g With only a few audio book hours left in my Spotify account for the month, I decided to cross this brief novella off my list. Stephen King, the king of premises, has come up with another intriguing idea. His main character, Scott, is a generic good guy Mainer who abruptly realizes that despite looking just the same as he always has, he is steadily losing weight. Ever more curiously, he weighs the same clothing or unclothed. He even weighs the same when he’s holding […]

It’s a long, long way from Melbourne to Honolulu, and I spent a large part of it with Stephen King’s Holly Gibney (funnily enough, I read Needful Things on my first trip to US – SK is apparently my go-to companion for the long haul flights).  Regular King readers will recognise her as a recurring character, but Holly can be read as a standalone. Holly is a creepy, creepy old novel, a lot like The Outsider’s early sections in vibe, actually.  A taut crime/horror/suspense novel, […]