It doesn't matter if you're into Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Jack Ketchum or Shirley Jackson, this is the place to share that love and discuss to your heart's content. The characters are well-developed and I found plenty of humor in the social satire that is threaded into the story.

As Riley struggles to forge a new life, forces are gathering in the tension-plagued neighborhood as glitzy new homes rise beside crumbling mill houses, and everyone is able and willing to peer into a neighbor’s window. With the visual humor in Jessixa Bagley’s illustrations, children will have fun learning to count to 13! What they get is a giant creature that outruns a speeding deer and savages it with its bare hands and jagged teeth. Before the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, Bigfoot was a Northwestern wood ape, just a regional oddity that didn't yet have a hold on the national consciousness.

Whatever the reason, tales of monsters have been with us since the dawn of time and show no sign of abating. Like humans, he believes that they are self-aware, sentient beings who have reasoning abilities - and possibly more. In a subject area whose works tend to push hard arguments, it’s nice to read a book about the Sasquatch that straddles the line of the exist vs. John Zada’s writing style is equal to Jon Krakauer and David Grann, in his ability to pull the reader into the narrative of the story with the precision of his words.

Told primarily through diary entries, the book follows Kate, newcomer to a high-tech neighborhood owned by a Jeff Bezos-type billionaire.In this picture book, Jess describes her first encounter with Bigfoot and the real beauty inside this Bigfoot beast. But what captured my heart the most, was the stunning imagery of the British Columbia coast and Great Bear Rainforest that Zada captured with his words. Does a hulking, hairy, 800-pound, nine-foot-tall, elusive primate roam the woods and forests throughout North America - and the world? This is Bigfoot at his most humorless, just a smelly, hairy hippie with a big dick and a telepathic vocabulary taken from self-help books ("Why am I glad?