What are you currently reading?
The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories by Henry James
Roots by Alex Haley
What did you just finish reading?
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Geeks by Sam Maggs
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
What do you think you’ll read next?
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Five Night Stand by Richard Alley
Washington by Ron Chernow
What are you currently reading?
The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers and Two Stories by Henry James
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
What did you just finish reading?
The True American by Anand Giridharadas
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Good Girl by Sarah Tomlinson
What do you think you’ll read next?
The Fan Girl’s Guide to the Galaxy by Sam Maggs
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Roots by Alex Haley
My picks for this morning’s post aren’t haunting in a spooky way. I could have picked any of the Stephen Kings on my shelves, but I haven’t read many of them yet, so to me, they aren’t very haunting.
No, the two books that jumped out at me as I looked around the room looking for “Haunting Reads” were these two:
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender, which is about the Holocaust, and Roots by Alex Haley–and almost everyone knows the topic of that one–slavery in America.
Pretty haunting topics in my opinion. Hate and prejudices have been weighing a lot on my mind lately, so don’t be surprised to see these pop up on my reread list sometime soon.
Dedications are not something I usually pay much attention to. Mostly because I’m just impatient to get to the story. But when I started opening my books yesterday, I found some really beautiful memoriums. Here are two of my favorites.
The first is from Roots by Alex Haley. I have a really old copy that I’ve had forever, something I got from a used book sale forever ago.
The second is from Cujo by Stephen King. I was not expecting such a lovely sentiment in such a scary book!
As I Lay Reading 