Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Every year, in the thick of August, I stumble on a beautiful book that completely matches my mood. It happened again with Conversations with Friends, a perfect book that…
Posts tagged Stephen King
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep is the sequel I never thought I wanted. I was a teenager, somewhere around fourteen, when I read The Shining. I was on a Dean Koontz teen horror kick and I figured I…
Just Save Kennedy Already
Stephen King’s 11/22/63 probably could have been a cute, if cliched, little time travel romance novel if it’d clocked in at about 400 pages. Sadly, it comes in at over 800 pages turning it into…
Under the Dome
You may have seen commercials for “Under the Dome,” a miniseries starting in June based upon Stephen King’s novel of the same name. The premise got my attention right away: a dome suddenly, and without…
American Vampire Volume 2
I should’ve paid attention that Stephen King was only involved in the first volume of American Vampire, because Volume 2 is nowhere near as good and I can only think it’s because we get no…
American Vampire Volume 1
I feel like I need to put Stephen King on the same pedestal where I have Neil Gaiman because I had as much fun reading American Vampire Volume 1 as I did reading Sandman. American…
Truly terrifying? Truly not. Yet …
What does a player have to do to find a leg-numbing, breathing impaired, can-only-read-in-daylight-hours novel? It’s my second-favorite holiday season in the world-wide calendar, and I want this October to come with some g’damn goosebumps….
Kelly’s Top 10 Books of 2009
1. Bag of Bones by Stephen King: It's not a new read, but it's definitely my favorite King book (and it gets better every time I read it). It doesn't improve with age in the…
A King-sized void
There is a place in my brain that had seized up and was unable recognize writers who produce book after book after book. It was nothing I ever thought about, just on some subconscious level…
When Stephen King makes you cry
There is only one thing to do while your boyfriend is part of a world-wide online project devoted to reading the book Infinite Jest over the course of three months: Pick up your own big…
The Shining
I grew up believing that Stanley Kubrick's movie “The Shining” was the epitome of horror. Jack Nicholson? I mean, come on! And Jack Nicholson with a big ax screaming “Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!” after smashing through a…