I enjoyed it for the most part, but I will admit to reading it pretty fast and almost certainly didnt respect Bradbury's prose as much as I should have. This was due to King Sorrow arriving when I was about 1/3rd of the way through, so I was eagerly trying to finish in order to start King Sorrow, rather than taking my time and appreciating it to its fullest.

Just finished: Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King



So this book is literally a 400 page monologue by one single character. No chapters, no other characters speaking, just Dolores talking. Literally the entire book! That in and of itself is a pretty wild accomplishment. The story is just ok, nothing too exciting. Still enjoyable though.

While I'm between huge novels, I grabbed a book I've had collecting dust from a college course I took remotely while stationed in Alaska in 1978. It's "9 Short Novels", of which I recall reading Metamorphosis by Kafka. Not remembering anything about it other than Gregor turning into a cockroach, I reread it. Maybe I'm missing something, but it really didn't impress me as anything great. Kinda stilted writing, and the story seemed to meander until the ending, which I thought was really disrespectful to Gregor. Well, my curiosity is satisfied.

The next story in the book was The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. Didn't realize that was there, and since I've had a recent curiosity about Twain (have the new biography in my to-read pile) I dove into that. Very interesting story, and very well written. Twain's disdain of civilization is on full display here with a character I'd almost compare to Star Trek's Q hanging out with a bunch of young men. The ending (I won't spoil it) had me wondering how people at the time of its release would deal with it. Reminded me of the current "we're living in a simulation" theory (oops, did I just spoil it??).

A couple finished in October:

The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman. My least favorite of Buehlman's books, but I appreciate he did something different here (as he does in most of his books). This time it's an urban fantasy very much in the vein of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. And like those books, the snarky lead (who always manages to come out on top) grated on me. It did have a great action set piece at the finale.


Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. I liked the format being entirely from the point of view of a little girl (though she's a little girl who an unusually large number of adults talk to as if she was an adult). At first it seemed like something difficult to read, but it was quite easy. Aside from the POV, it seemed a pretty standard possession story with an underwhelming ending (highlighted by some astonishingly bad decision making by the adults).

Finished

Just finished one of the Star Wars Acolyte prequels…



… it wasn’t that bad. I liked how it focused on Jecki and Yord (with a splash of Master Sol).

There were a few Easter Eggs harkening back the High Republic.

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Not a ton of new stories that I hadnt heard/read in various other places over the years, but this was a fun read.

Finished


Thuis was really good. If you like folk horror, this should be on your to read list

Is this focused on his time with BTTF only, or is it more encompassing of his life?

Entire book is about his year filming BTTF and Family Ties at the same time and how he juggled both

Huh, okay. Thanks

Relic - by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It's a horror novel about some kind of mythical monster living in the bowels of the Museum of Natural History in New York. I saw the movie "The Relic" way back when (almost 30 years ago!), with Penelope Ann Miller in the lead role and Tom Sizemore as a police detective. I remember the movie not being very good. But my sister has read some of the Preston/Child novels and loaned me her copy of Relic to read. I'm about a hundred pages in and I like it so far. Interestingly, the movie omitted a central character--an FBI agent named Pendergast, who apparently later became the main character in a whole series of books from Preston and Child. My first impression of Pendergast is that in speech and mannerism he seems very similar to the "Benoit Blanc" southern detective character played by Daniel Craig in the Rian Johnson "Knives Out" movies.

Trying to finish this before a book club tomorrow. Enjoying it so far, but only a few chapters in.

Finished