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A tad late, but congratulations to Joe Hill in his novel, The Fireman, for winning Good

Reads' 2016 Reader's Choice Award.

I have to admit, it passed my radar completely, but it'll be up next for my reading.

I'm on M.R. Carey's fell side right now, and I have to say, it's probably the first book

set primarily in a prison that has a supernatural bend to it that I've ever read.

But Joe Hill's The Fireman. The copy from Goodreads is.

From the award-winning New York Times,

best-selling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-shaped Box, comes a chilling novel about a worldwide

pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of

improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful

and enigmatic man known as the fireman. I'm looking forward to reading this because I used

to worry about spontaneous human combustion as a kid, let alone the popularity of the book.

That's right. Remember Unsolved Mysteries? That show had several episodes

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