Ronda's comments (member since Mar 20, 2009)

Ronda's comments from the Roane State Community College Libraries group.

I have to agree with Stephanie--whatever I'm currently reading is generally what I find relaxing--just b/c I love to read. That said, my tendency in reading is toward the "light and fluffy", so that may have some bearing on this. If a book is a struggle for me to read on an emotional level? It probably won't stay on my reading list--or else will wait until I'm "up" for whatever it is.

Scary is a bit relative for me. If I'm talking creepy scary, as in leave-the-lights-on-hide-under-the-covers scary, I'd have to say It by Stephen King. There were scenes in that book where it felt as though King reached into my head and pulled out some of my very own fears.

If I'm talking scary as in worried-about-the-fate-of-the-world-or-what-this-world-is-coming-to? The scariest thing I've read is Feed by M.T. Andersen. This YA book is one of those dystopian glimpses into a future that seems entirely too plausible, and with having just recently ventured into the world of social networking, the story has become even more frightening to me.

So, a little off-topic here. . . Whenever I think of books that scare me, I get a flash of a scene from Friends, where Joey is keeping a book in the freezer b/c that's where he puts them when they get too scary. (It was a Stephen King book I think.) Rachel finds the book there and there's this whole sequence about what he's reading and she gets him to read Little Women. She comes in to find him upset and wanting to know if the little sister actually dies or not and she ends up putting THAT book in the freezer for him. Classic.