I can’t remember the last time I read a book by Stephen King. I was a huge fan in my teens and 20s, but it’s probably been at least 20 years since I picked up one of his books. Recently, my daughter has started reading King, so when Joyland showed up in our shared digital library suggestions, I though, “Sure, why not.” I wasn’t disappointed, which was a great relief to me. Joyland isn’t a horror story per se, and is really more of a ghost story than anything […]
I’m a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read
On Writing – 3/5 Stars I am late to the game on this one. I picked it up looking for some potential sections to share with my Dual Enrollment English 12 classes this fall and we begin the school year, and while I think there’s plenty of good material in here for that, the language alone (the casual sexism to boot) makes it tough. But for me the biggest issue with sharing this book with my students is that I just don’t think it would […]
My favorite Stephen King so far!
I’ve found many readers can be put into two categories: those who love Stephen King, and those who don’t, but are afraid to admit it. Okay, maybe I’m projecting. But the internet LOOOOOVES Stephen King. At least the circles in which I find myself. So much so that I know there’s something wrong with me for not loving his books. It’s been my dirty little literary secret. I started with IT. I remember bits and pieces of the miniseries that aired in 1990. Did I […]
When Uncle Stevie tells us that a book is scary, we should most definitely listen. #CBR10Bingo
I’ve been away on vacation (or a series of vacations) for a little over a month, and have a large stack of books to review. But this one had to be first. The quiet horror of it will last with me for a long time. I first heard about The Hunger from Stephen King, who tweeted about it in March: THE HUNGER, by Alma Katsu: Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark. Of course, that shot it up to the […]
And So it Begins #CBRBingo
July is incredibly tough month for me at work, in a good way, so I haven’t been reading as much as I do the rest of the year. Most of my reading the last three weeks has been audiobooks on my commute and when I had a few moments to unwind at home I chose television over writing reviews. When I saw the first post about Cannonball Bingo I got excited because now it looks like I saved my backlog of reviews for the contest […]
A Simple and Concise Exploration of Writing and the Man Behind the Words
I have read most of what Stephen King has written. I think there was probably a point in time where I could have said I had read all of his novels (short stories are a whole different ball game), but the man is prolific and I haven’t necessarily made a huge effort to always keep up with what he is doing. Sometimes he explores topics I am not as interested in. For example, I held off on reading the follow up Bill Hodges books after […]
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