Summer of Night | 
pickThis was a big boy! Took a while to get through (also March madness takes a lot of my time), but I loved it. It‘s often compared to It, and I can see that. Epic tale of kids battling evil—great. It‘s genuinely spooky and I enjoyed all the ghosts and creatures and the backstory of the evil.
Few events in a human being‘s life – at least a male human being‘s life – are as free, as exuberant, as infinitely expansive and filled with potential as the first day of summer when one is an eleven-year-old boy. The summer lies ahead like a great banquet and the days are filled with rich slow time in which to enjoy each course. #dansimmons #summerofnight #horrorfiction
pickIf you're a fan of Stephen King's IT, STRANGER THINGS and childhood nostalgia...then this is the book for you. It is a very male-centric book where all of the kids that are central to the story (except for 1 girl who appears sporadically) are boys.
That aside, it's 600 pages of scary fun.
pick“Stranger Things” is one of my favorite series and this read is the closest I‘ve found to it... maybe even served as an inspiration?
Any other ST fans that could recommend similar books?
My July stack for #bookspin 👍🏻 Adding five more titles randomly from my Nook app for #bookspinbingo as I finally have this stack down to a manageable level... for now 😊
Day 18 - #SummerNight #JamminJune
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Read and enjoyed this in 2016.
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Great vintage style horror about a group of 6 boys who spend their summer trying to discover what keeps happening to their friends. Yes, this book does have a similar feel to It or Boy's Life, and although personally I didn't feel it was as good as either one of those books, it is still a great, spooky read.
pickTook me a while to read, but I finished it last night. The crawling dread of this is just on point and the fact that a group of 10-yr-olds have to deal with it makes it so much worse 😩 also, just their normal daily life was so nostalgic. Kids just can't have summers like that anymore. I mean, before the monster.
3pts. 2 for the monster, 1 for this post.
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It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate vanishes. Soon, the group discovers stories of other children who once disappeared from Elm Haven. And there are other strange things happening in town.
#summernights #songsosummer
Today‘s #songsofsummer challenge is The Boys of Summer which made me think of the friends in this book.
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pickThis book is one of my favorite books. I usually read Stephen King's books and wanted to try another author. Summer of Night kept me wanting more and kept me awake during some nights lol. If you're looking for a good horror book then Summer of Night is for you. #dansimmons #stephenking #horror #genre #summerofnight
These are some of my favorite books I read in 2018! I was able to get through 108 books, which is the most I‘ve ever read in a year.
I‘m setting my 2019 goal at 60 so I can try to knock out some of my chunky books (500+ pages).
I also want to reduce my physical TBR. I have 3 tall bookcases full of unread books and I‘d like to clear off at least 1. I‘m planning to buy less and DNF more freely this year. Happy New Year everyone! 🎉🎉
pickNot at all bad, but I couldn‘t stop thinking about IT while listening to this book (a bunch of kids battling evil during their summer holiday), and it didn‘t quite grab me the same way The Terror did. I also found it difficult to keep all the boys apart.
pickReally good. If you're a Stephen King fan you will enjoy Dan Simmons. Great #spookyreads for October.
pickCreepy horror story, reminiscent of King's IT and McCammon's Boy's Life, with its pre-teen heroes battling an unspeakable horror. The kids are all well-drawn and believable and the portrait of small-town America in the long-vanished 1960 is wonderfully rendered.
Less organized than I would like, but this is the downside of having TOO many books
pickI really liked this book. Simmons writes lengthy books, but every word is necessary. This is a book about a group of young boys who discover evil in their small rural town and set out to defeat it. Reminiscent of Stephen King, the horrors multiply until the face to face battle at the end. All the characters are well written and sympathetic. If you like horror, you will enjoy this book.
#TBRtemptation post 1! This is the first installment in the Seasons of Horror series. Summer 1960, Elm Haven, Illinois. 5 12-year-old boys form a tight friendship. On the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Then they discover that other kids have vanished over time. Then, there's other strange happenings: holes appearing in the ground, a stranger dressed as a WWI soldier, a trick following them. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
So last night I got to the part in this book where my favorite character died. 😫 I knew in my heart it was going to happen. I saw the foreshadowing - but it was still devastating. It was such a terrifying, lonely death too. Definitely a punch to the gut.
