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just after sunset

I read this one pretty quickly–just finished it last night. I thought it was pretty good. The plus side was that it was a collection of short stories, so if you didn’t like a story, it didn’t slow the whole book down. Stephen King wrote it, in case you didn’t …

the burden of proof

Whew! This was a long one. I’ve been reading it for almost 2 months now (though I did lose it for a week around Halloween when Jake put it in our pumpkin basket). Despite the slow reading, I did enjoy the book. It’s just not what I’d call a “page …

20th century ghosts

This was a collection of short stories from Joe Hill. I did not enjoy it as much as his novel, but it was not a bad read, either. There were some pretty weird stories in this book. Very different. Not everything was horror, either. I’m still anxiously awaiting his next …

ghosts

Another book from Ed McBain. This was a pretty good story. It was also short and to the point, clocking in at 185 pages. Even so, it took me a month to read it. I actually read half of it last month when Brian and I went to Berkeley Springs. …

we’re all in this together

This was a collection of stories from Stephen King’s other son, Owen. Unlike Joe Hill’s book, I did not enjoy this one. The summaries of the stories sounded promising enough, but in reality they seemed more like a college exercise (or maybe something you’d be forced to read in college). …