Weekly-ish Reading
Apr. 18th, 2020 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maplemoodI haven't been reading as much or finishing books as quickly for a couple different reasons (schoolwork, quarantine, working my way through Anna Karenina), and I'm trying not to let that be just another thing to stress about. On the bright side, I'm making good progress on Anna Karenina! Still nowhere near done, but I'm up to Part IV now. For the past week or so I've only had the energy to read the bare minimum I set for myself--one chapter a day--but I'm expecting that to change once the semester finishes.
Today I finished Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist; I feel like I read this one in a couple big chunks spaced out over my more high-energy days. Which could or could not actually be true, since I'm hardly keeping track of the days anymore except for assignment deadlines, BUT I went from liking this book to loving it in its last quarter or so, where (for me, anyway) the plot finally picked up in a major way. The story and writing style both feel very Stephen-King-inspired: you've got your lonely kid from a broken home, your psychopathic bullies, your scattered side characters whose separate plot threads all eventually intersect, your gross-out gore, and your focus on intimate, gross and/or humiliating physical details. More than one characters gets so scared that they wet their pants; another character can't stop cutting into her veins and drinking her own blood after she's transformed into a vampire. There's also a weirdly heartwarming ending, which I always love capping off a Stephen King book and loved here, too.
Today I finished Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist; I feel like I read this one in a couple big chunks spaced out over my more high-energy days. Which could or could not actually be true, since I'm hardly keeping track of the days anymore except for assignment deadlines, BUT I went from liking this book to loving it in its last quarter or so, where (for me, anyway) the plot finally picked up in a major way. The story and writing style both feel very Stephen-King-inspired: you've got your lonely kid from a broken home, your psychopathic bullies, your scattered side characters whose separate plot threads all eventually intersect, your gross-out gore, and your focus on intimate, gross and/or humiliating physical details. More than one characters gets so scared that they wet their pants; another character can't stop cutting into her veins and drinking her own blood after she's transformed into a vampire. There's also a weirdly heartwarming ending, which I always love capping off a Stephen King book and loved here, too.
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