The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

Here's another good book that will get you ready for Halloween! This a collection of short stories written during the 1920s. Each story combines the supernatural with science fiction. While it could be hard to follow at times, most of the stories were interesting and very entertaining.

IT

Hey everyone! As promised here's your book for this week.
  IT is about seven childhood friends living in the town of Derry, New Hampshire. After not seeing each other for 26 years they must reunite to battle a monster that terrorized them and their town. This story is filled with suspense and will give you a chill with every chapter.

Halloween theme

Hey again! Been a little busy with midterms coming up but I'll keep posting as often as I can. Since Halloween is coming up I thought it would be a good idea to share a few creepy/scary stories to get everyone in the Halloween spirit. Starting Monday I'll have a new story posted for all of you. Stay tuned!

I'm back!

Hello again everyone!
       For the past week I got caught up in a book called The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud. The story follows three friends; Julius Clarke a gay half Vietnamese man, Danielle Minkoff a struggling TV producer , and Marina Thwaite the daughter of a notorious journalist. All three met at Brown University and moved to New York with hopes of doing something important. The three friends are now 30 and have accomplished very little. Danielle is the only one with a well paying job as a documentary producer, however she writes stories about liposuction. Marina struggles to finish a book she started years ago and Julius is a freelance critic who hasn't gone very far with his line of work.
      During the spring of 2001 two men enter the lives of Marina and Danielle, one is an Australian magazine editor who is raging with ambition and a deep resentment of journalists. He becomes very close with Marina in hopes of destroying her father's reputation. The other man to enter the group is Marina's cousin, Frederick "Bootie" Tubb. Bootie is a college dropout who believes he doesn't school to learn. He move in with Marina's family with hopes of following in her father's footsteps. Both men threaten to turn Marina's and Danielle's lives upside down.
       Obviously I'm not a 30 something year old struggling to get by, but I still sympathize with all three of them. Probably because I'm almost done with school myself and feel a bit uncertain about my future. There's also the fact that they all aspired to do something big and wound up being disappointed in the end. I think that happens to a lot of people. Overall, it was an entertaining story and I would definitely recommend it.

Hello,
      Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I'm currently reading another book that I will post about when I finish it. Stay tuned.

The Shining

Last year I decided to give Stephen King's novels a try. I read a handful of them and decided to try The Shining.  It's about an aspiring writer named Jack Torrance who has recently been fired from his job as a teacher for assaulting a student. He lands a job as a caretaker for the Overlook Hotel located in the Colorado Rockies. Jack moves into the isolated hotel with his wife, Wendy, and telepathic son, Danny.  Not long after moving into the hotel Danny begins to see terrifying images and ghosts that have to do with the hotel's violent past.
 The novel  wasn't as creepy as I thought it would be. It was actually very entertaining. I especially liked how King went into detail about the hotel's history. I love or hate any of the characters. Although I did have a soft spot for Danny. This was an excellent read and if you're thinking about getting into Stephen King this is the book to start with.

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Set during the Great Depression, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is about Cassie Logan and her family and how they try to survive not only the Depression, but the constant abuse from white people.
 I really liked Cassie due to the fact that even though she is only nine and an African American, she still doesn't allow the older white people in her town to  boss her around. Despite her rough and tough attitude, you can tell that she is still an innocent child.
The story, although dark at times, has plenty of funny and heartwarming moments too. Overall, reading this book was a great decision and I can't wait to read the sequel Let the Circle Be Unbroken