Mission: Books 21/25

[entangled_now]

I'm determined to finish this challenge before the end of the year. Because it's been excellent at getting me to read things. I have some graphic novels, some new recommendations and some sequels. I'm going to get it done.

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[nausicaa83]

The last book that really scared me was Neil Gaiman's The Ocean At The End of the Lane, that I read last year. The story is the usual creepy story Gaiman likes to write (and that I like to read), but there's a scene where a father is about to phisically hurt his son, and you get a whole paragraph of the kid describing how it feels to know that you're about to be hurt, and you can't escape, and it freaking triggered me into a panic attack. It wasn't even what specifically was happening, but the feeling of helplessness that was described so vividly. It absolutely terrified me.

I managed to finish the book, but yeah, I'm never going to touch it again.

[entangled_now]

I was recommended that book but I eventually decided it didn't sound like it had quite enough stuff going on. I have Anansi Boys as a possible Bestseller though, I've never read that one.

I read a lot of horror as a child, so I tend not to be affected by most of the usual horror set pieces. And a few of them make me angry/frustrated for the characters rather than scared. I do occasionally get creeped out by 'ordinary stuff is suddenly untrustworthy' which House of Leaves did well in places (and I was sad that I found vast chunks of the book so boring.) But you never know if you're going to get any of that until you actually read the book. I think I have memories of being very uncomfortable reading Cujo, but I can't absolutely remember if that was the film or the book.

So I felt like a book I was scared to read was my best bet.

[jkivela]

I don't think I'll make it. :( Just been too busy. I have like 1/3 of "It" to finish, and then the book based on a real life event. I have one picked out, but unless Christmas weekend is really relaxed, I don't think I'll have enough time.

I will try and finish both books anyway, even if I can't post reviews until January. Looking forward to the release of the next card for 2015 though.

[entangled_now]

Yes, I really wanted to finish it this year in case there was one for 2015 and it looked fun. I meant to catch up in November but it turned out to be too busy with other things.

I've got a few short ones I could read in the evenings and a longer one for the weekend. Which only leaves me one book to fill out the last square, so I should be ok. I don't write hugely long reviews

[jkivela]

My reviews are pretty short too, I should have picked a shorter book than "It" for the scary one though. And maybe not signed up to review so many books for one of those book review websites.

[entangled_now]

There's nothing like things getting backed up when you're near the end of a project.

My reading speed tends to depend on how much I'm enjoying a book. Good books I can fly through, but bad books the pages seem to last forever so I'm trying to pick books I'm going to find at least interesting for the last few squares.

[pyjamagurl]

Goodreads informed me that I read a whole ten books this year. I genuinely thought I'd done better than that...

I've probably read a metric craptonne of fanfic that's why...

I have zero hope of finishing the book bingo :(

I also don't know that chew would be a book I could read without being ill xD

[entangled_now]

I've been cramming in books I felt like reading but didn't fit any of my bingo squares (which might be the reason I had to rush through the last few.) But I've also read a craptonne of fanfic so I feel like I have been punishing myself - though I've enjoyed the hell out of it so I'm probably not allowed to complain.

I love book and I'd been lazy about reading for a few years so I felt like I had to finish my bingo.

There are definitely a couple of pages in Chew that I would have flat out just not watched if they'd been in a TV show. Honestly some of the evidence he eats has been in bags in evidence storage for... a while. So gross.

[pyjamagurl]

I had every intention of reading as many books as I could get my grabby mitts on, but geez there have been so many I've picked up that were awful and I gave up, or sounded better than they were, and now I have no idea what I want to read because I've been disappointed by everything lately. Except comics. I've been enjoying the comics I've read.

There are books in the past I've been put off because of their depiction of particularly disturbing things, I think I guy eating particularly rank stuff would put me off D:

[entangled_now]

I've had days like that, and I hate giving up halfway through, I have to at the very least skim to the end to see how it turns out (a book has to be awful before I'll just dump it - like bad fanfic awful.) But I have been reading some great graphic novels recently, especially new Hellboy, BPRD and Witch Doctor. Locke and Key I wasn't as impressed with, after hearing all the good things people said about it.

I was put off, honestly no one should read it if they're not comfortable watching a man eat bits of rotten dead dog - I am slightly traumatised.