The Croning
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Buddy read with GR friend hipnoticraQs. If you're lurking and want to join, welcome!
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On chapter 3, dark and twisted story so far!! Thinking this might be a winner!!
It's a completely different feel to it, isn't it? From the stuff we've been reading lately? Or from what I've been reading, at any rate. The author's writing is sharp and acidic and blends perfectly with the dark subject matter. I'm currently around chapter 6 or so, with the octogenarians. The pace has slowed down, but there's an overidding creepiness factor that seems to pervade everything. Almost as if we're waiting for the hammer to drop.
I’m at the point when Michelle has gone off to her anthropology retreat and Don is left home alone. He’s reminiscing about how he met his future wife as a college student, and I just realized, “oh, he’s in trouble.”
You're ahead of me a little. I need to get on it.
I was wrong, I’m at chapter 5, not 6. I’ll slow down
“We’re here to save the free world. We’re all that stands between your overeducated ass and the Not With a Bang, But A Whimper ending of the world.
I'll start reading when I'm home.
At Luther miller's grave. Waiting to see how these stories tie in.
Don and his son just went camping. The son just confessed some righteous spooky stuff. It’s all about the women, I think.
I got the storyline straight and I think I’ve figured out just what the f is going on. The Millers and the Mooks. Family legacies and the children of Old Leech. Can’t wait till you get there.
Haunted department store
I have no idea what's going on
You’re not supposed to at this point. That feeling of loss is done deliberately, I believe, and all goes back to Don Miller, the husband.
The department store story makes sense once the father and son go on their solo camping trip without any women around.
Losing momentum
That's cause you're also reading some other heavy hitters right now. I'm telling you, it all comes together in some weird mindfuck for Don. It's a back and forth time loop, and it's fucked now because Don's brain is swiss cheese, literally, but we don't know it yet.
Can't ........make........it......:(
It's.....ooooo....kaaayyy. I enjoyed reading it with you, if only partially. :)
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