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Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
-- spoilers below for all stories (kind of; I got lazy with this one) --
the mist (skipped)
here there be tygers - 4/5
just a good little story!! what if there was a tiger, huh? what then?
the monkey - 3.5/5
speaks to my own childhood anxiety about everything being my fault… this works really well for me
cain rose up - 5/5
yeah actually i REALLY liked this. really potent dread rather than a shock.
mrs. todd’s shortcut - 4/5
very a wrinkle in time kind of deal, and i love a bit of good yearning
the jaunt - 5/5
soooo bradbury-coded!! fucking hell man
the wedding gig - 3.5/5
i did like this; it was surprisingly straightforward for what i’ve read in the rest of the book so far!! feel that guilt, man. you can always do more. i don’t know why people are surprised stephen king is a progressive when you have endings like this.
paranoid: a chant - 5/5
a poem???? this shit rules!!
the raft - 5/5
the frozen girlies are gonna love this one
word processor of the gods - 3/5
my bitch of a wife and cringefail son? DELETE.
the man who would not shake hands - 5/5
british sensibilities in this one, oddly enough, despite the new york setting. i liked the added mystery of stevens and the packet at the beginning!
beachworld - 5/5
gunslingers and archaic dialects and deserts that aren’t deserts at all
the reaper’s image - 5/5
i love a super little haunted mirror story
nona - 5/5
catch me naming my child nona at this point
for owen - 5/5
omg okay 😭
survivor type - 5/5
lady fingers
uncle otto’s truck - 3.5/5
ummm……. sure
morning deliveries (milkman #1) - 5/5
HOT DAMN!!!!
big wheels: a tale of the laundry game (milkman #2) - 3/5
UHHH OKAY????
gramma - 4/5
very severely good and i am so satisfied with this ending
the ballad of the flexible bullet - 5/5
yeah, fucking excellent
the reach - 4.5/5
and now i’m crying, cool
Spy x Family, Vol. 10 by Tatsuya Endo
emotional
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
jesus christ man
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
such a shockingly solid prequel for me... like yes i love all things hannibal lecter BUT this was genuinely good!! avoids all the pitfalls of other prequels that feel like a wink-wink to readers expecting references to specific tropes, events, etc., and becomes just a really fascinating character study.
Later by Stephen King
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
took a sharp turn for the better once the deadlights showed up
Spy x Family, Vol. 9 by Tatsuya Endo
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
goddamn it i love this series so much
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
seriously cannot believe it took me this long, as a lover of graphic novels, to read this book. just massively important in every way. deeply, deeply uncomfortable with the fact that v's revolution seems to rest on the torture of a young girl.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
okay i'm gonna watch the show before i give this another stab
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
dark
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
absolutely loved this by the end. a quick read, but one that's going to stay with me for a long time.
Misery by Stephen King
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this book fucking rules all others. meditations on addiction, on gratitude, on what it means to create art, on creativity, on writing (of course), on not writing, on perseverance, on being indebted to your own imagination. on number-one fans.
Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? by Chris Oliveros
informative
medium-paced
4.0
a really incredibly interesting way to get a glancing look at a formative canadian event that we really get very little to no education about (at least in my experience on the west coast).