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1️⃣ The clear skies at night, when there are millions of stars visible.

2️⃣ Definitely has to be The Shining by Stephen King, which I'm due a re-read of.

Thanks for the tag @PageShifter

I tag @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

#Two4tuesday
1. Christmas 🎄 I love Christmas lights and gift giving. I love making Christmas cookies and spending time with family. Other than that, I hate winter.
2. The Shining. I love Stephen King books and this is one of my all time favorites. I would love to visit the Overlook hotel someday.

@TheSpineView

A friend made me the awesome new cup & my Stephen King loving heart couldn't be happier. I think Jack Torrence approves as well!! 😬😜

I feel as if I have been checked into the Overlook Hotel the past week. And much like the Torrence family, I could not escape this terrifying book. So scary and so well done.

I‘ve locked doors and slept with lights on this past week as I made it through this terrifying tale. Like Danny in the story, I could not make my mind shut off as I pondered the family‘s fate through the work week. There will be more King on my horizon… but I need to read something a bit more mellow next.

The Shining by Stephen King is a horror novel charting the psychological decline of the main character. Read my book review at John C Adams Reviews.

https://www.johncadamsreviews.com/single-post/the-shining-by-stephen-king

#horror #StephenKing

#manicmonday #letters @CBee

📕 Tagged
🖊️ VE Schwab
🍿 The silence of the lambs
🎤 Slayer
🎵 Saturday night-Misfits

Right after I downloaded my hold from Libby it started snowing here. 🌨🤨❄️

Creepiest of his books so far for me. Not gory, just creepy.

Thank you @wen4blu !
I apologize for the post office fiasco. I was glad it shipped and made it to my place and not shipped back to you.
Myself and my kiddo love the candy!
Super excited to read the books.

I will definitely be doing more of these! It was lots of fun.
#allhallowsreadswap

@Eggs #WondrousWednesday Thanks for the tag @peanutnine
1. The Shining was the first book #death #ScarathlonDailyPrompts
(Poseidon Adventure first movie because my parents took us to drive in to see it we were living on the coast that summer, I was about 9 - feared a tidal wave would come🤦‍♀️)
2. Recently read book - The Witches by Roald Dahl
3. Browns and oranges and greens

#Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash

Make a great day everyone 🎃🧙

Stephen King is the master of horror and the king of dread; this is clearly evident in the masterpiece that is The Shining.

Jack Torrance‘s whirlwind descent into madness is pure terror within the pages, and you just know that shit is going to hit the fan! Realistic horrors such as alcoholism blend seamlessly with supernatural elements, creating a truly terrifying read.

🎧 📚 I loved the book! You know the story. You‘ve seen the Jack Nicholson movie. The book was great!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️2/3

#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Scared
@StayCurious

I let the boyfriend select the next movie and he chose Kubrick‘s The Shining. +11 pts #scarathlon #TeamMonsterMash

I love The Shining, despite my reservations about Jack Torrance as a character. This book breathes with unexpected life, much like The Overlook within, delighting me again and again with the bright personality and heartbreaking innocence of young Danny Torrance. Providing readers with such a vulnerable and winning protagonist truly amplifies the terror felt as Danny tries to avoid being claimed by the malevolent spirit of The Overlook. 5/5

@SeaToSkyes These are your choices for #TrappedOnAnIsland I assume from the choices available they‘re also for #Scarathlon2022? I hope you enjoy the ones I‘ve picked for you, I‘ve read 3 and the other 2 are on my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom Good luck! @Clwojick 1pt

The first time I read this, I was in middle school, and Jack seemed like a tortured academic who had made some "bad choices".

The second time, I liked him a lot less, but couldn't quite put my finger on why.

This time around, I've cracked it - Jack Torrance is a classic abuser, and demonstrates wildly toxic patterns of behavior (including gaslighting and coercive control!) before he even gets to The Overlook. No wonder he made me feel ooky!

1. The Shining 👻
2. Drinking coffee right now! ☕️
3. I love fall! Halloween stuff, wedding anniversary, and mom might come visit! 🍁

@Blueberry @rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

Stephen King was the first author I know that wouldn‘t let his CD‘s be abridged! I bought every book he put out on CD! First King book, was a silver paperback of The Shining. He revolutionized audiobooks. (I could be making that up but that‘s how I remember it) Happy Birthday to one of my favorite autobuy authors! @Reggie 🥳♥️🤗♥️🤗♥️🤗♥️🎉

I really, really hated this book. Maybe it‘s King‘s writing, but it‘s just not for me. It was misogynistic, racist, and gave me the biggest ick. I might read Doctor Sleep, because I wanna know what happens, but I‘m not happy about it.

