Welcome to Litsy!

The #AwesomeApril #Readathon has come to an end. Hooray! I exceeded my goals!

My goals were to:
✅ finish Skeleton Crew - 177 pages
✅ start The Hundred and One Dalmatians - 23 pages ➡️ 66 pages
📗 Bonus! I also read 90 pages of UDL Now!
= 200 pages ➡️ 333 pages

Thanks again @Andrew65 !

#DogsOfLitsy

It‘s time for an #AwesomeApril #Readathon progress update.
☠️ Skeleton Crew: 85 pages
🍎 UDL Now!: 90 pages
🧮 Total: 175 pages
🍀 Still planning to finish the last 92 pages of Skeleton Crew, and start another book

Thanks again for hosting @Andrew65 !

Photo BOMBadil!
#DogsOfLitsy

I read 2 more stories from Skeleton Crew for the #AwesomeApril #Readathon with @Andrew65 !

It‘s almost time for the #AwesomeApril #Readathon with @Andrew65 !

My goals are to:
☠️ finish Skeleton Crew - 177 pages to go
🐶 start The Hundred and One Dalmatians - 23 pages
= 200 pages

Good luck to everyone else reading along!

SKELETON CREW | Stephen King

In between novels I enjoy short stories. They‘re quick, fun, & often fulfilling😊📖👍

This collection is not to be missed. It consists of many of King‘s most well-known shorts, including THE JAUNT (absolutely terrifying), SURVIVOR-TYPE (disturbingly compelling), the novella THE MIST (cosmic creatures), and many more. After your current novel—if the urge strikes—perhaps sample a short story before your next big read!

💐 Time for a #MarvellousMarch #Readathon update!

My goals are to:
✅ keep up with my Skeleton Crew IG group/read p. 271-403 - done!
🐎 finish Gordath Wood - currently I‘m on p. 131/328

Thanks again @Andrew65 !

I broke my own rule and wrote in a book! I‘m doing a readalong on IG, and I thought it would be a time- saver to write all the discussion dates in the table of contents.
✏️ Are you pro writing in your books, or opposed?

The Mist

Not the greatest collection of King short stories, but there is certainly a lot of variety in this bunch. Starting it out with "The Mist" made all the remaining stories pale in comparison though.

Overall, I liked the mixture and I didn't dislike any, so still a pick even though none of them really blew me away.

I took a break from Stephen King for the month of November because all of my library holds were coming in at once but I am ready to dive back down the rabbit hole.

A fun re-read for Halloween… I especially enjoyed ‘Mrs Todd‘s Shortcut‘, ‘Word Processor of the Gods‘ & ‘The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet‘

A whopping 4.5 hrs reading for #20in4 🙈 and here‘s my list for #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo

#Haunted @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Prompt: Skeleton

#haunted #skeleton

There are 21 shorts in this collection. I listened to 20 (skipped The Mist because I've read that one already). There were a handful, The Jaunt (one of the shortest and best imo), Uncle Otto's Truck, and The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, that were quite good. The rest...not so much. As a whole, I'd give the collection 3 stars. This was my #doublespin book.
@TheAromaofBooks
#scarathlon #teamhendrix @StayCurious
(15×20)+1+(10h×10×13r)=1,601

#anywayyoureadathon Goals:

💀 Finish Skeleton Crew 🎧
💀 Finish Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay 🎧
💀 Finish Stranger Things: Rebel Robin 📖
💀 Read Finlay Donavan is Killing It 📱

@kimmypete1 @Eggbeater @MidnightBookGirl

#LittensDressedInBlood Today's prompt is Monster Mash

I have vivid memories of listening to this book in the late 80's on a trip from VA to PA with my dad. It was winter time, and gray and cloudy and rainy, and at the time the “3-D“ audio made it feel like we were trapped in the mist ourselves, waiting for the monsters to pounce.

Congrats @TheLudicReader
1. The Reach by Stephen King (short story in tagged book) - it is one of the few stories I have remembered title/author/story for years - it stayed with me
2. The Reach by Stephen King - it is not a horror/scary story - it is a good King to read for people who don't like horror/scary -

I read several stories from this Stephen King collection. My favorites were The Mist and The Monkey. I also caught Boo: A Madea Halloween. +236 #TeamHarkness #Scarathlon2020 #Screamathon2020

@Sace @4thhouseontheleft Looking forward to #cyoreadathon and #screamathon - picked some fun anthologies to work on and the buddy read for #teamHarkness in #Scarathlon2020. It's going to be a fun month.

Some mornings you just need coffee, a donut, and Stephen King, ya feel me?

I made a bookstagram guys! Feel free to give me a follow over there at bookscatsandcrime.

