'Hallowe'en at Merryvale' by Alice Hale Burnett

Starting my spooky October stories with the master of horror- Drac Von Stoller.

One would think that it isn't possible to jam-pack a book with racism, homophobia, sexism and general bigotry and STILL be meandering and nonsensical. But this author didn't win a 'palm award' for nothing.

Ben's got Covid. So we didn't record the Book Boys, and I had to poop out this emergency episode.

Just looking worse, we find out that Sherlock Holmes is a fan of Phrenology. And he's constantly trying to be better than everyone else. The first four chapters are CRAP so far.

Where Sherlock is a jerk to everyone he meets

The story of a gruff, hard-nosed, racist gumshoe trying to solve the mysterious murders that surround a homophobic therapist. Everything is terrible.

The story of a group of weirdos that are just looking to get killed. I mean, seriously, they all have sing-alongs with someone playing a guitar. Come on...