Tag: IT

• Stephen King’s IT Parade: The Booklist Reader

  Anybody getting excited for the new movie adaptation of IT? I am not sure it will be as good as The Gunslinger, but my hopes are high, as IT is probably the Stephen King book I have read more than any other. (Its competition is The Stand–I can’t remember which one I’ve read more times.) I don’t quite feel up […]

  Shannon Turlington

  July 31, 2017

  Asides

  Daniel Kraus, IT, Links, Movie adaptations, Stephen King, The Booklist Reader

• Halloween picks: The Scariest books

  I usually like to get in the Halloween spirit by reading a scary book or two. This year, my top pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like Stephen King, you’ll love this book by his son. Not only does it read like King, but it reads like King at his absolute best–one of those great big […]

  Shannon Turlington

  October 30, 2014

  Reading

  Classics, Day of the Triffids, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, Halloween, Haunting of Hill House, Heart-Shaped Box, HG Wells, Horror, House on the Borderland, HP Lovecraft, Ira Levin, IT, Joe Hill, John Wyndham, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Max Brooks, NOS4A2, Ray Bradbury, Rosemary’s Baby, Scariest books, Scary, Scott Smith, Shirley Jackson, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Stephen King, The Ruins, The Shining, War of the Worlds, William Hope Hodgson, World War Z

• Accidentally reading about reptiles…

  I realized with the first two reads of the year, I have an accidental theme going on: reptiles in my fiction! With Swamplandia! it was alligators; then there is a snake in The Burn Palace: A Novel. Our upcoming book club read is set in Texas, so I wonder if a lizard will figure into the plot. […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 20, 2014

  Reading

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alligators, Burn Palace, Crocodiles, Dark Tower, Dinosaurs, Everything’s Eventual, Fictional reptiles, Horns, IT, Jungle Book, Jurassic Park, Just So Stories, Little Friend, Lonesome Dove, Lost World, No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Poisonwood Bible, Reading, Reptiles, Small Gods, Snakes, Swamplandia!, Turtles