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Hello and welcome to my blog! This is a new thing I'm doing to give updates on what I'm currently working on and potential books I have planned in the future. Right now I'm working on a witchcraft horror novel called Salem to Salem. I've always loved the works of Marcus Sedgewick so hopefully this will be a way to tip my hat to the master. I'm going to start logging lots of Sedgewick books Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 09, 2022 10:20

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Average rating: 3.8 · 59 ratings · 30 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors

	Torn Pages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Presence 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Falls 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eldritch Nights 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pixies 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stand and Deliver it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	In Bloom 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Lord Caterpillar Returns 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ralph Burton rated a book it was amazing Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
What a spectacular book. I love it so much. My discovery of this musical happened at the tail-end of Covid, in the most cursed year of 2021, where everything and everyone was falling apart. Something about that story, about a tortured young man stand ...more
May 23, 2026 11:04AM · like · see review
Ralph Burton rated a book it was amazing Marcus Aurelius – Meditations: Classic Stoicism Adapted for Modern Readers – Special Edition Including the Speeches and Sayings of the Emperor by Marcus Aurelius	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ralph Burton rated a book liked it Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1) by Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This disappointed me a little compared to Knife-edge. Will I read it again? Hell yeah.
May 21, 2026 02:15AM · like · see review
Ralph Burton rated a book liked it Unknown Pleasures by Chris Ott	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ralph Burton rated a book really liked it Where's My Cow? (Discworld, #34.5) by Terry Pratchett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ralph Burton rated a book it was amazing Knife Edge (Noughts & Crosses, #2) by Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wow. A book that begins with a quite literal explosion; a news article landing us right there in the centre of the action and cutting off with the precision of the French New Wave. If Truffaut was a writer, he might well be like this. Except the news ...more
May 20, 2026 02:07AM · like · see review
Ralph Burton rated a book really liked it Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ralph Burton rated a book really liked it Inside the Mind of John Wayne Gacy: The Real-Life Killer Clown by Brad Hunter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
One of the most evil and horrifying men who ever lived, this book wasn’t quite the psychological deep dive I craved. Sure, it was still disgusting and appalling and sordid. But, I wanted a more analytical approach: “he did X which signifies Y…” While ...more
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Ralph Burton rated a book it was amazing The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ralph Burton rated a book it was amazing Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A distinctly wintery book, at odds with the forever summer recollections of youth gone past. This feels so vivid and impactful, you can taste the snow turn to black ice on your tongue. What was once joyful and wonderful and new slowly becomes the har ...more
May 15, 2026 10:59AM · like · see review

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“Don’t let good old Jane worry you! She thinks she’s a Jane Austen character! Haha-ha! WHAT A FREAK!”
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“Down the road, he could see butterflies streaming out from the forest and flying over the town sign which read in bright dripping black: BLAUME.”
― Ralph Burton, In Bloom

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“With his parents out late at night, Michael had been halfway through practising Fur Elise when his piano bit him.”
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“He had promised to love her until the tips of his fingers turned stiff and black but now, as they lay together in a tent somewhere in the Antarctic in the depths of winter, a blizzard raging outside, he was fast reconsidering.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

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“When they woke up the next morning, George always felt this fleeting sadistic disappointment they hadn’t died in each other’s arms the night before.”
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“Laid out in her sleeping bag, covered in snow, Carrie looked like an ice princess, but she also looked like her mother.”
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“It took five minutes for him to leave the campsite, and by the time he passed the gravesite where they had buried Mark, George had experienced second thoughts.”
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“The door revealed this room of cuddly toy bears all piled up in pyramids.”
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