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Day 8 #36by36 #Readathon

I didn‘t have a lot of reading time this week so I didn‘t get to reach my thirty-six hour goal. Made it to almost nineteen hours.

I got a couple more hours of reading done last night to finish Odd Thomas.

Days 6 & 7 #36by36 #Readathon

Got a little over four hours of reading done over the past two days. Almost finished Odd Thomas.

Day 4 #36by36 #Readathon

Yesterday got kind of hectic. Was only able to read for about a half hour. Finished a chapter or two of Odd Thomas.

Attempting to start this book, but someone is trying to interfere with my plans. 🐈📚

#TwinPeaksReadingChallenge #TPRC
#MySpecialAgent: Recommended by someone special to you.

Supernatural meets mystery in this first book in the Odd Thomas series. A quirky, likable guy, Odd sees the dead. They don't speak, but they do communicate with him. It's this "gift" that allows him to track a murderer and attempt to foil his plans. Full of humor, love, and a little bit scary, this is a good read.

At the weekend + dashing off to visit my mum I grabbed this ex library bk off the shelf as a quick read and for #propernounintitle #booked2023
Overall a strange story abt a yng man who sees dead people + is pulled into a potential future terrible crime. Enjoyed it but not sure if I'll carry on with the series. Very Stephen King like. Another one taken off that looming pile in the spare bedroom.
@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae

Late again, but here's my #manicmonday #letter0 @CBee

📚 Odd Thomas
✍️ Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club books!)
📺 Out of Sight (George Clooney during his most Clooneist and JLo)
🎤 Oingo Boingo
🎶 One by U2

3✨ I‘m honestly not sure how much I was able to comprehend. However, Odd Thomas sees ghosts and works out two different situations here. One is a kidnapped girl, and the other is about “Fungus Man”. Through the course of his investigations with a police officer who knows about his gift he reveals really dark situations, shadowy creatures bent on misery, and a heartbreaking truth that causes him to isolate for a while. August #Doublebookspin

Sorry I‘ve been distant lately. Work has been good. Students so far are great! Doing some off-roading today on a structured road to celebrate that we made it through the summer without adding to our debt much as two teachers. Yay!

#falltreasures @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Day 30: October tbr
Odd Thomas! By Dean Koontz
I know its the movie poster by I absolutely adored Antosha Yelchin! 🖤😢

A young man nicknamed Odd Thomas is a fry cook who can see dead people and bodachs, shadowy figures that signify the approach of death. When a new person moves to town he quickly notices that more bodachs are lingering than before. Odd Thomas finds himself in the position to save hundreds of lives in just a few days.
If you like books with mystery, suspense, and big plot twists, you‘ll like this one.

#LittensDressedInBlood Today's prompt is Walking With a Ghost, so of course I thought of Odd Thomas, one of my favorite books, and the silent ghosts that haunt is daily life and walk side by side with him.

#LitsySummerCamp @ImperfectCJ

No doubt Odd Thomas would be rescuing campers at Camp Bitches Be Readin' from a psychopathic ex-counselor bent on murder and destruction. Odd would uncover an even bigger plot to turn the camp into Camp Bloodshed, thus triggering the end of the world, and he'd use the ghosts of dead campers to help him take down the Big Bad.

I have a bit of a soft spot for mid-00s urban fantasy and this was a nostalgic read. It was a little slow in places (and very wordy) but Odd is a likeable hero that I rooted for throughout and I‘ll admit the ending brought a little tear to my eye 😢 #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

#TBRPile 📚 “My name is Odd Thomas, though in this age when fame is the altar at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I exist.”

I don't know if my tastes have changed so much over the years or if it was the world's most boring narrator but this reread was just....awful!

This was always one of my favourites but now Odd is irritating, Stormy is annoying and every part of the plot is ridiculous. Has Koontz always been so needlessly wordy too? Like worse than King wordy? Ugh....

11hrs #LittenListen
#bookspinbingo #JoysofJune
@aperfectmjk @TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65

5 stars all the way! This was a great read! I love Dean Koontz. I have more books to this series. Recommend. If you have not read him, give him a try.

#bookrecommendations

On my #bookquilt because Odd is my favorite literary character. And while I've always been a fan of audiobooks, this is really the audiobook that started my obsession.

Finished all these books for #readyourwayreadathon and total hours 33:30!
Thank you @TheSpineView for hosting this readathon! #scarathlon #TeamHarkness #screamathon @StayCurious

#septembersenses Authors like Koontz , Carroll, and Tolkien, that create unique characters & entire worlds are by definition, filled with the power of #imagination

Finished these two books. I‘m on number three. Love Odd Thomas! 💙❤️📚

I may not have finished the series yet (this will be the theme for most of this list 😑) but I will forever love Odd

#20Series20Days #Top20Series @Andrew65

Did not think I would like any Koontz book but surprise. The Odd Thomas series proved me wrong.

Really enjoying this one. Koontz adds so much detail I feel like I am being read to with no one else around.

Finally starting Odd Thomas today 😄

#bookworm #deankoontz #oddthomas

March TBR 📚

#bookworm #bookstack #deankoontz #oddthomas #aliberg #michellekalus #whileyouwerereading #aliceoseman #heartstopper #heartstoppervolumethree

A very intriguing read.

