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November 1, 2015
Snow Like Ashes Characters As the Cinnamon Roll Meme
Mather: looks like he could kill you, is...
"Horrible things have happened to us, are still happening to us, will happen every day for the rest..."
tea-time-readers:
I just finished Ice Like Fire and my life doesn’t makes sense anymore.
I just finished Ice Like Fire and my life doesn’t makes sense anymore.
October 31, 2015
hccfrenzy:
Happy Halloween! In honour of our favourite holiday...
Happy Halloween! In honour of our favourite holiday (any day where we get free candy is going to be our favourite), we asked eight YA authors about the scariest books they’ve ever read:
Mindy McGinnis, author of A Madness So Discreet, Not a Drop to Drink, and In a Handful of Dust: The scariest book I have ever read is The Stand by Stephen King because it’s a highly plausible scenario for the end of the world.
Sara Raasch, author of Snow Like Ashes and Ice Like Fire: I don’t read many scary books, as I was thoroughly scarred as a child by RL Stine’s series. The one that still sticks with me is the ventriloquist doll book—my mom actually has one of those dolls, and DEAR GOD. I couldn’t (still can’t) open the closet where it was stored. I live eight hours away from that doll now and I’m still not sure that’s far enough.
Patrick Ness, author of The Rest of Us Just Live Here: The scariest scene in a book I’ve ever read was in The Talisman by Peter Straub and Stephen King. It’s a scene in a diner where the hero has stopped to be hidden and earn a little money. Something horrible cuts its way through another dimension and stands between him and the exit. Scared the absolute crap out of me. Other than that, David Mitchell’s first novel Ghostwritten. I really didn’t need a plausible scenario for the end of the world.
Jason Chabot, author of The Broken Sky Chronicles: I have a weak heart when it comes to anything from the horror genre, but for an exciting Halloween fright, the book that stands out for making my skin crawl actually relates to an entirely different holiday. Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, has the best ghostly encounters I’ve ever read. Reading the book for the first time as a preteen, I was spooked when Marley’s Ghost first appears, dragging his chains through Scrooge’s home. Yet it was the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come that gave me the greatest creepy thrill. Shrouded in black, faceless, never uttering a word, always pointing with its scrawny finger of death, the phantom couldn’t be more terrifying, especially when it ends up in a cemetery where the desperate Scrooge sees his own gravestone and bleak future. Yikes! I’m shivering right now to imagine it all again.
Amy Ewing, author of The Jewel and The White Rose: For someone who is a self-proclaimed scaredy cat, I read a lot of horror growing up. I thought answering this question—what’s the scariest book I’ve ever read—would be easy until I realized I read a ton of scary books. When I was in middle school and high school, I was obsessed with Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine. Books like Remember Me, The Immortal, and The New Girl kept me up late at night, turning the pages, and then terrified to fall asleep after. And even before that, my first reading love was Roald Dahl and looking back, his books are pretty twisted. So clearly I was always drawn to the darkness.
But hands down the scariest book I’ve ever read was Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, by Alvin Schwartz. Just Google the cover and it tells you pretty much everything you need to know. I think the cover alone gave me nightmares, actually. It’s a collection of urban legends and folklore, stories with charming titles like The Ghost with the Bloody Fingers and The Dead Man’s Brains. I was about ten or twelve when I read it, and I’m fairly certain I did not sleep for a week. The stories are short and chilling and the illustrations are equally as terrifying. What is it that draws us to frighten ourselves, to expose some deep seeded fear through reading? I don’t read much horror now, but I think if I were to read this book again, I’d still be lying awake at night in my apartment, waiting to hear a doorknob turn or a footstep down the hall.
Mikaela Everett, author of The Unquiet: I love White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, which is so well-written and so very creepy! The first sentence reads: Miranda Silver is in Dover, in the ground beneath her mother’s house.” And it really only goes downhill from there!
Cammie McGovern, author of Say What You Will and A Step Toward Falling: No book will ever be more terrifying to a naïve thirteen-year-old than Go Ask Alice. Someone slips a drug into her Coke at a party and the next thing you know, she’s an addict living on the street. I’ll tell you this: I may have had some Diet Cokes at parties over the years, but never a Coke-Coke. Never. I know what can happen now. I’ve read the book.
Rae Carson, author of Walk on Earth a Stranger and the Girl of Fire and Thorns series: The scariest book I ever read was Stephen King’s The Shining. At twelve years old, I read it under the covers with a flashlight. I had nightmares for weeks about being chased by topiary plants and dead women in bathtubs.
What’s the scariest book you’ve ever read?
Ice like fire
I will be honest..I never really read the acknowledgment parts of a book, but for the...
October 30, 2015
Finished Ice Like Fire...
@sararaasch what have you done?!
You used an ATLA gif.I like you.
