This is a great book to read in October.
Eight trick-or-treaters journey through space and time into the mysteries of Halloween, to save their friend Pip.
#HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew #BookRecommendation
Here's my October list for #BookSpin and #CastTheDie (the first 13 books). Since it's going to be a while before I can get shelves and unpack my books, they're all ebooks or audiobooks, with the exception of The Running Man. If that one's picked then I'll check it out from the library for #LosersClub
pickCollection of short stories shown by the title figure's tattoos. Since this framing narrative is only referred to in a prologue, epilogue and the end of the first story, it seemed a bit pointless to me. But the stories were enjoyable, if a bit dated in some respects, not just socially but also in the expected technology.
It was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
'You ever see Now, Voyager? 'Ten times,' I said.
"This is where Bette Davis and Paul Henried sat having a love lunch early in the film....
We were in San Diego by three and outside the bullring in Tijuana just at the hour of four. "Think you can stand this?" asked Constance. 'I can only try,' I said.
...we went north and drove out onto the island and sat in the sunset at the Coronado Hotel. We didn't say anything...
But it was not so much the presence of nine hundred or a thousand books, as it was their titles, their subjects, their incredible dark and doomed and awful names.
On the high, always midnight shelves stood Thomas Hardy in all his glooms next to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which leaned on dread Nietszche and hopeless Schopenhauer cheek by jowl with The Anatomy of Melancholy, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Freud....and on and on.
Every time anyone drops dead of a heart attack or trips over his shoelaces in Venice, there's someone there the next day to tell me sixteen to the dozen, how to solve the stopped heart or retie the shoelaces. You've got the heart attack shoelace look about you, and I didn't sleep last night.
