Still waiting on my McCammon's. 
Currently reading: "How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You."
Currently reading: "How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You."
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I'm reading Pet Sematary now. I just got past the part where
. This book will never be a favorite because it's so unrelentingly DARK.
Norma Crandall has a heart attack on Halloween
It's definately not a comedy.....
I just started Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman's new anthology. My, but he is a master of the craft.
Started The Girl on the Train yesterday. So far it is very good. The chapters are from shifting points of view, between 2 characters. It reminds me of Gone Girl in that way, and also because the 2 characters are not very likeable people, very flawed personalities. I hope it doesn't get crummy like Gone Girl did at the end.
Y'all are really making me rethink reading Gone Girl.
I finished The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy. That's the second of his books I've read and I feel like I need a shower after to clean off the rampant corruption, sleaze and violence.
I started two new ones: The Bone Season , by Samantha Shannon and John Fowles's, The French Lieutenants Woman.
I started two new ones: The Bone Season , by Samantha Shannon and John Fowles's, The French Lieutenants Woman.
I thought it was good, up to the end. I just didn't believe the end. I just rolled my eyes. It isn't one I will ever read again, but it was a quick and easy read.
All the way through GG, I kept asking myself and other people who had read it, should I continue this, is this going somewhere, what the heck? I did finish it and all I can say is, meh.
What McCammon, Mz Flake, do you await?Still waiting on my McCammon's.
Currently reading: "How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You."
I have GG on my e-reader, but the consensus seems to be meh, as Haunted so aptly put it. I think I'll pass as there are so many on my TBR list, that heeding the board members is the way to proceed.
Once the roads thaw out I will pick up at the library: The condition by Jennifer Haigh, The Boy who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue and The Last Talk With Lola Faye by Thomas Cook
I liked this one very much and thought it kept its pace through to the end. Let me know what you think when you finish!
Boy's Life and Swan Song, from The Book Depository. I'm excited to read them... the waiting is getting difficult.
For all of you out there who likes some really good YA fiction that can be enjoyed just as much by grownups i can recommend The Engelsfors Trilogy by Mats Strandberg & Sara B. Elfgren. The first book is called The Circle, followed by Fire and The Key. Yes, the authors are swedish but they are better than most authors in this area. This is realistic with a touch of witches and good and evil and in the middle 6 teenage girls who don't even like each other very much but somehow must cooperate to win against the bad guys. Classes above Harry Potter in my opinion. In so many ways. It is not a funny story so if you're looking for a laugh you won't find many. These girls are in trouble on many levels, not just with the bad guys, and they know it and they act like it. Worth reading. I'm glad i did.
Boboboy you are in for a treat.
I passed on buying a Gone Girl paperback for a quarter at the thrift store yesterday.
Reading it now...I like the back-and-forth, the narrative style. I'd read The Silent Wife and had seen many reviews comparing it to Gone Girl...to the point where I'd decided if I ever saw a copy of Gone Girl I was going to throw it as far away from me as possible. The Silent Wife is an excellent story...there's a kind of poetry to how she uses language (at times)...but the writer passed and we won't be getting any more from her. My wife was at a sale...someone moving...needing to lighten the load...and she came home with an assortment, a handful of books included, Gone Girl one of the books. The Silent Wife has a back-and-forth, husband p.o.v. Wife's p.o.v. Told present tense...chapters titled "Him"..."Her".
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann...audiobook...
To save money they use carrier pigeons and Swan Song is a big book. It probably took a break on an ice flow.
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