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[Sandra]

Quynh wrote: "Sandra, yes. Her Barefoot Bay is a great series. Great writing, characters, development, etc. I totally recommend it."

Good to know...I'll take a look. Thanks.

[Quynh]

Sandra - *Starshine* wrote: "Oh yes, definitely Nora. I'm looking forward to Shadowdance too, book 4 in Kristen Callihan's Darkest London series. I believe that one's in Dec."

I'll check this series out.

If you like Nora's Bride Quartet, you'd like Barefoot Bay as it also have the tight knit group of women/friends. She's doing a spin off series from Barefoot Bay as well, which involves wedding business lol.

[Susan]

New Lori Foster, Gena Showalter, Larissa Ione, Stephanie Tyler, Sylvia Day, JR Ward, and of course Maya Banks to end the year!!

[Sandra]

Definitely love the bride quartet by Nora so I'll check out Barefoot Bay.

What does Sylvia Day have coming out this year, Susan?

[Susan]

Afterburn in August and Aftershock in November.

[Quynh]

Sylvia Day reads are steamyyyyyy. I was going to read Entwined With You, then I learned there are 2 more books after it, so I'll wait till they're released to finish.

[Susan]

Better for your sanity to read them all at once.

[Quynh]

Exactly Susan! I don't like the tidbits that leave you hanging after each book. It's not really a cliffhanger but it's more frustrating than anything to wait.

[Susan]

Was I smart enough to do this? No.

[Quynh]

Haha! Maybe Afterburner and Aftershock will hold you over till the next one.

[Susan]

I hope so!

[Juhi]

i just finished Hotshot by julie garwood! it was good but not as much as her others :)

[Susan]

That's a disappointment. It is on my TBR.

[Juhi]

Susan wrote: "That's a disappointment. It is on my TBR."
its not that bad but i liked her others better! this one had less suspense and i felt that it moved too fast but still , i liked the characters and the plot :)

[Elizabeth]

I'm reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King and I'm getting the feeling that it's my going to be one of his "scary" books it's just going to be one of his "weird ish" books...has anyone read it? It was published 2006 I think. If so, what did you think?

[Sandra]

I haven't read it Elizabeth. I read some of King's work but not all of it. I read the book he wrote "On Writing" and loved it. He starts telling tidbits and snippets from his childhood and then you realize he is relaying events that led him to write certain books...like Carrie. It is so good. And then he gives his "wisdom" not advice & not how to on writing. It is so good. Of course, I am writing a book, so it was very special to me. But I think entertaining reading for anyone.

[Sandra]

Susan wrote: "Afterburn in August and Aftershock in November."

Gosh, how did I forget these?? I told you my list was swallowing me whole! I'm beginning to have nightmares about it. Love me some Sylvia Day..all of her work, not just Crossfire. Love Gideon.

[Mary]

Currently reading So Speaks the Heart .

[Temple]

Susan wrote: "That's a disappointment. It is on my TBR."

Me too. I have never read any of her work.

[Sandra]

Neither have I but I have friends who love her stuff. I guess everyone has an off book once in awhile.

Mary, tell us about So Speaks The Heart when you finish...

[Mary]

You got it Sandra! It will take me a while, though, cause I'm reading it in German(language practice - don't ask...)!!!

[Sandra]

Ok...???German? Sounds really interesting.

[Elizabeth]

Sandra - *Starshine* wrote: "I haven't read it Elizabeth. I read some of King's work but not all of it. I read the book he wrote "On Writing" and loved it. He starts telling tidbits and snippets from his childhood and then ..."

ok you just got my curiosity burning! What do you mean he relates events in his childhood that led him to write books, for example Carrie? Color me intrigued.

[Sandra]

Oh yes Elizabeth. King gives several instances in this book relating events from his early life to ideas for books later. The Carrie one: At one point, he worked summers doing janitorial work at a high school. Paired with another guy to clean the girl's shower room, here are his words:

One day he and I were supposed to scrub the rust stains off the walls in the girls' shower. I looked around the locker room with the interest of a muslim youth who for some reason finds himself deep within the women's quarters. It was the same as the boys' locker room, and yet completely different. There were no urinals, of course, and there were two extra metal boxes on the tile walls--unmarked, and the wrong size for paper towels. I asked what was in them. "Pussy-plugs," Harry said. "For them certain days of the month."
I also noticed that the showers, unlike those in the boys' locker room, had chrome U-rings with pink plastic curtains attached. You could actually shower in privacy. I mentioned this to Harry, and he shrugged. "I guess young girls are a bit more shy about being undressed."
This memory came back to me one day while I was working at the laundry, and I started seeing the opening scene of a story: girls showering in a locker room where there were no U-rings, pink plastic curtains, or privacy. And this one girl starts to have her period. Only she doesn't know what it is, and the other girls--grossed out, horrified, amused--start pelting her with sanitary napkins. Or with tampons, which Harry had called pussy-plugs. The girl begins to scream. All that blood! She thinks she's dying, that the other girls are making fun of her even while she's bleeding to death...she reacts...fights back...but how?
I'd read an article in LIFE magazine some years before, suggesting that at least some reported poltergeist activity might actually be telekinetic phenomena--telekinesis being the ability to move objects just by thinking about them. There was some evidence to suggest that young people might have such powers, the article said, especially girls in early adolescence, right around the time of their first---Pow! Two unrelated ideas, adolescent cruelty and telekinesis, came together and I had an idea.

