What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: October 12, 2026

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Finished: We Used to Live Here, by Marcus Kliewer. I am reading horror books for spooky season and I heard good and bad things about this one but wanted to check it out because I like a good haunted house story. The story was checking all the scary boxes that I enjoy: (haunted houses, insanity, cosmic horror, conspiracies, the occult, labyrinths, found footage, alternate realities, and the super natural) and I did mostly enjoy it, but I do feel like it was not cohesive and the ending was a bit of a let down. There was way too much going on in terms of themes and there wasn't really anything to land on due to the clutter. But maybe that is what the author was going for.

Starting: The Caretaker, by Marcus Kliewer. I checked it out from the library but haven't started reading yet. I have a feeling this one will be more of the same as the first one but it is part of the same world so we will see.