October has been off to an amazing start. First there has been blogoween, which has been a blast. Them it is getting cooler, the nights are getting longer, and I can now light a bunch of autumn smelling candles and not get laughed at for burning apple scented things in the middle of the summer. Also, my reading this week has done very well. I read more than I thought I would and I started a book I have been wanting to read for the past few months and I have been saving it for October. Without more of a delay, here is my reading week.

The Outsider by Stephen King

I absolutely adored this Stephen King novel. It was the perfect mixture of the real world and the monsters and paranormal beasts that I look for in one of his books. Not only was the monster interesting and I liked how it was pulled from myths and such, but the characters felt real. I really enjoyed seeing a lot of another character I never thought I would see again. I nearly yelled in joy when that happened. Now, I will say that there is a very, very graphic crime that happens that is really appalling. So if that kind of stuff gets to you it might not be the read for you.

Salem’s Witch House: A Touchstone to Antiquity by John Goff

So I was super excited to read this book, I ended up being disappointed. The book was more of a history of who lived in the house and what stores it had been and less about the role it had during the Salem witch trials. While it was interesting I found the name it be a tad bit misleading so it left be just feeling like I missed out on something. If you know nothing about the history of the house and such, this would be a good read for you.

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

I just picked this up and happened to put it on hold as an audiobook at my library and it became available within a day or so. I ended up flying through this novel very quickly since it was under 300 pages, nearly unheard of when dealing with a King novel. I will admit that I am intrigued by this series when I thought I would have absolutely no interest in it. It is very different from what I thought it would be, but I was also not totally in love with it as well. Over all this was an okay read, there really was no horror it was more of a slow burning science fiction. You can easily see that this is a set up book for the series. I found myself enjoying the characters and worlds created here.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

I was so excited to read this since I read The Red Pony and reread Of Mice of Men this year. I really enjoy John Steinbeck’s writing style, it just seems to flow. This is one of the bigger novels of his that I have read and I really enjoyed this novel that spanned multiple generations. I can see why my uncle says it is his favorite book and that I needed to read it.

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born by by Peter David, Robin Furth, Jae Lee, Richard Isanove, Stephen King

So, right after reading the novel I decided to read the graphic novel adaptation. I guess you would call it an adaptation? If I am wrong please let me know. Anyway, I really liked that the graphic novel is a bit different, well has a different story to tell completely. But, at the same times it isn’t. It is really hard to explain in this little blurb, I think I might just do an entire post comparing them. Any who, I really enjoyed this and it bought the world visually more to life for me and I can picture what happened in the book even more vividly than I could before.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

I finally started to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Apart from The Haunting of Hill House, which I LOVE, this is the second most talked about book of Jacksons. So I am very happy to have started this. So far I am really enjoying the feel of this book and I am excited to see where it goes.

Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller

So my aunt gave me this book with no explanation other than saying she wanted to know what I thought about it. So far I think this book is all over the place and VERY stream on consciousness. It is a very weird book, but I am curious to see where it goes because I think it honestly can go in any where.

To Be Determined, I honestly have no idea what I am in the mood to read right now.

What did you read this week?

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