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[Kellie]

I started Bad Moonlight . I like it so far.

[Latasha]

Hi Kellie. Glad your liking it so far.

[Kellie]

Latasha wrote: "Hi Kellie. Glad your liking it so far."

Thanks Latasha!

[Kellie]

I finished Bad Moonlight I really enjoyed it. It kept my interest and I didn’t want to put it down. I’ll definitely read more by him.

[Latasha]

Glad you liked it Kelli.

[Kellie]

Thanks Latasha! I really did. What book are you all reading next? Is there a schedule?

[Alice]

Kellie wrote: "Thanks Latasha! I really did. What book are you all reading next? Is there a schedule?"

Feb's book is
The New Boy

The list of books is in the very first post. We have a book picked for every month of 2019, so far. We usually talk close to the end of the previous month about when to start the next book. So we will probably start The New Boy within the first week of Feb, depending on what everyone else is finishing reading...etc. There is no rule that we have to read it at the exact same time, but it is nice when we are all discussing it as we go (with spoiler tags, of course.)

[Latasha]

Thanks Leigha!

[Alice]

Latasha wrote: "Thanks Leigha!"

No problem! Hope I'm not stepping on any mod toes by answering questions. :)

[Latasha]

Oh lord no!

[Kellie]

Leigha wrote: "Kellie wrote: "Thanks Latasha! I really did. What book are you all reading next? Is there a schedule?"

Feb's book is
The New Boy

The list of books is in the very first post. We hav..."

Thanks Leigha!

[Latasha]

February is looking kinda busy so I’ll just go along with whatever y’all pick for the start date.

[Ashley]

I'm good for whenever.

[Alice]

I'm not in a huge reading mood, so I've got no other reading going on right now. Kingdom Hearts 3 came out and I'm busy with that! lol It is a long time coming. I was 17 for the first game and now I'm 34. I have stuff on the weekend and a doctors thing on the 4th, so I'm looking at the 5th onward for me.

[Melanie]

I can't get hold of this one and my Feb reading quota's pretty full so I'll wait for March.

[Tyler]

I'm good for whenever

[Latasha]

how about the 8th? if i can start these on a friday, i can usually finish them by monday.

[Tyler]

Sounds good to me. My birthday is actually the 10th, that Sunday. (I don't do anything for my birthday though sometimes my mom or grandma might come visit me. I'll be 30)

[Latasha]

Aww! Happy early birthday!

[Tyler]

Latasha wrote: "Aww! Happy early birthday!"

Thank you :) My plans are just saying goodbye to my 20s lol

[Latasha]

Lol. I cried when I turned 30

[Tyler]

Latasha wrote: "Lol. I cried when I turned 30"

I'm crying (and screaming) inside. I'm currently in a state of denial, which I probably will be until 9:49pm on the 10th. The minute I was born lol. I'll be saying "I am not 30 until 9:49 pm!) but then that will come and i'll probably cry for real lol

[Latasha]

It won’t be so bad, I promise.

[Tyler]

Latasha wrote: "It won’t be so bad, I promise."

I can't even really complain to my husband because he'll just remind me he's going to be 40 in August lol

I'm sure i'll get used to it :)

[Latasha]

Lol! My sister always says she’s 28 so I’m
3 years older than her. I always use her math 😝

[Tyler]

Latasha wrote: "Lol! My sister always says she’s 28 so I’m
3 years older than her. I always use her math 😝"

Lol!

[Ashley]

Happy early Birthday Stephanie! The 30s aren't bad. Having said that I have no intention of turning 40 in August. I'm staying 39.
The 8th sounds like a good day start The New Boy for me.

[Tyler]

Thank you Ashley :)

[Melanie]

Happy birthday for the 10th in case I forget, and you're not turning 30, you're reaching LEVEL 30. I'll be on level 48 in March, can't wait!

[Alice]

Happy early birthday, Stephanie!! I'll be 35 on May 14th.

Wow, the first time I'm in a group of people with most everyone at 30+ Whenever I find myself in some sort of group (for reading, writing...etc) I always end up with teenagers or early 20s. I used to role-play (writing stories with a partner) and all the players were young. I turned down a lot of young partners because no matter how innocent I am, it could bite me in the butt.

I never partnered with her, but we found out someone who was saying she was 20+ and doing sexual role plays was actually 9!!

Sorry I got on a weird tangent.

[Tyler]

Melanie wrote: "Happy birthday for the 10th in case I forget, and you're not turning 30, you're reaching LEVEL 30. I'll be on level 48 in March, can't wait!"

Thank you and yay for leveling up!

Thank you too Leigha! Sorry, seems we posted at the same time. :)

[Melanie]

Leigha wrote: "Happy early birthday, Stephanie!! I'll be 35 on May 14th.

Wow, the first time I'm in a group of people with most everyone at 30+ Whenever I find myself in some sort of group (for reading, writing...."

