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Hello to everyone I have been very busy this year do have not been following along. I did manage to read The Vanishing Half and Memphis both a great reads.

Another very close poll!

What about the PRE 1990 POLL for June 2023?????

Jane wrote: "Hello to everyone I have been very busy this year do have not been following along. I did manage to read The Vanishing Half and Memphis both a great reads."

It's good to hear from you, Jane. I hope you have been well.

Judi wrote: "What about the PRE 1990 POLL for June 2023?????"

It's here. I just forgot to check a box and it was way at the end of all the polls. That has been corrected.

Tom wrote: "Judi wrote: "What about the PRE 1990 POLL for June 2023?????"

It's here. I just forgot to check a box and it was way at the end of all the polls. That has been corrected."

Thanks Tom.

Cathrine ☯️ wrote: "Another very close poll!"

Agreed! True nail-biter this month.

I'm sticking with Twilight, but here's some info on both of the top contenders.

Blacktop Wasteland:
304 pages
free on Kindle Unlimited
Kindle price $11.99
Hardcover $22

Excerpt from the publisher's full description, Flatiron Books:
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner �� New York Times Notable Book �� NPR’s Best Books of the Year �� BookPage’s #1 Mystery and Suspense of the Year �� Sun Sentinel’s #1 Best Mystery of the Year
“I loved Blacktop Wasteland...[A] fast-paced, bareknuckle thriller.�� -Stephen King
“A roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm.�� -The New York Times Book Review
"One of the year's strongest novels." -Sun Sentinel

A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.

Beauregard “Bug�� Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast."

Twilight
224 pages
audio is on Hoopla
Kindle $9.99
Paperback (new) apx $16

From the publisher, Dzanc Books:
Suspecting that something is amiss with their father’s burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture to his gravesite and make a horrific discovery: their father, a whiskey bootlegger, was not actually buried in the casket they bought for him. Worse, they learn that the undertaker, Fenton Breece, has been grotesquely manipulating the dead.

Armed with incriminating photographs, Tyler becomes obsessed with bringing the perverse undertaker to justice. But first he must outrun Granville Sutter, a local strongman and convicted murderer hired by Fenton to destroy the evidence. What follows is an adventure through the Harrikin, an eerie backwoods filled with tangled roads, rusted machinery, and eccentric squatters—old men, witches, and families among them—who both shield and imperil Tyler as he runs for safety.

With his poetic, haunting prose, William Gay rewrites the rules of the gothic fairytale while exploring the classic Southern themes of good and evil.