Cannonball Read 18

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This was perfectly fine and I did not like it at all.

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

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I actually think what’s going on here is that I really do not like most possession/exorcism stories. Despite loving the friendship aspects of My Best Friend’s Exorcism*, I had a hard time getting through that book and I like it the least of all Grady Hendrix’s stuff, and now I think I know why. The possession story arc mimics dysfunction, and the breakdown of familial relationships (often) or friendships is highly unpleasant to me. I also don’t get anything out of it. Starting about thirty […]

“This must be so difficult for you, Meredith.”

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

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I read the first chapter of this book when it first came out, and I think probably because of the Stephen King quote at the beginning “It scared the hell out of me” or something like that. I didn’t find it to be all that scary, but I do think the last 25-30 pages are incredibly tense and shocking, so I found that incredibly effective. But for most of the rest of the book, I enjoyed it and found it inventive, but not expressly scary. […]

The Hot Mess We All Want to See

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“How can ghosts be in your head?” my four-year-old asked me one day. I had been talking to my husband about this book, and my son overheard me. “Uhhh…” I began. How do you explain something like that to a kid? I tried my best with a preschool explanation of this book’s title, all the while realizing that for many people, the topics in this book are not abstract at all, but disturbingly real. While not a ghost story, this book is frightening. Told from […]



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