So sorry your are sick with the flu! Hope you start feeling better soon. ((((kingricefan))))
What Are You Reading?
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Thanks! I hate being sick.
bummer hope you feel better soon.
Thank you, Linda!
I am reading lost boy lost girl by Peter Straub and memoirs of an imaginary friend by Matthew Dicks. I am struggling with Mr. Straub's book, its a great story but.... Memoirs is told from the point of view of an imaginary friend of an autistic boy, 'tis a very compelling story.*
* These titles are in lower case on the front covers of each book.
* These titles are in lower case on the front covers of each book.
I think some of them have been found. Dead. But not anywhere close to where quick said they would be. None really believes anymore that it was one murderer behind all these cases. Exactly how many is unlikely we are ever gonna find out. No real murderer has been found. If you want the strange story there are two books in particular that are real good. Hannes Råstam: Thomas Quick - The Making of A Serial Killer and Dan Josefsson: The Strange Case of Thomas Quick. It is nothing to be proud but good to be aware of for Sweden. The only "fact" that ever connected Quick to the murders (he confessed to 39 and got convicted for 8) was what Quick said. He confessed before anyone had had time to suspect him. From all details he said about bodies and other things not a singly proof hinted that there were a grain of truth in what he said. But the police were under the influence of a psychologist that argued that the wrong it turned out the more right it must be. Since the defence was instructed, by Quick, to work for a lifesentence the defence and the prosecutor wanted the same thing. The only time the bodydogs found something in one of the places he said bodies were buried at it was a small bone. The papers were exstatic: Proof they screamed! The only problem was that the bone came from a squirrel. To think critical during this time was not appreciated. I never bought any of it at the time and the two books i mentioned looked closer at the case and slaughtered the murdertheory. In Sweden today perhaps only a few diehards believe Quick killed anyone. He is not a nice person, a convicted sexoffender and mentally disturbed but not a murderer.
Hope you start feeling better.
And I hate that you're embarking on the worst Odd book. 
've just finished my second read of Joyland. I have to say it really delivered a punch to my heart. So much more than the first time. I had forgotten whodunit, so when it was revealed I was both shocked and disappointed in the individual. READ IT AGAIN!
Thanks Kurben. I appreciate all this information.
Memoirs... is one of my favorite (and most emotional) books ever.
I absolutely love the narration. Enjoy!
And kingricefan I am sending good health vibes your way!!!
I have! Several times! Love it too!
Just finished Joe Hill's novella Snapshot 1988 and I loved it. I read that this story has already been scooped up by Universal for a movie. You can find the story in the latest Cemetery Dance magazine. I think it is also going to be included in Joe's novella collection due out next year (I think I heard that somewhere).
OH, flu medicine reared its ugly head on me with my previous post- I'm actually reading Saint Odd, which is the last Odd book.Hope you start feeling better.
And I hate that you're embarking on the worst Odd book.
A Thin Bright Line (Lucy Jane Bledsoe)--absolutely smashing writing from Bledsoe. No lie, there are shades of Harper Lee in this book. As a snapshot of what it was like to be a lesbian in 1950s/1960s America it just can't be beat, but that isn't it's only point of interest. Bledsoe is an incredibly strong and evocative writer--settings come alive in a McCullers sort of way, and the characters are beautifully drawn. It's a smart book, too, as the protagonist is a smart, educated, literary scientist. It's a damn shame that this book will likely be considered of limited interest because the main character isn't 'mainstream' enough, because it approaches topics like racial and gender politics, climate change, and the dividing line between private and public life in a manner that respects the times while fitting neatly into current international dialogue on these topics. And it's both funny and pathetic in the right measures! Can't say enough good about this book 
I read a book by him not long ago called Re-Birth. I liked it very much!
The Pastel City by M. John Harrison.
Isn't that always the way? Here you have all this time to read just laying in bed, but you just can't concentrate or get interested in it. It's always like that for me.
Get well soon kingricefan!
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