Waiting on Wednesday 12/15/21
Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick
The Pallbearers’ Club by Paul Tremblay (July 5, 2022 by William Morrow)
Feels like I’ve been featuring a lot of sci-fi and fantasy for my Waiting on Wednesdays lately, so today I’m going with a psychological thriller. The last couple of Tremblay’s books I’ve read haven’t been a good as A Head Full of Ghosts but I’m looking forward to checking out this one because it sounds so creepy and weird. There’s definitely potential!
“A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins—from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.
What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?
Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers’ Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.
Okay, that part was a little weird.
So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?
Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers’ Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.
Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers’ Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unforgettable and unsettling friendship.”
The BiblioSanctum 
Ooh nice pick! That’s a new to me one. Sounds like an intriguing read! Hope you enjoy it once you get to read it!
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I’ve yet to read Tremblay, and originally glossed over this, but hair metal, volunteer pallbearers (?!?!), Polaroid corpse photos, and that ominous threat of “making cuts” has me intrigued.
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Yes, it’s got all the intriguing buzz words, hasn’t it 😀
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I just saw this too and I’m intrigued! Definitely keeping this as a possibility 😁
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It sounds so inventive and strange!
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This one does sound like it has potential. I’ve not tried his work yet but did notice I have an ebook of A Head Full of Ghosts, so I’ll probably start there.
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A Head Full of Ghosts was awesome! I’ve read several of his books since, but that one remains my favorite by him!
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Looks to be interesting
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I am disturbed yet intrigued by the sound of this!
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Definitely interested in this description.
Lynn 😀
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