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Jan 18, 2019 10:27AM
It happens. I like most Fear Street books. Glad you enjoyed it :)
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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.
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 wrote: "Thanks Leigha!"No problem! Hope I'm not stepping on any mod toes by answering questions. :)
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!
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.
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 wrote: "Aww! Happy early birthday!"Thank you :) My plans are just saying goodbye to my 20s lol
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 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 wrote: "Lol! My sister always says she’s 28 so I’m3 years older than her. I always use her math 😝"
Lol!
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.
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!
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.
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. :)
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
Leigha wrote: "Happy Birthday, Stephanie!! Welcome to level 30! May all your dreams come true!"Thank you! :)
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?
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.)
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