From Stephen King's: On Writing..A Memoir of the Craft

This book is full of memories/ideas/etc. from where some of his ideas came from and how he put ideas together into a book. And then humorous bits on writing.

[Maggie]

Thanks Sandra, that's a great story :)

[Sandra]

His book is full of them...I laughed my way through most of it!

[Elizabeth]

Sandra - *Starshine* wrote: "Oh yes Elizabeth. King gives several instances in this book relating events from his early life to ideas for books later. The Carrie one: At one point, he worked summers doing janitorial work at..."

holy cow that is soooo cool! Thanks a lot for putting that on here :)

[Sandra]

You're welcome...you should read some of the ways & things that happened to give him idea's for some of his other books...it's awesome!

[Elizabeth]

Just by reading his books you can tell his mind is always going--and he must think in a really unique way. My sister can't stand the style of his writing but I love it! I love how he interrupts himself without even using dashes he just stops the sentence, ya know? Even though it's pretty exhausting but you know how Stephen King writes, he tells you the middle of something then the end and then like 20 pages later he'll explain the beginning then LATER he'll tell it all in order so you FUH-INALLY figure out what's going on.

[Sandra]

I know...his Book On Writing & Memoirs is really funny...he kind of tells some of his life story but in little snippets and he tells how it ties to books he later wrote. I'm not a huge Horror fan but I like some of his stuff.

[Sandra]

I know...his Book On Writing & Memoirs is really funny...he kind of tells some of his life story but in little snippets and he tells how it ties to books he later wrote. I'm not a huge Horror fan but I like some of his stuff.

[Maggie]

I'm not a huge horror fun either but I do love his books and Dean Koontz. I like their older books better then the new ones.

[Sandra]

Agreed, Maggie. He can scare me to death! lol

[Quynh]

I loved the older Dean Koontz books! I haven't read his work since 2009-2010. It lacks the same punch that his earlier works had.

I've never read a Stephen King book though, are they really scary? I don't like books that would give me nightmares.

[Maggie]

Salem's Lot scared the heck out of me, book and the original movie. Carrie and The Shining too. Scary stuff!!

[Elizabeth]

A lot of it is scary! But some, like Lisey's Story and Under the Dome are just sort of weird.

Christine however is THE SINGLE SCARIEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ EVER. I absolutely loved it. :D

[Elizabeth]

Maggie wrote: "Salem's Lot scared the heck out of me, book and the original movie. Carrie and The Shining too. Scary stuff!!"

Carrie and The Shining are both really good! But personally I liked The Shining better, Carrie wasn't quite as scary as I'd expected it to be. I might have hyped it up too high or something....

[Julia]

Maggie wrote: "Salem's Lot scared the heck out of me, book and the original movie. Carrie and The Shining too. Scary stuff!!"

'Salems Lot was the first King book I ever read. I think I was about 15 when I read it. . . . alone . . . . at night. I went to sleep w/ a baseball bat and every light in the house on.

[Quynh]

Oh my. I'm not sure I can delve into his books now lol. I live alone and don't want to sleep with all the lights on!

[Elizabeth]

JuliaC wrote: "Maggie wrote: "Salem's Lot scared the heck out of me, book and the original movie. Carrie and The Shining too. Scary stuff!!"

'Salems Lot was the first King book I ever read. I think I was about ..."

It was really that scary? YAY I might have to pick that one up soon :D

[Sandra]

King has some scary stuff..the kind that makes me afraid to turn off the lights. But I really found it interesting reading about where his ideas came from and it was usually normal everyday events.

[Elizabeth]

I especially Lisey's Story interesting because it's about an author's wife's life after the author has died (prematurely) and there's some hinting that the husband/writer might have been a little crazy, and he makes up his own words. This makes me wonder if King is describing a little of what is in his own mind, ya know? I think he must be. But...if he KNOWS then is it really craziness? Eh, I just don't know. And if it's not from personal experience he must have one craaaazy imagination. And even though everyone knows Kings imagination is basically unparalleled I think some of it is from his life.

[Sandra]

I know some of it's from his life from reading these tidbits of his Memoirs. Amazing!

[Sheri]

So I just started reading . I have been wanting to read this book for a while and hope it is as good as it sounds....Taking a short break on the in death but will get back to that as soon as I finish this book

[Sandra]

I loved it Sheri...I've read everything Sparks has written. The books are all set here in North Carolina where Sparks also lives. The only problem I have with his books are the bittersweet endings he often writes...I end so many of them in tears. They are good but just a downer when they don't have a typical HEA.

[Sheri]

I have read many of his books and love them...its kind of funny because this book is based in New Bern NC and I am moving to New Bern this week

[Amie]

I finished by Jami Alden, which I loved, I couldn't put it down. Now moving on to by J.R. Ward.

[Jonetta]

Amie wrote: "I finished by Jami Alden, which I loved, I couldn't put it down. Now moving on to by J.R. Ward."

I LOVE this trilogy by Alden! I still have the last book to read. You're going to be emotionally wrecked by Lover Awakened.

[Jonetta]

I'm reading Flirting with Disaster by Ruthie Knox.

[Sandra]

Sheri wrote: "I have read many of his books and love them...its kind of funny because this book is based in New Bern NC and I am moving to New Bern this week"

Oh wow, Sheri...New Bern is a beautiful area too. We pass through there once in a while. It's a couple of hours or so from me.