TWO BOOKS

The Shining, by Stephen King

AHHHH SO GOOD.

This book made me sleep with a lamp on for one night (after I read about the vixen of room 217). This book also gave me the literary equivalent of a "screamer" (it's a stupid fucking type of youtube video that always features a scary face and a recorded scream to totally fucking freak you right the fuck out. And possibly scream out loud so you look like an idiot.) The screamer in question occurred when Danny walks around a corner and is confronted with a bloody man wearing a silver dog suit, with small, red eyes. I have a gift, my friends. I can get so immersed in a book that I picture it happening right as I read it, and when I read something scary there is no time for a filter to take out the truly horrifying shit before BAM! there it is right in my head. And once it's in there, there's no getting it out.

I believe I may have gasped. Out loud. In my empty room. FROM ONLY A BOOK.

Another little animated gif that will stay with me forever: Jack beating his own head with a mallet. Was that in the movie? It should have been. I refuse to watch it to find out, because I LIKE sleeping, and I'd like to do it again, soon. And regular.

I can't believe that I went this long without reading this book, though. I can't believe what I went SO LONG missing!!!

Ghost in the Machine (Skeleton Creek 2), by Patrick Carman

Same as the first one--LOVE the videos. Got a little annoying because I kept having to load of the computer for the nephew, but at least when it was my turn to read the book I could skip it all. I'm really glad this is the end, because the cliffhanger ending of the first one REALLY pissed me off.