I‘m looking forward to the remaining friends destroying the creatures responsible for this character‘s death (at least I hope that‘s how this book ends). 🙂
pickA solid story about kids discovering something evil lurking in their town. I might have enjoyed it more if I hadn't read King's It yet.
#audiobook
Finished these books today. I highly recommend both of them! I listened to Summer of Night, narrated by Dan John Miller- excellent 🙌 Dan Simmons is an amazing writer. This is the fourth book I've read by him, and they were all ⭐⭐⭐⭐
pickWhy is it that when presented with a story about 10- and 11-year old kids battling the forces of evil in the shape of horrific monsters, I am totally on board, but when reading a book about teenagers saving the world, my reaction is skepticism? I think it‘s because the first incorporates the magic of childhood. The adults, blind to magic, are unaware that a battle is raging. This book reminds you of It, but only in the bare bones. Loved it!
bailedI'm just having a hard time with this one. I think I need to pick it up again later when I'm more in the mood for it.
pickI really debated between "So-So" and "Pick" on this one. It took me a long time to finish, and I would put it down for periods of time when it got slow. But every time I picked up I wondered why I put it down, and I loved spending the summer with these well defined characters. It's worth a read, especially if you miss Stephen King's characters from 'the Body' and 'It'. These characters are very much their own, but you can't help the comparison.
This one is moving pretty slow for me, but I'm really enjoying it. I like the slow build of tension it's giving off. Also, kitties! #catsoflitsy
Finally found a Barb Funko and this shirt too. The checkout person asked if I was excited about the new season of Stranger Things 🤓
In the reading world, I'm craving some good coming of age horror to tide me over til October. Rereading IT is at the top of my list. Maybe BOY'S LIFE as well. If anyone can think of any others, let me know! (SUMMER OF NIGHT is excellent btw, if anyone is craving the same!)
I am reading Summer of night by Dan Simmons. I had it in my shelf for years, but now when there is a grimdragon readalong I finally will read it together with others. Looking forward to it. The beginning is promising 😊
I've posted about these before but it was too good to pass up for #summerreads and #winterreads The first is very IT-ish, with a group of friends riding bikes and battling a horrifying evil in their idyllic town.
The sequel has one of the kids grown up and returning to town as a successful novelist, encountering a totally different kind of supernatural presence.
I read both of these in their appropriate seasons! #junebookbugs
I don't read much horror, but I immediately thought of this duology by Dan Simmons for #aseasoninthetitle
Summer of Night is very IT-ish with a group of kids in an idyllic town facing truly horrifying supernatural evil.
A Winter Haunting has one of those kids, now an aging novelist, returning to the town. It's more introspective and creepy as opposed to terrifying, and makes you reevaluate what exactly happened in the first book.
pickI adored this book. Nostalgic but terrifying at the same time. I've already bought the sequel (although it's never as good lol). I loved these characters so much that I just have to know what happens to them. Now I think I'm going to check out other Dan Simmons books 😊😱
Just started this and am literally still on the author's intro which is pretty interesting in itself. I get an "IT" by Stephen King vibe and I'm good with that. I've always loved a group of kids facing adversity together story ❤️
pickThis was a rough start for me. The first chapter just talks about the school and there is a reason for it. Once I got through that it slowly picked up. I was given time to meet each boy. 6 boys in 1960 in a small Illinois town. the atmosphere was great and the regular things these boys would be going through plus something evil has woken up in town. creepy value was there and there are some gruesome scenes.
when a cold has me in its clutches, the best thing I can do is read. Getting my spooky on! #spookyoctober #allhallowsread
Getting ready to start this beast of book! Stephen King blurb on the front, hopefully this will give me the spooks :) #spooktober #allhallowsread
so-soThe book starts out with a group of sixth graders in 1960 on their last day of school before the summer holidays.
A boy goes missing, and first thoughts are that Van Syke has something to do with it.
The book takes at least half way through to really get any momentum going. Once it did though it was an interesting read. Although not as scary as I would have liked.
Filled with nostaligia for the 1960s. Supposed to be a horror but I'm not feeling it. Still enjoyable enough read to want to see it to the end though.
#summer #nostalgia #1960 #thriller
pickLoving the atmosphere of this book so far. It has a wonderful Stand by Me quality mixed with unmistakeable Midwestern power to ignore all social problems and just whisper about your neighbors under your breath.
I have just started this and it is amazing and beautiful and I can't believe I haven't read it. Perfect summer vacation book.
