What was the last book you read? I'm currently reading The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud. Before that, I read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
Tell us about the book? (genre, characters, etc)The Screaming Staircase is a YA paranormal mystery novel set in an alternative universe where ghosts ('Visitors') are a common phenomenon and various agencies take care of these apparitions. Our main characters are Lucy, Lockwood and George, and when their latest case goes pear-shaped, they have to somehow come up with the money to cover the damages. As luck would have it, a case drops in their laps that would cover the entire sum... so where's the catch
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Thanks! I haven't read it yet. It's on my list, but my list is looooong. I have read some of his other books (The Last Dragonslayer and the Nursery Crimes), so I'm sure I'll enjoy The Eyre Affair.
LOL My TBR list has 2,645 books on it. Add in the 3 physical books sitting on my shelf at the moment plus the probably 290+ books on my tablet :D I completely get the oh crap adding more books to my TBR list
hehe, part of it comes from entering Goodreads giveaways :) But still... I've been a keeping a TBR list (first word, then excel, then Goodreads) for a long time
Sort of. There are different categories of ghosts in the book - some are just shadows/noises/etc. But others are more violent and can appear as they looked when they were alive. So far, one ghost in the book killed someone (by tripping/scaring them into falling down the stairs). (And the bit I'm getting to now is about a haunted house where people have died/disappeared without a trace and the heroes are about to spend the night there, so there's potential for scary stuff.)
I always find reading about ghosts less scary than watching them on TV though.
I just finished the book and I enjoyed it. The mystery was neatly tied up (in a way I did end up suspecting about halfway through the last part, but if you read a lot of mysteries you get sort of attuned to how these things play out) and the ghosts were cool. I'm going to see if I can find the next one in the series. *g*
I use my breaks at work to read - I rarely have time to read at home. But I have about an hour total every day and that evens out to about one book a week. I do read way more fanfic than books - it's just easier to find something exactly like what I'm in the mood for, and that's much harder to do with books. (I really wish books came with tags and warnings sometimes.)
I'm currently reading The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud. Before that, I read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
Tell us about the book? (genre, characters, etc)The Screaming Staircase is a YA paranormal mystery novel set in an alternative universe where ghosts ('Visitors') are a common phenomenon and various agencies take care of these apparitions. Our main characters are Lucy, Lockwood and George, and when their latest case goes pear-shaped, they have to somehow come up with the money to cover the damages. As luck would have it, a case drops in their laps that would cover the entire sum... so where's the catch ( ... )
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Sort of. There are different categories of ghosts in the book - some are just shadows/noises/etc. But others are more violent and can appear as they looked when they were alive. So far, one ghost in the book killed someone (by tripping/scaring them into falling down the stairs). (And the bit I'm getting to now is about a haunted house where people have died/disappeared without a trace and the heroes are about to spend the night there, so there's potential for scary stuff.)
I always find reading about ghosts less scary than watching them on TV though.
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Same! (even though I watch Buzzfeed Unsolved supernatural (and true crime) and tend to watch those videos like at midnight, lol).
This book sounds so good, I ma going to check to see if the public library has the book for me to take it out.
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The Ancillary Justice series does sound interesting though.
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