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Burn, baby, burn.

Firestarter by Stephen King

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Clearly, 2019 has been my year of reading Jane Austen reboots and Stephen King. I’m not complaining. For some reason, I just needed some cozy reading this year, and I didn’t stray too far from my comfort zone. I first read Firestarter so long ago that I can’t even remember reading it.*** I know I did, because I’ve always been a completist like that, but I just don’t remember. I assume I was in 8th or 9th grade, which was NOT recently, so I was happy to revisit it. ***I do remember one detail from my original reading. I remember […]

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12/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

But none of it had affected her hearing in the slightest.

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

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Stephen King radical feminist??!! No, but he mostly tried. Stephen King credits his wife Tabitha for a lot of the ways he’s thought about women characters he’s created, and I think the start of the 90s more or less begins his sober phase in his career, being an alcoholic and drug addict, and working under various levels of intoxication in the 1970s, but especially the 1980s. And then in the 90s, he also wrote several novels that at least in their log line and elevator pitch sound like he’s taking on various “women’s issue” du jour — domestic violence in Rose […]

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11/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:648 |

King is once more Hip to the Jive

The Institute by Stephen King

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Historically, King is at his best building stories with complex worlds, high stakes, many moving parts, and a cast of characters. In many cases, his tales are told through the eyes of a child. The Dark Tower, IT, and The Body are all a testament to King’s uncanny ability to get into the mind of a child and face overwhelming challenges from a tweenager perspective. But, in recent years, I’ve felt that King’s ability to connect with the younger generation is slipping. For a 72 year old, that is hardly surprising. The world is transforming, technology is constantly evolving, politics […]

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11/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

What exactly are you planning to do with that knife, young man?

The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

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This is the second and a half time I’ve read this one. I tried to read it once as a kid, and it’s a little too much for me to work out what’s going on here, because you have to allow yourself to fall into mystery and the some of the basic quest tropes early on. The first time I read it in full was about 10 years ago, when I was more equipped. This relisten brings to mind a handful of new observations. This is King at his best, and worst, in a few distinct ways. I find the […]

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10/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:597 |

Amused at his sudden detour into delicacy on her account…

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

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One of the few remaining Stephen King novels I’d not yet read, and honestly one of the ones I barely had any consciousness of whatsoever. The cover and the description make it sound way way way different than the actual novel is. This is not noir or anything close to it. It all takes place in a newspaper work room as two old timer newspaper men in a small town tell a story of a body found on the beach some 25 years earlier to an intern. The body likely met an untimely and possibly violent end, but this book […]

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10/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:581 |

Quadruple Cannonball!

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

The Institute by Stephen King

My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

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Woo hoo! I hit 208 books this weekend. Here are the last 4 books I read, a nice mix of my favorite things: Becky Chambers, Stephen King, Christina Lauren, and a book about linguistics! (5stars) To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers I really love Becky Chambers’s writing — the subject matter (space!) is so fresh and interesting, but the characters at the center are so realistic and well-written (even when they’re not human). I was thrilled to discover that Chambers released a novella this year AND a third novel in her Wayfarers series (thanks CBR!). I immediately picked […]

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10/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:208 |

He supposed he was.

Blaze by Stephen King

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This is a rather weak Stephen King novel. We are told in the opening introduction that this is a “trunk novel”, as in one the writer wrote, and then stored away for years, and dusted off later. Stephen King then talks about the ways in which this novel cam back to life, long after the death and retirement of Richard Bachman, when it was found in a box in an archives donated to a university. It was revised and published. It’s a noir lite version of Of Mice and Men, if George is a kind of ego-voice from beyond the grave […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:571 |

Graveyard Surf

Night Shift by Stephen King

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CBR11Bingo: The Collection The stories in Night Shift, Stephen King’s first collection of short stories, read for the most part like spec scripts for The Twilight Zone. They’re high-concept stories with dynamite premises and most of them have that signature Twilight Zone ironic ending or twist. King is great at establishing a world filled with realistic characters even as the plots themselves are bizarre and occasionally ridiculous. The collection kicks off with “Jerusalem’s Lot”, set in the vampire-infested town of King’s Salem’s Lot more than a century prior to the novel. It’s epistolary format helps establish an eerie mood as […]

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10/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |


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