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My Halloween aesthetic 💀 for the #hauntedhollowswap ! This is always a fun collage to make 😆, as Halloween and fall are just my absolute favorite times of the year! These are my main guys tagged and pictured . I‘m always big on decorating, makeup, nails, games.. anything really! Glad the pink and neon decorations have become big! I‘m obsessed with the skulls/flowers/books aesthetic anymore as well.

New tattoo on my forearm, I‘m at a book con and they bring in a tattoo artist for us every year. #losersclub

“It wasn‘t what I thought it would be at all. It didn‘t put an end to me as a person. It think … it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in spite of the pain.”

“He knew that real loneliness was a smeary red: the color of the taillights of the car ahead of you reflected on wet hottop in a driving rain.”

“Right as a trivet, Freddie Firestone would have said, and Bill wondered — not for the first time — why a person had such weird thoughts at times like these.”

“That was an odd thought. He supposed it must have come from his own head — where else could a thought come from? — but it somehow did not seem like his own thought at all.”

“A frightening possibility suddenly occurred to him: maybe sometimes things didn‘t just go wrong and then stop; maybe sometimes they just kept going wronger and wronger until everything was totally fucked up.”

…back at It

I finally finished IT! It‘s pretty standard King: lots of details and perfect characterization building up to a point where all the small details from the beginning come back around, and a less-than-stellar ending. Probably the scariest book I‘ve ever read. I think the part at the end with Beverly and all the boys could have been left out, because WHY? Y‘all know what part I mean.

Next up #readingStephenKing: The Eyes of the Dragon!

#TLT
1. IT - This is one of my all time favorite movies and books. I loved the original and the remake.
2. Shawshank Redemption - I loved how the movie took this short story and turned it into this amazing movie.
3. Hobbit - like above, I loved that they made 3 movies from 1 book. I love the added stories that helped you connect more with all the characters.
Honorable mentions : The Shining, Hunger Games and True Blood.

@dabbe

I‘m so excited that I finally made it over 1000 pages in my #currentlyreading!! I‘m at the point now where I absolutely can‘t stand having to put the book down or turn the audiobook off to do things like work my job, take a shower, or go to sleep. I‘d love to be able to finish IT this week!

My progress: page 1037/1477

Also: anyone else love reading in your car? I just love it for some reason 🤷🏻‍♀️

#readingStephenKing

This pup is snoring 💤 while I‘m trying to make a dent in IT.

My progress: page 565/1488

I knew it would be scary, but I‘m really creeped out by IT. I can‘t stand to read it at night 🫣 Most of me is enjoying the journey with King‘s *perfect* characterization and attention to detail, but part of me is ready to be done with it so I‘m not suspicious near sink drains anymore🩸🤡

#readingStephenKing #currentlyreading #MarvellousMarch #dogsoflitsy

Goodness gracious, this is terrifying!

#readingStephenKing

My progress so far in the two Chunksters I‘m #currentlyreading

Page 176/839 in A Game of Thrones
Page 321/1477 in IT

I‘m savoring AGoT while knowing heartache lays ahead. This is my third time reading it. And IT is starting to pick up a bit for me as King continues to lay out the relationship among this group of young friends. IT is quite creepy. And dark. I‘m glad I‘m reading something else along with it.

#readingStephenKing

Three of my favorite bildingsromans are:
1. It by Stephen King—there‘s nothing like a killer paranormal clown to help you transition to adulthood! 🤡
2. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton—I fell in love with this as a teenager and still love it today. This tiny book packs a real emotional wallop! ❤️
3. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward—a lyrical tale of magical realism.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
Thanks for the tag, @dabbe !

My favorite weekend activity is my book, my coffee, and my pup in a quiet house.

I‘m almost 100/1477 pages in. I love the beginnings of King‘s books, where he slowwwly sets the scene and helps us get to know his characters with details that seem unimportant at first but rear their heads as the action starts to take place. There are not many better places to be than the early pages of a Stephen King chunkster. *chef‘s kiss*

I took today off from work (🥳) and I‘m so excited to be starting IT! I feel like I saw the movie when I was younger (far too young to be watching it, probably) but I don‘t remember much of anything about it except for the scary clown and…spiders? I think? Anyway.

I think I‘ll read this one slowly, as a background book while I also read other things. I read The Stand slowly and loved taking my time with it.

#readingStephenKing

#ItTakesAllKinds #FavoriteBookmark of course, couldn‘t pick just one!😁 These are both for that company Out Of Print , that makes fun bookish stuff .

Ho voluto rileggere It in lingua originale anni dopo averlo letto in italiano e sono rimasta scioccata da quanti aspetti orribili di questo libro avevo dimenticato:
King crea sì un gruppo diverso di protagonisti, ma poi comunque esclude in maniera evidente Mike e Stan.
Una donna (e soprattutto una ragazza) ha molto più da offrire che il proprio corpo!
Unico aspetto positivo: scovare Dick Hallorann e Christine in questo libro.

