Your Book Activity 2025

[muggle not]

1 hour ago, Nataweeee said:

just started Spoiled Rotten by Natalie Tautou because for some reason i need to be reading three books at once lol. looks like its gonna be some nasty horror short stories.

Consider reading "IT" by Stephen King. You will never look at clowns again in the same way.

[Nataweeee]

34 minutes ago, muggle not said:

Consider reading "IT" by Stephen King. You will never look at clowns again in the same way.

i probably owe king a fair shake. i tried reading his stuff when i was a child and i've had a negative impression since lol.

[lunababymoonchild]

43 minutes ago, Nataweeee said:

i probably owe king a fair shake. i tried reading his stuff when i was a child and i've had a negative impression since lol.

Stephen King has some short stories and novellas if you don't want to commit to a long novel right away.

[France]

1 hour ago, muggle not said:

Consider reading "IT" by Stephen King. You will never look at clowns again in the same way.

Definitely not!  I've always loathed clowns and don't want even more reasons to!

[Nataweeee]

49 minutes ago, lunababymoonchild said:

Stephen King has some short stories and novellas if you don't want to commit to a long novel right away.

that's a good idea, if anyone has any recommendations i'll gladly take them ❤️

[lunababymoonchild]

6 minutes ago, Nataweeee said:

that's a good idea, if anyone has any recommendations i'll gladly take them ❤️

I’ve just finished reading The Monkey which is 50 pages (in my copy) from Skeleton Crew. 
 

Different Seasons contains four very good novellas including the now famous Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

[lunababymoonchild]

Daughter of the Otherworld, Shauna Lewis

[Nataweeee]

starting up We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson for an upcoming book club ❤️

[lunababymoonchild]

And then there were non, Agatha Christie. For a change of pace.

[itsmeagain]

Paul Theroux. Collected stories. He's a decent story writer; the highbrow angle shines through with him showing off his knowledge in sooo many ways , e.g. an author  in a story, verbose as he regales hangers on at 'dinner', is autobiographical Paul. 

But my is he well read. Pompous .

[poppy]

Another vintage mystery, Dancing With Death by Joan Coggin. Really enjoying this one, she writes very amusingly.

Also listening to Gone With the Wind on audiobook.

It's a long time since I've read this, and  I'm finding revisiting it interesting, especially getting the Confederate's side of the American Civil War. Although I completely support the end of slavery, the South certainly endured many hardships and losses due to the war. Nothing is ever cut and dried.

Edited October 20 by poppy

[lunababymoonchild]

I loved GWTW when I read it

[poppy]

2 hours ago, lunababymoonchild said:

I loved GWTW when I read it

 

So did I, Luna. I've read it at least twice and watched the movie several times too. Although you have to admire Scarlett for her indomitable spirit and determination, Melanie was always my favourite character.

[lunababymoonchild]

37 minutes ago, poppy said:

 

So did I, Luna. I've read it at least twice and watched the movie several times too. Although you have to admire Scarlett for her indomitable spirit and determination, Melanie was always my favourite character.

I’ve seen the film too many times to count. So much so that a friend bought me the DVD and told me it was my favourite film!
 

I always promise myself that I’m not going to cry and I always do.

 

I like Melanie well enough and I’m sure she doesn’t deserve the treatment that Scarlett hands out but I have to confess that Scarlett is my favourite character. 

[lunababymoonchild]

The Celibates Trilogy, Honoré de Balzac

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Now onto another by Joan Coggin, Who Killed the Curate?

[lunababymoonchild]

Decided not to read the other two thirds of The Celibates Trilogy just yet and gone for a comfort read : Ann Cleeves, Red Bones (Shetland 3)

[lunababymoonchild]

Currently reading Halloweird:Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain, edited by Johnny Mains. Only read the first poem and part of the second poem so far.

[lunababymoonchild]

Empire of the Vampire, Jay Kristoff.

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About to start Footsteps In the Dark by Georgette Heyer, a detective mystery. I thought she only wrote Regency romances ( I'm generally not a fan of outright romances) but apparently she penned 11 or 12 mysteries. 

[Nataweeee]

just started Eimear Mcbride's new book "The City Changes its Face" and gosh i just love the way she writes.