Heena’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2014)

Heena’s comments from the RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off) group.

Hi, Abhipsa.
Welcome to RMFAO :)

Dagny wrote: "I read The Shining years and years ago. There was one part which almost gave me nightmares - scary!"

Wow. What part was it? I watched the movie a while back and the twins and the butler scene really scared me...

Cheryl wrote: "Dagny is the queen of mysteries, that's for sure!"

Yep, she is! And she has a tremendous amount of knowledge when it comes to Classics too.
Here, at RMFAO, we call her Professor Dagny :)

@Cheryl - Haha... Yeah. No sleep this month for sure. I hope Netflix will have The Shining throughout October, I've watched it before, but it'll be fun to watch it right after reading the book!

And thanks for sharing the review of Carrie. :)

@Dagny You have a gift to be able to find mysteries in all genres... hehe... :D
Hope you'll enjoy these reads and that you'll find some horrors too :)

@Cheryl I'll be reading The Shining, Dr. Sleep, Needful Things and Gerald's Game (at least I'll try to read all of them.) Have you read all of these?
I haven't read Carrie yet, and I don't even have it. But do let me know how it was when you're done with it.

So good to see everyone liking the books they're reading!

I just created the October thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I wasn't able to participate this month, but I'm sure next month will be awesome as I got Stephen King's books early this year specially for October month's read. Can't wait!!!

Hi, Dagny and Cheryl. I'm glad we're doing this :)

I already have the book so I'll be happy to start whenever you guys have it. This book's been recommended to me so many times by so many people that I'm super eager to see how it'll be.

I'm so frigging excited for this month! I'm going to read Stephen King's books :D

Hey guys,

It's October, time for some creepy-a** spooky books!!! This month’s genres are Horror and Paranormal.
Both the genres are similar so this month's going to be one hell of a scary one. As always, there are absolutely no limits. Read what you want to in the broader sense of the genres.

Here are the definitions for each genre:

Horror: Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror". Horror fiction often overlaps science fiction or fantasy, all three of which categories are sometimes placed under the umbrella classification speculative fiction.

Paranormal: Paranormal books involve unusual experiences that lack a scientific explanation. Some popular subjects in paranormal books are supernatural creatures, ESP, clairvoyance, ghosts, UFOs, telepathy, and psychics.

Here's a quick summary of the levels:

Level 1: Casual Reader: 1 book (easy)
Level 2: Frequent Reader: 2 books (moderate)
Level 3: Bookworm: 3 books (mildly strenuous)
Level 4: Bibliophile: 4 books (strenuous)
Level 5: Bookiopath: 5 books or more (challenging)

Please feel free to announce your October to-read books along with the level you are targeting for.

All the very best and happy reading!

Dagny wrote: "Sounds like what happened to me, Heena. My last was a "mystery" - not a murder in sight and the only mystery was what happened to all the library books.."

Lol. Now that's one mystery. After reading a few serious books, especially last month's Historical Fiction books, it came as a pleasant surprise to me. Don't you think?
I love this sequence of genres!

Cheryl wrote: "Heena,
What is the name of the book? It sounds very unusual."

@Cheryl - Basically Frightened. It is one hell of a post-apocalyptic book. The main characters witty and intelligent observations are to die for. I LOVED this book! Worth every second.

Finally, I got a book that'll fit the bill for this month. Turns out the post-apocalyptic book I'm reading falls under humorous category. :)

Hope you all are having fun!

Yeah. It'll be really lengthy and on top of that I spent an entire day reading Before I Go to Sleep. Lol.
I guess I'm gonna stop right there and wait for the next possible opportunity to read the entire Clifton Chronicles.

Thanks for the list, Cheryl. It's really good to have one for ideas.

I'm not sure I'll be reading either of the two genres this month because I really need to read a few classics and thrillers fro my second book's research.
Though I hope you guys will have fun :)

And here's the thread for next month: September - Humour + Retellings: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hey guys,

I hope you had fun reading for August challenge. (I sure did!)
[If you're new, then please don't bother worrying about anything. You can join us for or from this month.] This month’s genres are Humour + Retellings (Mythological Fiction and Fairytales) - Any retellings will do (even classics.)
You can either do any one of these genres or both of them. It's entirely up to you. If a book comes under the sub-genre of these genres, however remotely, then it can be included as well.
So, basically, there are absolutely no limits. Read what you want to in the broader sense of the genres.

Here are the definitions for each genre:

Humour: A humour/comic novel is usually a work of fiction in which the writer seeks to amuse the reader, sometimes with subtlety and as part of a carefully woven narrative, sometimes above all other considerations. It could indeed be said that comedy fiction is literary work that aims primarily to provoke laughter, but this isn't always as obvious as it first may seem.

Retellings: A new version of an older story. Sometimes, a fairy tale or myth may be reimagined with a modernized setting or retold from a minor character's perspective.

Here's a quick summary of the levels:

Level 1: Casual Reader: 1 book (easy)
Level 2: Frequent Reader: 2 books (moderate)
Level 3: Bookworm: 3 books (mildly strenuous)
Level 4: Bibliophile: 4 books (strenuous)
Level 5: Bookiopath: 5 books or more (challenging)

Please feel free to announce your September to-read books along with the level you are targeting for.

All the very best and happy reading!

I just saw my shelf and realised that I have Mightier Than the Sword. Actually I love this series so much that every time I have to read the next part I begin from starting. Lol. I've done this so far, but I think this time I'll just read this one and then when I'll have to read the next one, I'll read all of them again.
So this will be my last book for this month :)

Done with my 4th for this month: Fangirl - 4/5. Loved it. Loved the characters and story and everything about the book, except for the fact that I'm not in the favor of Fanfiction.

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: "I read Fangirl last year, probably for the YA month. A lot of it brought back memories of my own college years."

Yeah, I remember. I wish I had this book then.
And I agree, it really does bring back memories (both bitter and sweet.) :)