Here‘s your picks @CSeydel - happy reading 🎃
1. Needful Things (one of my faves!)
2. The Turn of the Screw
3. Reaper Man
4. In Cold Blood
5. The Trees
So hard to pick only 5!
#trappedinaspookyhouse
bailedI made it through 320 pages of being bored and depressed and I‘m giving up. Maybe an 800 pager wasn‘t my best first go for Stephen King, but I‘m not sure I enjoy his weird need to sexualize things. Also, I wasn‘t scared a single time…just depressed. He killed off an abused woman‘s dog. Hadn‘t she been through enough already? I certainly didn‘t need to read about the puppy being killed…
A rainy night means a cozy cabin evening of reading.
so-soAs a riff on the famous Matheson short story, THE BOX, this is ok. It is very short and can be read in one sitting. Don‘t know why it took two authors to write this (co-written by Richard Chizmar), it‘s like something King could have spit out in his sleep. Decent, but not essential.
so-soI had a decent time with this book, but I'm finding it impossible to categorize for the sake of recommending it to the right audience.
A bunch of cozy moments, even set around Christmas/New Years holidays, but also worrying about political situations, social issues, parent's health, husband's well-being, the doom that the button box might unleash, and missing girls. 1/?
Who knows what the tone the second book in a series written by only one of the original co-authors, prefaced by a first book I might term horror-fantasy, might be, but what I do know is this is a very cute owl. ☺️
Vibrant colourway vibe from TBR pile. High contrast makes sense for what I'm willing to bet are intense narratives! 💛💙
pickBit of a Faustian deal, bit Lord of the Rings (my precious), the idea of gaining power/rewards but at a cost, the idea of an item prized but also a burden that could cause evil. And a handy stand in for concerns about weapons of mass destruction/powerful nations' decision to war. I appreciate the novella treatment, it didn't feel too repetitive in teaching the protagonist and the reader what the box could offer, versus the threat it represents.1/
