literary gluttony

  • There’s a moment every year when the world exhales. The sunlight softens, the air sharpens, and something ancient stirs beneath the quiet hum of falling leaves. Autumn doesn’t arrive with the flash of summer or the silence of winter—it seeps in, patient and deliberate, wrapping the world in stories. It’s in the sound first—the hush

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  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ (3.5 stars) If the first Dungeon Crawler Carl was a chaotic banquet of absurdity and adrenaline, Carl’s Doomsday Scenario feels like the morning-after buffet—still satisfying, still wild, but a bit slower to refill the trays. Dinniman continues his unhinged blend of humor, brutality, and heart, throwing Carl and his cat companion back into the

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  • Some stories refuse to fade. They echo through centuries, reshaped and reborn in new hands, whispering the same truths in different tongues. Myth and legend are more than history — they’re hunger. They’re the spark in our bones reminding us that we’ve always needed stories bigger than ourselves. This week’s Mythic Monday is for those

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  • The jack-o’-lanterns grin like they know something you don’t. The night hums low and restless, the kind of October darkness that feels alive. It prowls between the porch lights, curls around doorframes, and presses against your window like it wants in. This is when the thrillers taste best — when fear has flavor, and every

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  • October has a particular flavor, doesn’t it? The kind that lingers like smoke in the air and cinnamon on your tongue. The nights stretch longer, the wind sighs through the trees, and suddenly every drink tastes like something a witch might brew under a harvest moon. This week’s Tasty Tuesday is for readers who crave

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  • Rated:⭐⭐⭐⭐ Neal Shusterman’s Thunderhead, the second book in the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, doesn’t just continue the story—it escalates it. If Scythe was a philosophical dance with death, Thunderhead is a storm that questions the very meaning of control, morality, and what happens when humanity decides it’s outgrown its gods. Shusterman’s world remains one

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  • Some books burn bright for a season — and then fade into the dust motes of memory. But here at Literary Gluttony, we know better than to let good stories go quietly. Every Forgotten Friday, we crack open the crypt of the overlooked and unloved, brushing off the cobwebs to rediscover tales that still hum

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  • Some stories don’t roar with power—they shimmer. They hum softly beneath the skin, twining folklore and moonlight until the world feels just a little more alive, a little more strange. Witchlight Wednesday is for those stories—the ones that blur the line between dream and reality, that leave you seeing the glint of something otherworldly just

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  • The world stirs reluctantly on Mondays — coffee brews stronger, shadows linger longer, and everything feels just a little off-kilter. Instead of resisting the gloom, let’s lean in. After all, what better way to survive the start of the week than by sinking into stories that echo with whispers, blood, and the soft thud of

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  • Saturdays are made for luxuriating in the linger—the taste on your tongue, the whisper of a new story curling at the edges of your mind, a drink just bold enough to match the book. This edition pairs four compelling reads with glasses that don’t shy away. Grab your coziest corner, your favorite blanket, and let’s

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