What I Read in October!

_{Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.}

_{When Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle’s offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.}

_{As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.}

_{Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don’t belong anywhere? Like you’re almost… invisible? Find your kindred spirits at The Sad Ghost Club.}

_{This is the story of one of those days – a day so bad you can barely get out of bed, when it’s a struggle to leave the house, and when you do, you wish you hadn’t. But even the worst of days can surprise you. When one sad ghost, lost and alone at a crowded party, spies another sad ghost across the room, they decide to leave together. What happens next changes everything. Because that night they start the The Sad Ghost Club – a secret society for the anxious and alone, a club for people who think they don’t belong.}

_{A year ago, Emily was ghosted.}

_{But it’s fine, she’s over it. And Andy was never part of the plan anyway. She’s working on Project New Emily – New Emily goes to cocktail bars, wears ankle-breaking heels and has her life together. She’s looking for a new man to match; Andy’s old Converse and bad jokes were never going to work.}

_{Thoughts about Andy are firmly in the past – until his name is spelled out on a Ouija board at a party. Emily discovers that Andy didn’t ghost her – he died. And just as she’s trying to work out how she feels, Andy turns up in her flat as a ghost. A ghost . In her flat.}

_{Once she’s over the shock, Emily realises she needs to get rid of this ghost of dating past so she can focus on the new man in her sights – and that the only way she can do that is to help Andy solve the mystery of his death. But as she spends more time with him, she remembers how nice it was to let her guard down and just be Old Emily sometimes.}

_{Emily must choose between her new life and the past that’s come back to haunt her. But she soon discovers that when it comes to putting her ghosts to rest, it’s not as easy as she might think…}

_{Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business.}

^{But the last weekend of the season, Charity’s co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity’s role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they’ll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?}