Shit Leigha that 's friggin' terrifying, at 9 I was still playing with my Barbies and hoping to become a mermaid!

[Tyler]

That is terrifying. At 9 I was watching Nickelodeon and playing my super Nintendo.

[Alice]

It is scary. I was a clueless 9yo. I always felt sad. Where were her parents? I know I would be monitoring online time for my kids if I had any, especially at 9. (Some parents don't care and some don't know about the dangers, I guess? Kids are getting smart, too. They know more about computers than their parents do!)

It wasn't a bad site, but not run by professionals by any means and they never thought about putting an official age limit in the rules. They did change it so you could be there at 16+ with parent permission (for the members who were already there before the age limit changed) and 18+ for new members and only 18+ could be in mature role plays. Those days are gone, the site ended up getting shut down anyway. The server did not approve of things about PG13.

[Latasha]

I stopped at a used book store and found blind date and beach party and s few others I didn’t have. All 1.50 or less!

[Melanie]

Latasha wrote: "I stopped at a used book store and found blind date and beach party and s few others I didn’t have. All 1.50 or less!"

SCORE! I want a used book store like that near me.

[Alice]

In our town, we have a Half Priced Books outlet (all the leftover books from the bigger stores) so our store is always really lacking in horror, especially cheesy teen horror. The "real" HPB is about an hour drive and we hardly ever make that trip. lol I would make that trip more often if possible, but it is not!

[Latasha]

THE NEW BOY-
Janie honey no. you can't change him. Just admire from afar.

[Tyler]

I have achieved level 30! Also I've read 6 chapters of The New Boy so far. I'm enjoying it.

[Alice]

Happy Birthday, Stephanie!! Welcome to level 30! May all your dreams come true!

[Tyler]

Leigha wrote: "Happy Birthday, Stephanie!! Welcome to level 30! May all your dreams come true!"

Thank you! :)

[Tyler]

Chapter 11 (view spoiler)[My thought upon Janie running to someone else's house to call the police was "that'd never happen now a days, they would just pull out their cell phone. If a kid reads this today they will probably think "why didn't they just pull out their cell phone? God...i'm old. lol" Poor Eve T.T (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 12 (view spoiler)[ Well Janie obviously thinks better of Ross than I do. Ross is suspect number 1 at the moment to me, granted that probably means it wasn't him. (hide spoiler)]

[Ashley]

I feel like we're on a red head streak.

[Latasha]

lol I know what you mean Ashley!

[Alice]

Now if he could make the redheads not like Reva, I'd be happy!

I'm only on chapter 2 of this book, so hopefully the girl in this is nothing like Reva haha

Chapter 1-2
Do you notice there is always some form of body shaming in the first few chapters?

Nice joke to play on a friend.

Why you all got to be so boy crazed?

[Alice]

Chapter 9

(view spoiler)[ I am the last person to victim blame, and we don't know if Ross did anything to Eve, but why would you go off alone with a person you do not know at all? Why would you chance a walk in some dark, creepy woods with a more or less stranger? Fear Street woods, no less!

I'm clueless about dating, but there must be safer ways! I never had to "date" because I met my husband in middle school and then we met again when we were in our 20s. Instant connection and we knew and trusted each other already. I couldn't imagine going on a date/sort of blind date with someone.

Maybe this is old age making me sound like a worry wart mom (I'm not a mom, but you know.) (hide spoiler)]

[Alice]

I finished. Gave it a 3, but I'm not sure about my rating.

With the nostalgic factor, I can overlook/put on nostalgia blinders for the most part, but boy do most, if not all female main characters in R L Stine's books do dumb things! I know these books are the product of the 90s and things were really different in the world back then and people are smarter today about dating, going places with strangers...etc (at least I hope so! Play it safe, folks!)

I still like Fear Street, some of the storylines are more hit and miss than others. I like how you can read the stories in whatever order, but there are small nods to other books that you will notice if you've read a bunch. This book mentioned the Dalby Department store and Pam Dalby, who are from the Silent Night books.(Remember dear Reva?)

Also, Ricky Schorr (the class clown) is mentioned and he shows up in a few books when someone is yelling at him, accusing him of doing something, like setting off a stink bomb. The main book where he had a bigger role was The Halloween Party. That's pretty neat. One day I will challenge myself to actually read them in order. (If I can ever find and buy them all.)

[Tyler]

Leigha Ch 9 (view spoiler)[Yea that didn't make any sense to me either. I'm just chalking it up to them being teenagers. Yes, Ross might be innocent but going off with a complete stranger like that, who i'd be too suspicious of at the moment, doesn't seem like a bright idea. I mean if something happens to her it's still the fault of the person who did it, not trying to victim blame. But i'd definitely be worrying too much. (hide spoiler)]

I've read 18 chapters so far.

[Latasha]

Ricky also has a big part in the Overnight.

[Ashley]

He does tend to open with body shaming and bad friends Leigha.
And no, personally I'm not into blind dates or late night walks in the woods.