I wasn’t planning on reading Mr. Mercedes this year. It just sort of happened. And by “it just sort of happened,” I mean that I was looking for audiobooks to feed my audiobook addiction, and saw this was available and then clicked “download,” even though I knew it wasn’t on my list and I would be using it as one of my twenty-five freebies, because I just can’t resist free candy, dammit. I can’t really say I regretted it, though. The universe seems to have […]
Mr Mercedes
Well I have 8 pending book reviews to write so I figured today would be a good time to get started. I will keep this short and sweet to get some of my pending list completed. I read this book when I was on Vacation in Jamaica back in June and honestly don’t recall too much about it. I always enjoy Stephen King books, but this one was really more of junk food, I ate it up quickly and forgot about it just as quickly. […]
Stephen King: The Final Cut.
Since I foresee this running long, I’ll kick things off with a more up-front assessment before I let myself succumb fully to the urge to blather on with only a vague aim in mind. After giving the matter a great deal of thought, Stephen King is now no longer a member of my personal Mount Rushmore. Soon after expanding my so-named Holy Trinity (King, Adams, Vonnegut) to a Holy Quadrinity with the inclusion of Rainbow Rowell, it’s been knocked back down to a Holy Trinity, […]
I admit, I’m a slave to Stephen King.
I’ve been a Stephen King girl ever since summer camp in Jr. High, when someone handed me their copy of The Shining. Later that summer I read The Stand and ‘Salems Lot and every other worn paperback I could get my hands on before camp was over. I was hooked. I’ve read pretty much everything the man has written over the years (not every non-fiction piece, and a few short stories printed in obscure journals have eluded me). Some of his books are among my […]