1. I feel like it's a toss up between present day, dystopia futures and 60s-80s.
2. Into the Tide. It was a cute Best Friends sister Romance.
3. It by Stephen King. That book took forever but it was so good.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

5 ⭐️s
How do you condense a 1,000+ page masterpiece into a less than 500 words review?
King always surprises me with how well he can remind me of childhood fear. How well your own imagination can frighten you more than real life. And how that same imagination can be your only weapon against both the real and imagined horrors of this world. I enjoyed how the past and “current” events tied together throughout the book. I love King‘s writing style.🤡

116 pages left.
Is it bedtime? Yes.
Is that coffee in that thermos? Yes.
Am I going to stay up until I finish? Hopefully.
Do I have work tomorrow? Yes, but it‘s Friday so…

Sacrifices must be made! 🤡

“The kind of person who has to have his books divided up into fiction and nonfiction on his shelves…and then wants to have each section in alphabetical order.”

Don‘t call me out like that, Stephen.

“[…] and Bill‘s defroster was simply not big enough to cope with it.”
💔

For every part of IT that I enjoyed there was an equally cringeworthy part I hated. But given the scope of this project, it‘s no surprise, and King is successful in a lot of ways. While it is not his best (written) book I can understand the obsession with it. For me, what really works are the set pieces — the Barrens, the sewer pipes, Derry, the house on Niebolt Street. And of course Pennywise is iconic and truly deserving of Its status in horror.

Supposed to be sleep but still sat up reading. Quick few pages 😂. Up at 6 already 12.10am opposie 😂🤦‍♀️

It all started with the purse! Poor #Georgie 🎈

#HappyHalloween

Omg fangirling and perfect for #scarathlon #teamcryptkeepers @LiseWorks

The one and only book about #fear today for the #scarathlon #photochallenge 🎃I adore this cover it‘s so creepy and nostalgic

#skeletoncrew @Clwojick @StayCurious

Day 22 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Fear/Scare. I read IT during the Summer of 1993 and no other book has ever scared me as much. I laughed and laughed through the first movie adaptation and I haven't watched the newer one because I'm afraid that cinematography might finally be good enough to bring this book to life. I don't need those nightmares again! #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall

#scarathlon #autumnplease #eyesoncover #teamcryptkeepers

Raining perfect reading weather. On way to get bus to my mums. Determained to finish this book by end October.

Watched It. Havent watched it since it came out. Now going to watch chapter two.

Another chapter done on my break. #bookspinbingo :) not doing to bad started chapter last night and finished it on break at work. Will get this book done for october determined to.

1- Pennywise 🤡
2- Darth Sidious 🌑
3- Sauron 👁
# TLT #ThreeListThursday
@dabbe

I‘m about 70% of the way through this monster. It‘s the first time I‘ve really made it this far. It‘s hard to stomach but I can‘t stop listening. Only 12 more hours to go!

My TBR for #scarathlon #BatBrigade @Catsandbooks

My watch list for #scarathlon #BatBrigade @Catsandbooks

I‘m quite proud of how my bookshelf is turning out. I haven‘t had one for a bit.

What are you buying today?!? I hit up Pango for the tagged book because my son loaned mine to his gf who destroyed it and then broke up with him 🤣🤣🤣 #cantmakethisshitup

Good but bloated storytelling, but I found the idea of a clown in the sewers a bit ridiculous from word one, so I never found this scary. And then in the last 60 pages of this 1153 page book is an abhorrent scene, exploiting all the kids and adultifying an 11 year old girl. It‘s disgusting and had I known about it in advance, I would not have read this.

Starting this again bought the paperback as was struggling on kindle some books I have to have the real book in my hand to get teeth into story. Re starting IT - by Stephen king had on kindle since Xmas last year got to p 86 in March and not picked back up.

It a book really want to dig into so decided to try again from scratch

some books I have to have the real book in my hand to get teeth into story. Quick read on my break

Cant sleep so may well have quick read but only set it for 10 mins then I not reading late 😂. Even though been reading on and off since tea time 🤦‍♀️😂.

After being terrified by the miniseries as a kid I never thought I would read this. King is such a good storyteller and the characterization is so in depth already.

I‘ve heard a lot of people say that they save all of their horror for the fall. And I have to admit that I‘ve been guilty about that the past few years. But I‘ve been in a horror mood the last few months and I‘ve been loving the spooky summer feeling. So here are a few of the summertime horror books that I love.

https://wildwoodreads.com/2023/07/14/summertime-horror-book-recommendations/

Phew, finally finished all 45 hours of the audiobook! I get all the criticisms I've heard about this book. It's indeed sprawling and messy, and there are a number of really uncomfortable scenes, but I absolutely loved the story and the characters all the same. I'm quite sure I'll be rereading this book at some future date.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#JoysOfJune @Andrew65

(1986) This was the bestselling novel in the US for 1986. I know this is a favorite for many readers, and I get it -- I love the blend of personal and cosmic horror, and SK knows how to stage it effectively. But I find his sprawling prose style exasperating, the wink-nudge racism hasn't aged well, and there's a scene near the end that left me needing a brain bleach, not to mention holding an #unpopularopinion.

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

#TemptingTitles #OneWord