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I am about to start The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

One review says: Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton.

There is also a review by King on the back of third book in the series.

I'm afraid to read The Strain because I love the tv series and I'm afraid I won't continue to like the series if the book is much better y'know?
 

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I'm afraid to read The Strain because I love the tv series and I'm afraid I won't continue to like the series if the book is much better y'know?
Please do read the trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, and The Night Eternal, I think the tv series and the books are both good and I don't think they conflict.
 

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Reading Don't You Forget About Me by Jancee Dunn.
It was practically free and I need something light after the Caroline Kepnes novels.
This one is "women's fiction", so if the husband doesn't want her back (only for her to rebuff him this time) and if she doesn't find love again with her high school crush and decide maybe she does want kids after all I will eat my hat.
Actually, I don't have a hat.
But I will make a hat-shaped pancake and eat that if all my predictions don't come true.
 
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Please do read the trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, and The Night Eternal, I think the tv series and the books are both good and I don't think they conflict.

...I really enjoyed the novels and I think the series does them justice....

A tv series or film based on a novel that's actually based on the novel? What an interesting idea! I hope it catches on :)
 

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I am reading A Little Life by Hanna Yanagihara, very intense, and for a some relief from that intensity The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews.
I am about half way through A Little Life. Ms. Yanagihara has put together her words so very well that I respond out loud in shock at times! This book is grim but the story fascinates. I will pick up from the library today The Curse of the Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones; this is I hope will give me a respite every hundred pages from the story of a little life and Jude St. Francis.
 
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I finished reading Amulet. It was a bit of a gore-fest lol. I would love to know how y'all interpreted the ending.

I've now read four books by McDowell - The Elementals, Blackwater, Cold Moon Over Babylon, and Amulet. I think my favorite is The Elementals. I'm still haunted by that sand and the mood of the story is a bit similar to Duma Key. Duma Key is one of my most favoritist stories.

I gots to quit reading McDowell for a bit. I've started talking like his characters. Last night I told hubby, "I done ate half them peanut butter cookies".
 

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I started reading House of Leaves last night.
The intro was pretty good, then the start of the main report seemed a bit tedious. Very slow at first and the flicking between the different texts and references seemed a little jarring to be honest. I did wonder if I was going to enjoy it, next thing I knew, I was 50 odd pages in and could feel it slowly sinking it's claws in. So far, so good! :)
 
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