Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear.”

Night Shift by Stephen King

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Took me long enough to get through this one. But my brain was not in a great place when I started, and I had to wait to read a bunch of freaky-deaky stories until my brain felt better. Which it did over the weekend, and I zoomed through this. Stephen King’s imagination is a wild place, especially Stephen King of fifty years ago (some of these stories were published in the 60’s, even though the book was published in 1978). Some of the stories didn’t […]

The spill spilled, spilling red…

Night Shift by Stephen King

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OK never mind, here’s one more review for the year. This is a collection of early Stephen King, and it’s his second collection. It’s also the collection that a) scared living hell out of me as a kid — maybe entirely from that creepy original mass market cover I put in this post, and b) was trawled for any imaginable movie they could make from it. While Skeleton Crew came out first, this is the one that has many many bad movies as a result. So, […]

Episode 1-17: See You At The Crossroads, Bone Bone Bone

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/04/30/episode-1-17-see-you-at-the-crossroads-bone-bone-bone/ Wherein I review: 59. Day Shift (Midnight, Texas #2) by Charlaine Harris 60. The Cutting Edge (Lincoln Rhyme #14) by Jeffery Deaver 61. No Time Like The Past (St. Mary’s Chronicles #5) by Jodi Taylor 62. Night Shift (Midnight, Texas #3) by Charlaine Harris 63. Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson A residual Sookie Stackhouse trilogy comes to a real f–ker of an end: great characters, AWFUL names. Deaver goes a little off the rails in the latest Lincoln Rhyme mystery.  I keep chugging through […]

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

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I think it would be fair to say that Uncle Stevie and I have an understanding. He writes, I’m a constant reader, and that’s that. And I’ve been known to reread some of the things that he’s written many times. Even when the stories are upsetting or dark or scary, there’s something comforting about them for me. Maybe because I started reading them at a really early age (seriously, way too early….what exactly was going on in the 1980s?), his writing is sort of a […]



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