Jul 25, 2025
The book I’m currently reading is a dual timeline set in the late 80s and early 90s with a horrifically haunted pinball machine and a bunch of friend drama and I am LIVING FOR IT
(Dead Flip by Sara Farizan)
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The book I’m currently reading is a dual timeline set in the late 80s and early 90s with a horrifically haunted pinball machine and a bunch of friend drama and I am LIVING FOR IT
(Dead Flip by Sara Farizan)
Never trust a pinball machine!
Dead Flip by Sara Farizan
I started this on audio and then came to realize audio books are not for me, but liked the book so much I put it on hold at the library. This is a great story of friendship and the way we grow and change and yet also remain true to ourselves and each other. Plus some horror. There were some plot holes, but the characters were so fleshed out and fully realized, I didn't mind. Also, BIPOC and queer main characters, yasssss!
4 stars.
Book Review: Dead Flip
Hey Readers! Hope you’re having a good start to the week. I’m back to work and it’s … well, not wonderful, but not horrible either. I just have a lot of catching up to do right now. Anywho, I read another book! This time I read Dead Flip by Sara Farizan. This is my second to last read for my grad school project, and the cover sold me right away. This has been on my TBR for quite some time, but…
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Dead Flip - Sara Farizan
Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine? These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs at Sam Goody, and run away from his past. Meanwhile, Cori is a homecoming queen, hiding her abiding love of horror movies and her queer self under the bubblegum veneer of a high school queen bee. But when Sam returns—still twelve years old while his best friends are now seventeen—Maz and Cori are thrown back together to solve the mystery of what really happened to Sam the night he went missing. Beneath the surface of that mystery lurk secrets the friends never told one another, then and now. And Sam’s is the darkest of all . . .
Can't Wait Wednesday | August 24th
Can’t Wait Wednesday | August 24th
Can’t Wait Wednesday is a book blogging meme hosted over at Wishful Endings. It’s to discuss and spotlight books that you’re excited about but that you haven’t read yet, to get you more excited about your TBR pile! It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, which is hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. I first heard about this meme from Kappa at Kappa Reads! Dead Flip by Sara Farizan 272…
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Indulging my vanity a bit by posting a 2hr + video where Jack Danger and I play Taxi. We explain some strategies/rules then a stranger feeds us clear liquor.
I see now how useful going back and watching your own playing can be. In my head, while I’m playing I do think things like: “I need to flip less” or “I’m playing too chaotic again” but seeing those mistakes recorded (and feeling a bit embarrassed) makes them feel more concrete somehow. It’s an interesting method, prompting me to be more present in my game. If you have the means to record your own play, I recommend it.
This video has lots of accidental Star Wars thigh starts, fidgeting, hot cheetos, dancing and some swears. There’s even a dollar game!
I also call Dr. Who the “tiramasu of pinball” (??)