On My WishList (#22)

 On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where we list all the books we desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

I haven't been active with the wishlist meme the past two weeks 'cause I've been busy with things and I really didn't came up with books that I really wanted. But now I'm back again! And here's my list.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

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(Goodreads)

 The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart

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Random Thoughts

I've read many reviews of it, only good ones and they are just saying positive things about it and the concept seems interesting enough for me!

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Innfødte skrik by Håvard Rem

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Random Thoughts 

Norwegian book about Norwegian black metal. I don't know if you already know but I love, love Black Metal and my fave band is Dimmu Borgir. (Don't know if you've heard about them? They are real good). But I love all sorts of metal. Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, Heavy Metal etc. I'm not a chick with only black clothes, who's wearing heavy black metal  but I just love that type of music. Norwegian Black Metal isn't very big in Norway but in foreign countries and I would like to read something about this phenomenon. Why is Norwegian metal so big in other countries than in the homecountry itself and I would like to know more about the genre itself. I think this book would be superinteresting to read!

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 Not many books on my list this time but enough to call it a list, right?

On My WishList (#21)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James

(Goodreads)

An international sensation that The Wall Street Journal called a “publishing phenomenon,” this layered, poignant, and chilling novel of psychological suspense is the year’s most stunning American fiction debut. From its wrenching opening to its shocking climax, Beautiful Malice unfolds a haunting story in which people, motives, and circumstances are never what they seem.

Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past, Katherine has moved to a new city, enrolled in a new school, and even changed her name. She’s done the next best thing to disappearing altogether. Now, wary and alone, she seeks nothing more than anonymity. What she finds instead is the last thing she expected: a friend.

Even more unlikely, Katherine’s new friend is the most popular and magnetic girl in school. Extroverted, gorgeous, flirtatious, and unpredictable, she is everything that Katherine is not and doesn’t want to be: the center of attention. Yet Alice’s enthusiasm is infectious, her candor sometimes unsettling, and Katherine, in spite of her guarded caution, finds herself drawn into Alice’s private circle.

But Alice has secrets, too—darker than anyone can begin to imagine. And when she lets her guard down at last, Katherine discovers the darkest of them all. For there will be no escaping the past for Katherine Patterson—only a descent into a trap far more sinister . . . and infinitely more seductive.

Random Thoughts

Interesting plot and trailer. Enough reasons for me to want to read it!

Book Trailer 

 

The Truth About Celia Frost by Paula Rawsthorne

(Goodreads)

Celia Frost is a freak. At least that's what everyone thinks. Her life is ruled by a rare disorder that means she could bleed to death from the slightest cut, confining her to a gloomy bubble of safetyA". No friends. No fun. No life. But when a knife attack on Celia has unexpected consequences, her mum reacts strangely. Suddenly they're on the run. Why is her mum so scared? Someone out there knows - and when they find Celia, she's going to wish the truth was a lie - A buried secret; a gripping manhunt; a dangerous deceit: what is the truth about Celia Frost? A page-turning thriller that's impossible to put down.

Random Thoughts

I want to know the truth about Celia Frost too! I'm curious! I have my suspicious but I want to know I I'm right or not:)

On My WishList (#20)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

Sorry that I haven't been able to update the blog this week. It's been hectic and the time just flies real fast. It's hard to keep up but I'm doing the best I can. So the blog is still alive.

The Ritual by Adam Nevill

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(Goodreads)

And on the third day things did not get better. The rain fell hard and cold, the white sun never broke through the low grey cloud, and they were lost. But it was the dead thing they found hanging from a tree that changed the trip beyond recognition. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With limited fitness and experience between them, a shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, Luke figures things couldn't possibly get any worse. But then they stumble across an old habitation. Ancient artefacts decorate the walls and there are bones scattered upon the dry floors. The residue of old rites and pagan sacrifice for something that still exists in the forest. Something responsible for the bestial presence that follows their every step. And as the four friends stagger in the direction of salvation, they learn that death doesn't come easy among these ancient trees...

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Random Thoughts

I love watching book reviews on youtube and someone (don't remember who...I'm so sorry...) gave this book 5 out of 5 stars. She read the book in a day and thought it was a creepy and exciting book. It's not a young adult but that's ok. I read a lot of ya books and books for adult so I don't mind. I really want to read this one. It really sounds like a good read for me!

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It's a very short list. I know...but it's the only book I can think of now that I really, really want!

On My WishList (#19)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

Anna dressed in blood by Kendare Blake

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(Goodreads)

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. 

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.

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Random Thoughts

I've heard great things abut it and the cover hypnotize me. Really want to get this book and see what everyone is talking about.

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 Just after sunset by Stephen King

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(Goodreads)

Stephen King — who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies — delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of Just After Sunset. The stories in this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, Esquire, and other publications.

Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating — and then terrifying — journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable — and resourceful — as Audrey Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalypticthreat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it.

