Bag Of Bones!! (Sorry Achtung!!
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This one's in my top five as well. At times I couldn't see the pages for the tears...
Started Mercedes. I'm really digging it. Makes me consider, in my next life after I've read all sK stuff, reading some classic detective fiction. I'm really proud of sK for writing this book and so well.
Started Carrion Comfort from Dan Simmons, winner of the 1990 Bram Stoker Award...and if you are ever in need of a title to read, any winner of the many awards is a good place to start...almost any. Have only read Drood from Simmons...and there's this bit about writing time on something a block of wood or something throwing it into the water, the time when you want to awake...and in Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent Ethan Allen Hawley does just that...another great story, read it yay ago and that time-writing struck me as I was in the need of getting up early reasons my own now and forevermore...so that's what I did...forgot about it though until I reread Steinbeck this past year and now here I find the same idea in Simmons, Saul, imagining (a tad of the time passages), just before he fell asleep, a smooth, oval rock upon which he wrote the hour and minute in which he wished to awake...was hoping he'd have ripped out their jugulars boy howdy.
Started reading The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft. That's one book I just have to read, finally I decided to do that.
I finished The Shell Collector, by Anthony Doerr. What an amazing handful of stories! Short fiction can be hit or miss with me and I think some of that has to with my lack of knowledge about the craft involved. But these were story-telling in it's purest form. All of the pieces were contemporary and yet they carried a kind "fable-ness" to them for lack of a better term. And his descriptions of the natural world are beautiful, not only for the flora and fauna, but the way the characters live within it.
I am reading Natchez Burning by Greg Iles and boyoboy we took off running and we are still moving fast!
Reading The Dark Half at the moment with Graham Masterton's The Doorkeepers up next.
I need to get myself a copy of Mr. Mercedes ASAP too.
I need to get myself a copy of Mr. Mercedes ASAP too.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I started My Pretty Pony by SK last night but had to go to sleep so I could get up early this morning.
the Best American Mystery Stories, 2000. Donald E.Westlake, editor.
It isn't in my to-be-read pile but I think I'm going to do my first re-read of It. Feels like a good time of year to do so. Every time I look at it, the size and scope of it just scare me. Haven't read It since it was published back in the '80's, so it'll be like reading a brand new book for me!
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I am so jealous, I wish I could go into IT as a virtual 1st timer. I might just reread it soon anyway, it's been well over a year since I last read it.
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
I have started David Jason - My Life (british tv legend's autobiography). I'm unsure yet whether I will read it all in one go or read chunks here and there in between novels.
Started my re-read last night. It's like falling into a well- there's nothing else around me at all, just the story. King has managed once again to immerse me in his tale and I'm loving it! I was afraid that I was going to suffer from the problem I've been having lately, while reading books, that I wouldn't be able to just forget everything else that is going on in my little world and be swept away in the tale, but King has taken me away into his world again. Yippee!
Im still into that world. Convinced that some of the people,creatures in it are real. That's a story thats never left me and never will. You're lucky to read it for the first time.
Getting to the middle of Natchez Burning and must pick up from the library my reserved copy of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
Patient Zero. The changes in narration between first person and third person are bugging me on this one 
Too bad, because it's an interesting premise.
Too bad, because it's an interesting premise.
Hi Kurben. Actually, it's not my first time reading It. I read it when it was first published, but have never done a re-read. I have tried to re-read all of King's books at least once and have always been put off by the size and scope of It, thus never picking it back up to re-read for all of these years.
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