pickCarrie White does not have it easy. She is unpopular at school and subjected to her mother‘s religious fanaticism at home. She also has a secret: she can move things with her mind. When she feels like she‘s been given a chance to be normal, an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror.
This was a reread. Always as good as the first time I read it.
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#ReadAway2024 #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge
#TPRC #TheDoubeR
pickIt had been several years since my last reread of this one, and this spring it just felt right to pick it up. There is SO much to love about this delightful book, and I loved revisiting it. I will say that at one point it feels like Burnett kind of gets a little weird about “the Magic“ but overall this is still a heart book.
Pictured with some of the flats of annuals I purchased today... getting ready to get my own garden going!!!
pickPratchett has been on my radar for quite some time, but I've never actually jumped in. So when @julesg said that the #OokBookClub was starting over, this seemed like a great time to give his writing a whirl. I enjoyed but wasn't mind-blown by this one, but the consensus seems to be that it isn't his best, and this was still an easy pick. I'm looking forward to working through some of these, as I found the characters, world-building, and humor ⬇
Spending my “appreciate you covering extra shifts” gift card on cat food for the domesticated mountain lion and a book for me.
#TPRC prompt 5 Deputy Hawk: book by #indigenousauthor (no matter which country)
@Yuki_Onna
Yesterday was the 24th of April, time for the drawing of #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge 's featured prompt of April/May. Sorry I'm one day late, but... Yesterday has been incredibly taxing, I just couldn't.
Remember, it is completely optional whether you try to prioritise the prompt or not! It's a bit of added spice for those who feel like it.
This month the prompt is 5. Deputy Hawk - a book by an indigenous author.
#TPRC #TwinPeaks #indigenousauthors
pickDespite the cover blurb, I don't think I would term this one as “nail-biting“. However, it did keep me turning the pages. This is a sort of character-study thriller, with a slow reveal of backstories and motivations, exploring both a current and past case. While I did have some mixed feelings about some aspects, overall I enjoyed it and actually reserved the second book at the library. 😁
I seriously slacked off on my Stephen King reading plan, so I‘m starting back at the beginning.
Using this for #TheDoubleR (Book title with two ‘R‘s exactly) #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge #TPRC
#ReadAway2024
pickWent into my favorite used bookshop looking for Deadwood, but came out with a copy of Pete Dexter's other masterpiece. A pitch-perfect illustration of small-town dynamics and repression, and a powerful warning of what happens when you allow evil to linger too long unchecked. Paris Trout is one of the more disturbing characters in fiction, a perfect embodiment of a certain type of paranoid rage that seems to exist everywhere now.
A little book splurging therapy after enduring a chaotic work week. I ordered all of them online since they‘re listed as out of stock at my B&N. And now I wait for the Shanghai star crossed lovers and their gang to arrive in the mail. Except Our Violent Ends. That‘s a pre-order to a June release.
#TPRC
@Yuki_Onna
pickA good mystery with its roots in the Nazi occupation of Denmark during WWII, but I think the author was trying too hard with her private investigator hero, giving him a few too many quirks.
This works for quite a few #TPRC prompts, but I‘m going for #6 #DamnFineCoffee
