pickWhile nothing in this anthology blew my mind I enjoyed each story! A lot of Poe's macabre plots creep me out even more when enacted by teens. Plus: the stories that did the inspiring are included too!
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pickWhile nothing in this anthology blew my mind I enjoyed each story! A lot of Poe's macabre plots creep me out even more when enacted by teens. Plus: the stories that did the inspiring are included too!
I may be only 40 pages in, but yeah, I was needlessly worried about not liking this book. #screamathon
Tomorrow I'll start The Tribe, a book I have heard unfailingly good things about. I am (baselessly) concerned I won't like it. #screamathon
so-soDecided to push through the end of this one tonight. It's a weird one - it has all of Greenhall's classic pointed prose, but nothing happens SO MUCH, especially for a book about a muder chain letter! I wish so badly that I liked it better.
#screamathon
Preeeety casual about this poisoning, everybody! #RIPGracetheCat
Can't believe I'm on my second horror novel of the year about a painter dad and the mystery he gets embroiled in. #screamathon
Anyone doing NaNoWriMo this year? I have only done it successfully once, in 2013, but I want to try again this year.
I must be misremembering the Ken Greenhall description in Paperbacks From Hell, because this Teenhall cannot possibly be for teens, despite looking like a teen scream and being about a chain letter. The main character is a cognac selling, antique mirror collecting guy on his way to divorce town with A Lot of thoughts about likability, human interactions, and portraiture. Classic Greenhall, with absolutely zero regard that a teen might be reading.
Next up is the teen Ken Greenhall, which I will henceforth call the Teenhall.
#screamathon
so-soGotta say, I was hoping for a more supernatural Shopping But Evil, but this book is mostly Corporations But More with a supernatural gloss. Libing here in 2019 I'm already acquainted with the evils of capitalism (which are super evil, to be fair). Thr ending seems naive 20+ years on and the main character isn't really forced to reckon with the absolute worst thing he did. It was a fast read, though.
I'm in the last 70 pages or so and just hit the end of chapter 33, which is Very Ominous, and all I have to say is that if something happens to the Sixth I am going to FLIP a SHIT
(If something happens to the Ninth I will be destroyed, but I simply cannot see that happening)
My (admittedly modest) #Screamathon tbr! The top three are books I am partway through and hoping to finish soon. Gotta say, of the untouched I am most excited for the Ken Greenhall rarity that had me gasping out loud at the used bookstore when I found it.
#screamathonphotochallenge
I was hoping to wrap this up before October 1st, so I could slide cleanly into #Screamathon reading buuuuut a book this chock full of necromancers has to half count, right?
Just reached the end of Act 2 and all I can say is OH NO THE FIFTH
I am REALLY enjoying this book, but I don't really have anything clever to say about it. It's good!
Pretty damn bold of this incredibly un-diverse book to give Harlan Ellison some space to shit on the entire genre of rap music.
As many times as I have seen this cover I never realized that these are sunglasses.
pickYeah, that would have been a one sitting read if I had started it earlier in the day. The perfect read to help me bounce back from back-to-back bails.
quick midnight shout out to Good Books: they are real and they are my friend
bailedDang, so close to the end, but this chapter about Tess of the d'Ubervilles and sexual assault is the last straw. This book is from the 90's and is about Victorian literature, but I'm alive right now and I don't have to fucking read it.
The author just posited that The Picture of Dorian Gray is disturbing from the first paragraph because the reader knows that roses and lilac are not simultaneously in their strongest bloom and that seems like a lot to expect from me, an idiot.
Between the early going of this book and all of "Is Heathcliff A Murderer?" I am absolutely parched for a modern book.
I feel like the only thing I'm learning from this book is that there are a number of classic novels I have no interest in reading...
Very interested to see the picks in this book. A quick glance at the table of contents seems to reveal only 2 books by women, which is Not Good!
In case you were wondering, the answer of the title question (at least in the author's eyes) is "probably, but you can't prove it."
I have owned this Staryk King candle forever, but I am finally burning it (to see if I want to buy more from this store) and it smells SO wintery delicious, I love it.
Gotta say, it's pretty bold of me to read this book when I have read Very Little of the classic literature discussed within! #maverick #insufferable
Now for something Completely Different!
I am quite taken with the way my book mail's spines go together!
pickI am currently A Sad so I read A Book and just let myself feel some emotions. I'd love this one even without using it as an emotion valve!
I've been in a bad mood for a week plus, so I'm a ticking time bomb, but that was always going to ake me burst into tears.
Decided I probably shouldn't just read horror books until the day after Halloween, I guess.
pickSome parts were predictable, some Were Not, and all parts made an enjoyable little ride. The scares are pretty mild, but hanging out with this sad painting man who (eventually) suspects that he may have been caught up in a conspiracy delighted me regularly.
Me and my wall that is entirely mirrors just read a scary story about mirrors, but the thing that sets me and my wall apart from the story is that me and my wall don't hate women. #TheHungryHouse
Update: so far The Reaping is about a secretly tragic man who paints. I'm have a good time, but this is a Slow Burn.
Meanwhile, I have no idea what this book is about. Bad nuns?
Back on physical books because I want horror and it's easier to locate outside of my overstuffed kindle.