Horror Fiction

Started in: October 16, 2019

Completed at: November 1, 2019

How did you choose this book? Recommended by my cousin.

Brief Summary: This is a story about a 21-year-old ghost-whisperer who can see dead people and shadow-like forms he calls bodachs. He is a young man who is in a position to save hundred of lives . Odd is a man who puts danger to himself to stop tragic events to save the lives of innocent people.

(Pages 201-446)

Horror Fiction

Started in: September 25, 2019

Completed at: October 16th, 2019

How did you choose this book? Recommended by my cousin

Brief Summary: This is a story about a 21-year-old ghost-whisperer who can see dead people and shadow-like forms he calls bodachs. He is a young man who is in a position to save hundred of lives . Odd is a man who puts danger to himself to stop tragic events to save the lives of innocent people.

(Pages 1 - 200)

I‘m not sure how, after 30 years of avid reading, I was today years old before I read a Koontz novel, but here we are.

This is a fun, fast-paced paranormal mystery/thriller, with good writing, a supporting cast of colorful characters, and a really great main character: Odd Thomas is wonderful and I‘m going to read more of this series.

This was my #BookGiftedToYou for #Booked2019. My friend @ItsAngel gave it to me a year ago.😳😂

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

1. _If_ I know the other person's taste and style, I LOVE recommending Dean Koontz for so many reasons that it'll have to be another post.
2. SpiderMan: Far From Home - cute, funny, good summer flick
3. Sweet corn! I'm so sad the rain made spring planting so bad in the Midwest.
4. Um...ten. I think.
5. Welcoming @Monstershaped from #habitica!

Good, but I enjoyed the movie more, I think. I'll try the next despite the lack of any possible sequel to watch with Chekov (RIP).

I didn't make any workout and reading goals, but I did finish this one on a nice long walk.

#litsywalkers #audiowalking #hufflepup

Reading my very first Dean Koontz novel!!!

Here we go again, old friend.

My seventh or eighth time reading this, and I'm still in love with Odd.

#OddThomas #literaryloves #supernatural #DeanKoontz

I know this is one of his more popular/ famous books, but I really just couldn‘t get into it. I thought it was slow and I got bored so many times. I also feel like the storyline in general is just done so often that it maybe just wasn‘t great for me because I didn‘t find anything super original in it.

4/5 ☆☆☆☆

Buddy read with Jao Lancaster

Read date Feb 21

Copy epub

Reading challenge 10/50

📖ｏ🖤

Suspenseful, Amusing and Interesting read

“Fate isn‘t one straight road... There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

― Odd Thomas

Full review :

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2723870628

🍁 HIGHY RECOMMENDED!

Page count : 446

Published on : August 29, 2006

"Perseverance is impossible if we don‘t permit ourselves to hope."

-Odd Thomas ?

This book is so good. Read this. Don‘t watch the movie first (like always with movies based on books). I laughed. I cried. I can‘t wait to read the rest of the series. Dean Koontz is definitely one of my favorite authors. He seems to never disappoint.

Odd Thomas (one of my all time favorites and one of Koontz's best. I cried)
George Orwell
Ocean's 8
Orange is the New Black
Oreos (especially chocolate covered ones)
@JoScho. #manicmonday #lettero

Day off today. Getting my read on.

We are destined to be together forever. We have a card that says so. We have matching birthmarks.

We are not strangers to ourselves; we only try to be.

Set firmly in paranormal mystery, the perspective of the character--a reluctant but kindhearted medium whose life is driven by fate--is incredibly unique and the plot does throw you a bit of a twist. The author's strange way of describing the world will draw you in and even make you laugh. There is already foreshadowing of incredible character depth. If this is a series, and I believe it is, I will be reading the rest of them.

It's #FriYayIntro time! @jesshowbooks

1. Odd Thomas, he's one of my favorite literary characters.
2. Wow, this is harder than I thought it'd be. Probably Grey's Anatomy.
3. I watch the World Cup (⚽️>⚾️) 😉
4. I'm back on the carb free wagon, so maybe some jalepeno peppers with cheese and bacon.
5. My father was a chain reader, he was never without a book. He died July 4th, 2000, but I know he'd love that I work in a bookstore now.❤📚❤

New books today!

Two from @ItsAngel because she‘s awesome, and two from the Dollar Tree because they were only $1 and apparently that makes them exempt from the book buying ban. 😬

One of my favourites that my bear 🐻 (fiance) picked by himself for me. Love it and am slowly working through the series. Truly fascinating, moving and compelling. Definitely read this!

I‘m not a big suspense reader but here are a few of my favorites 😬

#SuspensefulSunday #ReadingResolutions 📖💐

#BookNerd 📚💙

Book no. 6 for #freakyfriday is done - I mostly listened to the audio, but was so close to finishing tonight, I pulled out the print copy I'd gotten from the library.

This is an inventive and creepy story about a fascinating person. I really liked Odd, and I can imagine his gift is hard to live with sometimes. Needing to help restless spirits, and also dealing with the guilt of not being able to save everyone, that would be overwhelming.

I've never read any Dean Koontz before. I did see the movie adaptation of this before I read the book, though. Maybe one of the best page to screen adaptations ever.

The book is great. Koontz keeps the tension tight as hell all the way through, creates memorable characters you care about, and just generally weaves a good yarn. This first book is excellent.