Here is a post that is short and sweet. I hope. Lists of books intrigue me. I became a voracious reader in second grade, circa 1972, in the Granville Elementary School system, scolded more than once to put down the book I was reading during math lessons. This led to me being a library kid.…
First off: Doctor Sleep is not scary. It’s pure horror story though, reaching for a dreadful atmosphere that builds with intensity as the characters stumble and try not to fall. Very few horror novels are actually scary so I don’t judge them on this basis alone. Is the writing at a high level? Yes. In…
I always try to pick books for the upcoming summer season, captivating books that will introduce me to characters I would never meet in real life, for good or bad, and allow me to visit places I probably will never have a chance to travel to—here at A Writer’s Life Blog and at the eMagazine In…
So, as most people in the known literary and popular culture universe know, Stephen King published an original eStory, Mile 81, today. Even though there are no deer in the story, I imagined the monster driving by these two ghostly Bambinos and licking its chops (so the photo fits the eerie feeling and atmosphere…