The Book: The Running Man, by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
The Story: The year is 2025 and everything is kind of in shambles. Ben Richards’ young daughter has come down with the flu and because they can’t afford to take her to the doctor, it is just getting worse and worse. America is pretty much obsessed with [...]
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz
I have always been a little bit morbid. I know I’ve told you that before, but it just comes up so often. This week I was struggling between Summer of My German Soldier and Scary Stories. Huh? I guess even as a kid I was quite [...]
The Book: The Regulators, by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman
The Story: Hmmm. This one is a little bizarre. Not completely sure where to start.
It’s a normal day on a normal street in a normal town in Ohio. All of a sudden, a van pulls on to the street, rolls down the window and mows [...]
The Book: Skeletons at the Feast, by Chris Bohjalian
The Story: This is the book that I was talking about in my review of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, this is a WWII book written from the perspective of Germans. Pretty different from most novels out there that [...]
The Book: Columbine, by Dave Cullen
The Story: This is the true story of the attack on Columbine in 1999. I’m sure that everyone that was old enough to be in school remembers the day of the attack and the days following- all of these stories and rumors that surrounded the whole deal. This book’s main [...]
The Book: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph. D.
The Story: This is the diary of a young woman living in Seattle around the turn of the century. She is courted by and then marries a rich oil tycoon named John Rimbauer. He is in the process [...]
The Book: We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
The Story: In letter after letter to her estranged husband, Franklin, Eva recaps their life together from start to finish. In her first letter, Eva tells the reader how it is going to end: with their son, Kevin, taking part in a school shooting and [...]
The Book: Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
The Story: The title kind of says it all. The author went on this big journey to find out what happened to bodies that were donated to science. She had kind of figured (and I had to) that most of them ended up in [...]
The Book: In The Woods, by Tana French
The Story: Adam Ryan and two of his friends disappear into the woods in a small Ireland town about 20-something years ago. The two friends are never found. Adam is found, but with shoes full of blood and absolutely no memory of what happened.
Fast-forward 20ish years. Adam Ryan [...]
The Book: Lisey’s Story, by Stephen King
The Story: This is the story of the marriage of Scott Landon, a world famous author, and his wife of 25 years Lisey. When the story begins, Scott has been dead for two years and Lisey is just starting to clean out his study and get stuff in some [...]