's gonna keep trying. Part of that is that she's going to go with him to war.

Ch 12

Teia goes to the jail to find a bad guy to mark for death.  She finds quintin.  He had previously killed a black guard recruit trying to kill kip. So he's gonna die now.

Ch 13

There's a yellow luxin storm.  Kip saves the day.  He goes through a spiritual experience in the midst of the saving.

Ch 14

Teia undoes her quinton mark.  Who's she gonna mark for death now?

Ch 15

Gavin is losing his mind.  Makes sense.  The other Gavin lost his mind down here .

Ch 16

After saving the day, kip is blind for.three days.  

Ch 17

The blackguards do their swearing In ceremony.  Part of the deal is you name a previous black guard to honor.  Teia picks iron fist.  Funny cause they're in the broken eye together but they don't know that yet.  When that is revealed, I hope it's a joyous occasion. 

Ch 18

Kip and the guys and his wife are.go8ng to war.

Ch 19

Holy 

Fucking

Shit

Gavin made a shadow version of himself to torment his brother in this prison and now that hes alone, its tormenting him.  But that's just the tip of the Orlam Damned ice berg.  Dazen isn't a polychrome.  He can only draft one color.  Black.  Four books in, it is revealed that Dazen is the black prism.  He steals other people's colors.  The best part is that he doesn't remember that.   Using Black luxin had made him forget.

Ch 20.pg 139

Lots of griping going on with kip and his group. His wife is supposedly from here but as a guide she hasn't been all tjay useful so far.  She tells a horror story about previous colonizer activities that kinda wins the group over.

Ch 21

Teia is on guard duty with Karris as she's going to do some executions.

Ch 22

Dazen is in the prison he built for gavin.  He isn't eating to try to get his dad's attention.   It works.  He yells are his dad for being a trash dad.

Ch 23 

Kip and his group.  They meet the forest people.

Ch 24 

Dazen beats his head against the wall until a tooth comes loose. He's gonna try to use that tooth to open the door his dad came in.

Ch 25

Kip and his wife are not getting along.

Ch 26

Gunner is tempted to trade the blinding knife for a really kick ass ship.

Ch 27

The forest people were sent to kip by the seer (liv's new step mother) and they were told that kip would help them fight at a town that's hella far away.  This isn't a big deal as they're all drafters so they make luxin skimmmers.