Firestarter by Stephen King
Clearly, 2019 has been my year of reading Jane Austen reboots and Stephen King. I’m not complaining. For some reason, I just needed some cozy reading this year, and I didn’t stray too far from my comfort zone. I first read Firestarter so long ago that I can’t even remember reading it.*** I know I did, because I’ve always been a completist like that, but I just don’t remember. I assume I was in 8th or 9th grade, which was NOT recently, so I was […]
Gerald's Game by Stephen King
Stephen King radical feminist??!! No, but he mostly tried. Stephen King credits his wife Tabitha for a lot of the ways he’s thought about women characters he’s created, and I think the start of the 90s more or less begins his sober phase in his career, being an alcoholic and drug addict, and working under various levels of intoxication in the 1970s, but especially the 1980s. And then in the 90s, he also wrote several novels that at least in their log line and elevator […]
The Institute by Stephen King
Historically, King is at his best building stories with complex worlds, high stakes, many moving parts, and a cast of characters. In many cases, his tales are told through the eyes of a child. The Dark Tower, IT, and The Body are all a testament to King’s uncanny ability to get into the mind of a child and face overwhelming challenges from a tweenager perspective. But, in recent years, I’ve felt that King’s ability to connect with the younger generation is slipping. For a 72 […]
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
This is the second and a half time I’ve read this one. I tried to read it once as a kid, and it’s a little too much for me to work out what’s going on here, because you have to allow yourself to fall into mystery and the some of the basic quest tropes early on. The first time I read it in full was about 10 years ago, when I was more equipped. This relisten brings to mind a handful of new observations. This […]
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
One of the few remaining Stephen King novels I’d not yet read, and honestly one of the ones I barely had any consciousness of whatsoever. The cover and the description make it sound way way way different than the actual novel is. This is not noir or anything close to it. It all takes place in a newspaper work room as two old timer newspaper men in a small town tell a story of a body found on the beach some 25 years earlier to […]
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
The Institute by Stephen King
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
Woo hoo! I hit 208 books this weekend. Here are the last 4 books I read, a nice mix of my favorite things: Becky Chambers, Stephen King, Christina Lauren, and a book about linguistics! (5stars) To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers I really love Becky Chambers’s writing — the subject matter (space!) is so fresh and interesting, but the characters at the center are so realistic and well-written (even when they’re not human). I was thrilled to discover that Chambers released a novella […]
