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The Sunday Post is a chance to recap the past week, talk about next week, tell you what I’m reading, and share news. It’s hosted by The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Readerbuzz, and Book Date.

The Sunday Post #332

On The Blog Recently

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In My Reading Life

I read a satirical horror book and liked it a lot! It was The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, and it's just as weird and funny as it sounds. The story follows Patricia, a wife and mother. From the outside, she seems like a proper Southern lady, but she's keeping a secret. She's involved in a true crime book club and loves gory literature. Then, a strange young man moves to town and shows an interest in her club. Odd things start happening to the local children and animals. Is the man a vampire, or are all the spooky books warping the minds of the book club members?

If you love horror or true crime, this is a fun novel. The book club ladies read the classics of those genres. Their opinions on familiar books are hilarious. It's also interesting to watch them lie about what they're reading. It's not proper for ladies to read gory books. One of the book club members tells her husband she's in a Bible study group. Patricia tells the vampire she's reading a book about a "small Guyanese village." She means Jonestown. She's reading about the Jonestown mass murder.

On the surface, this is a campy novel about slaying vampires. If you want to look deeper, it's social satire. The real villain isn't the vampire. It's the rigid social hierarchy of the early 1990s American South. The people with all the power are the white male business owners. Everybody else is expected to support them fully and not cause disruptions or ask questions. The men love the vampire because he's a great business consultant. He's helping them make money. The vampire is putting money in the pockets of powerful people while literally sucking the life out of women, children, poor people, and people of color. When Patricia points out the damage that the vampire has caused, her husband makes excuses and calls her crazy. The vampire is good for him. He refuses to look at the world from anyone else's perspective.

This book shows that you can't always rely on powerful people to solve your problems. Sometimes you have to break out of the role society has given you and slay the vampire yourself.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy recently:

1. I'm back at full-time work. I'm already completely exhausted, but I have a new supervisor, and he's very patient. I think I'll be okay.
2. I've managed to keep up with my fitness routine pretty well. I feel like I'm a terrible adult. I don't understand how people get enough sleep and exercise when they have kids and a job.
3. If you celebrated Easter, I hope it was a good one! Baby Brooklyn had fun on her egg hunt. I had fun eating the candy she found on her egg hunt.
4. Chocolate pie!
5. New episodes of Love Is Blind on Netflix. If you like trash TV, you need to watch this show.

Listen To Me Whine About How Tired I Am

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