pickWhat a great story! Second Steven King book I‘ve read and now I‘m a total fan. Billy is a paid for hire, excellent bit man who learned his skills while serving in Iraq. I was fascinated by his step by step details about planning and executing the attack. Billy‘s secret is that he plays “dumber” than he is and he‘s secretly writing a book about his life. Great characters and plot twists
#bookhaul for Christmas - many thanks to my husband for all the goodies and my MIL for The Midnight Library
#WinterGames2021 #TeamGameSleighers points total 681. @StayCurious pic are some of my favorite things on Christmas day.
Sloths & Stephen King....they go together, right!? My two favorite things. My best friend really hit it out of the park with my Christmas gifts this year. 😍🎅🎁
pickThis gave me serious Dexter vibes! You know, when you‘re rooting for the good guy who is also a killer but it‘s ok because he only kills bad guys. Seriously though, this is a great book, I loved Billy Summers, an ex-marine sharp shooter with a past. He‘s hired to do a last hit job before “retiring” when things go astray. Fast paced, page turning, high adventure and identity changes! This one will keep you up late at night.
A quiet Friday night. Just me, the pup and Billy Summers. I‘m really enjoying this book!
#thoughtfulthursday
🍂 Being with my family had me smiling this week. Nothing major just having them around.
🍁I don‘t enjoy reading a book with ripped pages or folded corners.
@BarkingMadRun Thank you so very much for this in English! I truly appreciate it. And if you want the Polish one back, just let me know and I can send back to you. Not a problem.
#BWS #BasicWitchSwap
@sprainedbrain @mklong
Darn you #BookOutlet !!! You always lure me in with that one book I‘ve been thinking about buying & then … how can I stop at just one!! How am I going to quit this habit with you constantly tempting me!?! 😩 Sigh. I love books. 🖤 😁
Finished The Institute and moved on to this one. About a 110 pages in and enjoying it so far! I have a tendency to read a lot of an author once I like and start reading them and King is no exception.
pickHonestly if I did not know the author before reading this book, I never would have guessed Stephen King!
Former marine sniper, Billy Summers is a hit man who “kills bad men.” He finally decides to take on his so-called last hit.
But of course things do not go as planned.
I appreciated reading some King that was out of the horror genre and more suspense, and I was able to finish most of it in just one night because I needed to know the ending!
pickI finally got to open my #bws package 😍😍😍😍 I am OVERWHELMED. THIS PACKAGE WAS INSANE! Made mine look dinky in comparison. Literally cried. Thank you so much @moonprismpower. It is all stunning. I love it all so much.
I stayed up way too late last night just to finish this. I couldn‘t stop reading. #Scarathlon #TeamHendrix #ReadWithUs #Screamathon #SpookOWeen #20in4 #Wickedathon #BookSpinBingo
Started this one on audio while running errands with my hubby
And so it begins. 😳
Today-a reading day with my buddy, Stephen King. The tagged book is so good.
pickA bit of knitting while finishing up this audiobook. Stephen King straight up took a hatchet to all my feels and left them a bloody tattered mess with this one. You‘ve completely wrecked all my emotions, Uncle Stevie. Thank you. 🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓
pickAnother good read from the master of scary reads. Billy Summers is the Dexter of snipers. A great main character involved in killing the bad people out there. With a military background, Billy protects himself until he rescues Alice. Beware of the real scary happenings of women in this book. Billy is fighting to get the bad men. Real world scary is always scarier than killer clowns.😳
1. Audio - Tagged book
Physical book - Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
Kindle - The Ghost Fields- Ellie Griffiths
2. Tagged - Nearing the end and SK is hitting me in all the feels. Very, very good.
Physical - Greatly enjoying the gothic feel.
Kindle- Reading a Ruth Galloway mystery feels like going home and enjoying a visit with an old friend.
@TheSpineView
#Two4Tuesday
10-4-21: My 97th finished book of 2021! Billy Summers is an Iraq war vet who has become an assassin for hire. We meet Billy when he has taken on his final hit. During the time he is gearing up for the kill he starts to write a book about his life. The story goes back and forth in time to his childhood and time in the war and to his preparation for his last job. There is much involved in not getting caught which leads him to finding Alice.
