Welcome to Litsy!

IT is now officially a beach read. 😂

I have always considered myself a horror weenie, but reading this with a book group, looking at IT as an allegory for fascism, I‘m really enjoying this book. Of course, I‘m only a fourth of the way through, so we‘ll see… 🎈

I‘m Pennywise, my 11 year old is Art the Clown. The killer clown selfie was his idea. 🤡😆 #HappyHalloween

Current read and pilot ep. 🎧📺🎈🤡

#it #itwelcometoderry #stephenking #tvseries #ebook #audiobook #goodreads #bookstoscreen #totefairie

Hope this doesn‘t suck 🤣

even the toughest
guys need a break now and then —
you must treat yourself. 🎈🤡 🚬

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #It #StephenKing #pennywise #TimCurry #funny

My “Halloween” decor. 🤡📚

the king of horror
carefully crafts creepy tales
to scare our socks off.

Can‘t wait for the new show coming out this month on HBO — IT: Welcome To Derry. 😱

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #StephenKing

Here are my Stephen King recommendations for #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew 🐈‍⬛
@PuddleJumper

Seen on FB! 🤣
🤡🎈☔️

Five Below coming in clutch this week! #losersclub

This summer, the in-person Constant Reader book club I attend read “It,” by Stephen King. It was an excellent choice for a summer read! Since the book is quite lengthy, our facilitator divided it into three parts to cover our meetings in July, August, and September. This was a reread for me, as I had first read it in 2017. I was delighted to reread “It” as I remembered loving it the first time.

Full Review abookandadog.com/blog/it

Your heart will be afloat too 🤣 Going through a bunch of old paperwork and found this bizarre precious moments Valentine clown

Thank you @PaperbackPirate for telling me about this duck!!! #losersclub #stephenking #it

We had to make a pit stop in Bangor to see Stephen King's old house. Rumor has it that most of It was written here, which checks out especially when you turn the corner and see the massive Paul Bunyan statue...

Thanks for the tag @dabbe

Scored 21%

3 Faves
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
It
The Green Mile

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

“Beep beep Richie”

In honor of her birthday, @wanderlinglynn is hosting a lovely swap. Thanks, m'dear, and happiest of birthdays!

#49bdaygiveaway

I can't believe I've never read this book. It's been on my TBR forever! 😱

It is more than just a horror novel; it is a literary exploration of the human condition. Highly recommended.

You‘ll float, too. 🎨🤡

How cute are these earring I found for Halloween and for one of my favorite authors!! I am currently in Maine on vacation and lots of people struck up a conversation over these earrings 🥰

👀🖤 Looking for a book that might make you sleep with the lights on?

Our list of Halloween Books is packed with chills and thrills. But don‘t worry, we promise you they‘re soo worth the nightmares. 😈📖

Check them all out here and have a frightfully good time! 🕸️👉 https://blog.getbookly.com/13-halloween-books-for-readers-who-want-to-creep-it-r...

#halloween #halloweenbooks #spookyreads

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