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/the-shining/
#horror #thriller #disappointed

#alphabetgame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

- One if my favourite books of all time, the film is also great -

Read this so many years ago but definitely one of the scariest I‘ve ever read

So I think I went into this book with way too high of expectations. I always heard it was crazy and scary, I've also never seen the movie. And I was really let down. I didn't think this was scary, and there was a part where I was just reading newspaper clipping for so long I almost fell asleep. 2/5 unfortunately.

Visiting The Stanley Hotel after a full day of hiking at the national park. So far, no ghosts.

J'ai beaucoup apprécié la lecture de ce roman, assise à une petite table sur le balcon de ma cours arrière. Ma vue alternait ainsi entre les mots couchés sur la page et les plantes devant moi. L'agréable et subtile odeur de celles-ci envahissait mes narines, agrémentant du même coup mon expérience. Je sentais les pages fines et délicates au toucher, typique des livres de poche, glisser entre mes mains à toute vitesse tellement j'étais bien.

I was surprised with a late birthday gift from my sister and couldn't stop laughing. This just may be the best thing I have ever been given and the perfect addition to my King shelf.

This one looks like a fun one!

1. Hmmmmm...I tend to go to the forest when I want to get away from everyone so I say the forest.
2. Tagged (been meaning to read it for years)
3. The thought that you are all alone and not know if you are ever going to get help or see another friendly face again.

@ozma.of.oz #sundayfunday

Who doesn't love The Shining? Reread for me and where I left off last time I attempted to #ReadKing
Already got the next book in queue so I'm ready! This one will always be a favourite and I always find the audio absolutely fantastic when it gets to the hard scenes 😱

#BookspinBingo #AestheticallyMatched #Roll100 #MarvelousMay @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @PuddleJumper @Andrew65

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”

“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”

“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”

“Small children are great accepters. They don‘t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

Scary! 😳

Danny Torrance has something called the shining. When his dad gets a job at the hotel during the winter, they learn that the hotel has some secrets of its own.

1. Horror, specifically ghost stories.
2. The Shining
3. Richard Matheson
#sundayfunday
@ozma.of.oz

March 24 #SavvySettings Remote Inn Well I had too! @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

March 12 #SavvySettings Haunted House. I've never read the book, the movie was enough! @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 204.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

Haunting, terrifying, and a horrible insight into the unravelling of a mind, falling into insanity.

The hotel is creepy, filled with horrors around every corner, I felt so sorry for Danny and everything he had to face and overcome.

Jacks battle with the hotel was raw, hard to read, and as one of his final acts to tell his son how much he loved him - you knew the hotel did not win.

Another enjoyable novel from SK.

1. I love them

2. Anna from Anna Dressed in Blood

3. Does a Haunted Hotel count?

Thanks for the tag @Yuki_Onna

#SundayFunday
@ozma.of.oz

A slow burning terror-ific novel that beautifully yet tragically depicts the degradation of human mind.

"Thoughts are our thread to sanity but they are also the evil demons that severe the same thread to rot in an insane drudgery."

a surprisingly quick read. more suspenseful than scary but still very good. definitely better than pet semetary imo.

Late to this one, but now's the time... 😊

❄Tagged.

❄ One very personal goal regarding my loves

❄This nice sunny day and four people in my life

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Tagging everybody who hasn't played this one yet and wants to! 😊

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I‘m not a fast reader, but the #losersclub has inspired me to read King in order. I seem to recall that there is more to Danny and Hallorann than just this story, right? Next up, The Night Shift.

The Shining is the perfect winter book to creep you out this holiday! 🖤🎄🖤
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I still remember the first time I read The Shining a few years ago. Alone, in my house, during a 6ft dump of snow. I've never been so creeped out by a book in my life. The atmosphere was just so spot on I even had anxiety throughout my read. It was so perfect. So now to me it will always be a holiday book.

For some reason my family finds this bookend that was on my holiday wishlist….disturbing. 🤷‍♂️😂

I just currently ended reading The shining😂and hell this book played with my head. This book is creepy more than scary. It's a slow pace book but very captivating and the ending just gave me goosebumps when the hotels get blow-up the description as if I could just feel it.
The book showcases the evil inside us.

It‘s kind of cool when you get room 217 at a lodge that you are staying at.

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”