#stephenking #skeletoncrew

The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet

#stephenking #skeletoncrew

Clocking in at 640 pages, Skeleton Crew is King's second longest story collection. The first 150 pages are comprised of The Mist. This is a masterpiece of existential horror, on par with Pet Sematary. The rest of the book has works that stand out more than others & I will definitely be rereading certain stories in the future. It was great becoming more familiar with Castle Rock, the setting for many of these stories.

I've been told, more than a few times, that patience is one of my best personal characteristics. Even I have limits to my patience, & it's waiting in line! I hate to say it, but I see myself in the last sentence. 😂 I have to go grocery shopping later today & I'm starting to think that it's bad luck, or some kind of omen, to read The Mist the same day.

This was a weird mix of stories. My favorite was The Mist (which ends differently than the movie). I'm starting to really like King's story collections because they are so different 🐒
#losersclub
#24b4Monday 5 hrs down @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

I'M NOT LATE THIS MONTH!
Discussion starts NOW!
#LosersClub

Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a SPOILER. Find the post for #SkeletonCrew & tap “show me“ on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag any of us & we‘ll jump in to discuss with you. See you there!

I'm not a huge fan of short stories, but I like Stephen King, so I thought I'd read this collection. Some of the stories were really great, some of them were pretty good, and some of them just weren't. The Mist was absolutely my favorite of all the stories! #ReadingThroughTheYears192021 #1985

This morning's #coffeeandabook. While it definitely feels like fall and sweater weather here in Florida this morning, it's going to be 82 degrees again tomorrow. 🌞😟🌞

#FallIsBooked There's some pretty creepy #Supernatural stuff going on in Skeleton Crew, my current read.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Sorry for being so tardy and for all the posts in one day, #losersclub. October‘s book is the short story collection #SkeletonCrew! Grab your copy and check back around November 18th for open discussion!

#SkeletonCrew #LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion #ShortStories

I've been in a mood for short stories lately, seems like the perfect time to finally read #Skeleton Crew. Seems like opinion is pretty evenly divided as to which is a better collection, Night Shift or Skeleton Crew. I'll have to decide for myself.
#screamathonphotochallenge
@4thhouseontheleft

Continuing my on time posting... Just a reminder that October‘s #losersclub read is #SkeletonCrew! Buy, borrow, or beg your copy and check back in next month when we begin reading. Discussion will be in November. I‘ll be #ghosthosting this one, but everyone is welcome to join in!

Day 19: I read this too young. #riotgrams #amreading #bookworm #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookish #igreads #instabooks #booknerdigans #author #bookblogger #tsundoku #writeropolis #greatreads #readmorebooks #raconteuse #coolgirlsread #latepost

#neverever ate ladyfingers again... #anglophileapril

First cup of coffee finished. First short story of the morning read.

Hope your Sunday includes as much caffeine and reading as you want!

Waiting room reading.

#2018Book124
#SummerOfStephen
#KingAndI
#ShortStoryCollection2

#TBRTuesday

Our next stop for All Horror October is an episode about our worst fears. We‘ll be reading THE RAFT by Stephen King for Becca‘s phobia. It can be found in his collection SKELETON CREW. Or you can read it online, for free!

I appreciate the throwback decore tucked away in my small town library‘s study corners.

Needed a little short story between books and “The Mist” was just the interlude needed.

Bedtime stories!

My August tbr hopefuls. I read them right to left, starting with Stephen King. Backwards, I know.
#stephenking #jamespaterson #charlaineharris #tessgerritsen #suegrafton #lisajackson #jrward #radclyffe #mystery #horror #suspense #thriller #drama #romance #tbr #august2018

Loved this older collection of short stories. 🖤 🐒 I like having a physical book of short stories on my reading pile. It breaks up my other current reads and I think helps me tackle my gigantic TBR pile. 📚

Overall, I liked this a lot! I really enjoyed most of the stories, the odd one I found a little dull but definitely a pick for short stories like “The Mist” and “The Ballad Of the Flexible Bullet”. My first ever book of short stories: ✅

#KingAtoZ

W is for Word Processor of the Gods; a short story written by King, collected in Skeleton Crew and made into an episode of that awesome 80‘s series; Tales From The Darkside. It tells the story of a disenchanted writer whose nephew dies, leaving him a birthday gift of a homemade word processor that has the ability to affect reality when used. It‘s one of those “three wishes” type stories that has a happier turnout than The Monkey‘s Paw.

#KingAtoZ

O is ... For Owen, King‘s youngest, a novelist in his own right & co- author of Sleeping Beauties.

This snippet is from Skeleton Crew. King doesn‘t do a lot of poetry, but when he does it‘s very personal.

@GarthRanzz