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Billy Summers is an Iraq war veteran and a killer for hire who sets out to avenge the crimes of an evil man. He decides to write his life story in a book. He is in a relationship with Alice Maxwell and they are going to avenge the rape that Alice endured. I liked how Billy helps Alice by using the the song The Teddy Bear Picnic.
pickThe latest from Stephen King is another pick from me. Billy Summers is not a horror novel but it didn‘t need to be. Real life monsters are much more disturbing. This was hard to put down and only lagged for a bit in the very middle, before Alice came along. The end is bittersweet and imo well-done, since SK is not always the best at writing endings. 5⭐️ Highly recommended!
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#thriller
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
💡 Vacation! Had the week after Labor Day off 🌞
📚 Tagged
🎭 Scarlett O'Hara
❤ A productive visit with a lawyer today, something that I'd procrastinated on that turned out well
#newin #currentlyreading
Surprisingly, the library had a copy. I picked it up on a whim. Prob won't make much of a dent before it's due back but it's worth a shot. Good so far. Who else is reading this one? Thoughts?
pickI see this book getting mixed reviews and I think I understand why. This is not your mother‘s Stephen King. Horror novels are apparently too easy for Mr King now, but his writing is so strong that he doesn‘t need horror anymore to build amazing characters. If you are looking for Cujo, read his old canon. If you are looking for an author who has grown past all that, and you enjoyed 11/22/63, this is one amazing and heartbreaking ride.
pick"Do we ever tell ourselves all of it?"
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pickWhen I finished this book all I could do was pause for a minute and think about what I had just read. This book was one of the best I‘ve read all year. I‘ve only read one other book by Stephen King but from what I have seen this one was different than his others. This one is more of an action novel with an ending that ripped my heart out. Definite 5🌟!
pickNot Kings best book, not his worst. It's a good read, easy as always, even though targeting difficult topics. King is the King of Characters, and once again he does a good job with portraying his characters. But I still missed some depth in this one. But I loved how he builds up the relationship between Billy and Alice. They both show that the worst times can bring up the best in us.
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#Anywayyoureadathon @kimmypete1 @Eggbeater @MidnightBookGirl #Superseptember @EadieB @Andrew65 #readathons
Here's the plan: Read the tagged book by 9/12. Finish When Breath Becomes Air, and read one book TBD by 9/19. I have to go back to work after a vacation this week; not expecting a lot of reading time next week, but hoping for the best!
Ha! New Jersey. I used to live there. The library was across from Paramus High!
pickStephan King made me cry. Not in a scary way, in a broken heart kinda way. And I loved it.
Thank you for tagging me @WJCintron ❤
1. I was finally able to see a very good friend of mine again. Due to Covid we haven't seen each other for a very long time. We spent a great day together 😊
2. Do you know that moment when the afternoon light turns golden? That's when autumn starts for me. It's all about the light.
3. It's a King! What a surprise 😁
I tag whoever wants to play!
#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94
1. I get to go to the dentist for a cleaning every 4 months instead of 3.
2. Day after Labor day
3. Billy Summers - Stephen King
#thoughtfulthursdsy @MoonWitch94
#currentlyreading but thinking about our trip to Lake Tahoe. South Lake Tahoe is currently under evacuation orders from the Caldor Fire. Keeping the residents and firefighters in our prayers.
I started Stephen King‘s Billy Summers yesterday and loving it already.
Bought this one yesterday, after a hell of a work week. I did my nails, the first time with the at home nails. They are a bit long but I like them.
pick🎧 I‘m still thinking about this book days after I finished it.
It‘s not horror but it does revolve around date rape, mob-like activity, assassination & vengeance. It‘s a crime novel.
This book is everything The Plot wasn‘t. An unfair comparison but I‘m writing the reviews back-do-back.
I love the vengeance aspect! The bad guys get what‘s coming to them. YES!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️9/10 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I love a King Easter Egg and I just got one referencing a certain haunted hotel. The audiobook is excellent, the narrator Paul Sparks, who was weird AF in HBO‘s Boardwalk Empire, is fantastic with characters and cadence.
The gift I got my sister for taking care of our dog Kiki while we were away. She's always been a massive SK fan and collects all his books. She rarely buys them new though, so I knew she wouldn't have this already. I'll give it to her later today.
panThis just is not a good book. The first half is good but the second half went downhill so fast I got dizzy. The female protagonist is so poorly written and cliche as to be unbearably sexist. Moving from virgin victim to virtuous whore as the narrative requires, she has literally no character arch of her own and is infantalized to the point of creepiness. Thumbs down on this novel, full of cliche characters and plot.
Billy Summers | 
so-so
