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My #666 is 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill and I own it and have started it a couple of times and gotten pulled away by reading challenges, chores, etc. Should jump back in and knock it out this summer.
Maxine are we reading the 2nd book in the Necroscope series?
Roots of Evil- Sarah Rayne. Just recently 'discovered' her but I enjoy her books immensely. They hearken back to old style horror. So this probably won't stay on to-read for long.
Microcosmos by Llynn Margulis (a book about microbes, germs)
Wow, how weird, it's Foxe's Book of Martyrs
I don't have 666 but my 333 is The Pines by Robert Dunbar NOT Pines by Blake Crouch although I did enjoy that.
I had 777 in my read pile but then I read another one and ruined it.
While my TBR doesn't go that long, it seems that #666 is that book that has been haunting you forever; you like to think you'll read it, but probably never will, but you just can't admit it. For a long time it was Gone With The Wind, for me, then Wuthering Heights. But since 1985, that number had been occupied by War & Peace, but I finally got rid of that bugaboo in 2012.
But last year, I failed to get through Les Miserables, so that is my new #666.
Squire wrote: "While my TBR doesn't go that long, it seems that #666 is that book that has been haunting you forever; you like to think you'll read it, but probably never will, but you just can't admit it. For ..."
That makes sense. I had to read Les Mis in high school and I hated it. I even hate the memory of it.
Oops! Sorry for bringing up bad memories. But the funny thing is, I've always ended up enjoying the book once I actually finished it. I failed at LM because I simply got distracted by other things and left off after book 1; I was enjoying it.Maybe in a few more years...
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler.
I finished Chandlers The Big Sleep and Hammett's The Maltese Falcon about two years ago, and that novel is one of the leftovers from that era.
I finished Chandlers The Big Sleep and Hammett's The Maltese Falcon about two years ago, and that novel is one of the leftovers from that era.
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Rose's Story from Upstairs Downstairs.
That was kind of anticlimactic. If I organize the wrong way (not sure) it's clockwork man, which looks a lot better than Rose's Story.
I might never even read Rose's Story dammit!! I went through a phase of "Downton Abbey is awesome, upstairs downstairs must be awesome too!" But it's not the same. It's ok, but not great.