Just After Sunset — call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.

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Random Thoughts

Not a fan of short stories but as long as it's written by authors like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl, then I'm all for it. And as long as it's in the horror/mystery genre. 

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The collected short stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl

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(Goodreads)

This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: "Over To You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and eight further stories: "The Umberella man"; "Mr Botibol"; "Vengeance in Mine inc"; "The Butler"; "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"; "The Bookseller"; and, "The Hitchhiker, The Surgeon".

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Random Thoughts

I read many books by Roald Dahl when I was a kid. And my fave book by him was The Witches and I read that book over and over again. I never got tired of it and I still love that book today.  I have also read some short stories by him but not enough. The few stories I've read by him has been from the mystery genre and I remember them as very clever. So I would definitely like to read more shorts stories by this amazing author.

On My WishList (#18)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

 Unmasked: The True Life Story of The World's Most Profilic, Cinematic Killer by Kane Hodder and Michael Aloisi

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(Goodreads)

Unmasked documents the unlikely true story of a boy who was taunted and beaten relentlessly by bullies throughout his childhood. Kane only escaped his tormentors when he moved to a tiny island in the South Pacific where he lived for all of his teen years. After living shirtless in a jungle for a while, he headed back to America where he fell in love with doing stunts-only to have his love burn him, literally. For the first time ever, Kane tells the true story of the horrific burn injury that nearly killed him at the start of his career. The entire heart-wrenching, inspirational story of his recovery, the emotional and physical damage it caused, his fight to break back into the industry that almost killed him, and his triumphant rise to become a film legend are told in Kane's own powerful voice. Take a peek inside the head of the man behind the mask. Be inspired by his triumphant comeback and laugh at his on-set hijinks as you unmask the world's most prolific, cinematic killer.

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Random Thoughts

Never heard about Kane Hodder, you say? I don't believe you, 'cause I'm pretty sure you've seen him in one or more movies. You are probably just not aware of it. 'Cause he is a famous stuntman who has been Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th movies). There have been different men to be Jason but no one has been Jason more times than Kane Hodder. So, that's his most known and biggest role. But he is also known as Victor Crowley (from the Hatchet movies), and he is not only doing acting. His main job is of course stunts and he has been doing stunts in movies like Se7en, Frozen, The Fan, and many more. Us horror fans who grew up with horror/scary movies recognize him, even in very small roles as in Frozen .He seems like a fun and characteristic guy.

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 Darkness, tell us by Richard Laymon

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(Goodreads)

At an end-of-term college party, six students come across a Ouija board. When a spirit called Butler tells them of a fortune hidden in the mountains, they head off on a two-day hike into the wilderness, where any danger may lie in wait to cut and slice and tear them limb from limb.

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Random Thoughts

I have read some Richard Laymon books before and I love them. It's not serious horror but pure fun and thrilling books. I wish to read more books by him soon.

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I'm not a serial killer by Dan Wells

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(Goodreads)

John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.

He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.

He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.

Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don’t demand or expect the empathy he’s unable to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there’s something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means.

Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can’t control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.

Dan Wells’s debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.

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Random Thoughts

I love the title! Very cool and the synopsis sounds exciting to me. I defititely want to read it.

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Have you read any of these books and what do you think?

On My WishList (#17)

   

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

The Dead of Winter by Chir Priestley

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(Goodreads)

Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will ...Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesn't mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. This is a nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley

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Random Thoughts

The cover is pretty cool. Never heard about the author but I like to try books from authors I haven't heard anything about. And I like books that has anything about hauntings. I'm a sucker when it comes to horror. Sure is my fave genre.

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 Bad Girls Don't Die by Kaite Alender

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(Goodreads)

When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks nothing of it. Kasey is a weird kid. Period. Alexis is considered weird, too, by the kids in her high school, by her parents, even by her own Goth friends. Things get weirder, though, when the old house they live in starts changing. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in. Kasey is changing, too. Her blue eyes go green and she speaks in old-fashioned language, then forgets chunks of time.
Most disturbing of all is the dangerous new chip on Kasey's shoulder. The formerly gentle, doll-loving child is gone, and the new Kasey is angry. Alexis is the only one who can stop her sister — but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore?

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Random Thoughts

Creepy cover and I've heard good things about this book and the sequel. Very promising!

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 I am legend by Richard Matheson

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(Goodreads)

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

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Random Thoughts

Isn't it enough to say it's written by Richard Matheson? Never seen the movie (not a big Will Smith fan) but I do want to read the book! I've been wanting to read it a long time. And it's pretty cool that Matheson's parents were Norwegian immigrants.

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Nighttime is my time by Mary Higgins Clark

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(Goodreads)

"The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am The Owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.'"

Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end.

Adding to Jean's sense of unease is a taunting, anonymous fax she received, referring to her daughter -- a child she had given up for adoption twenty years ago.

At the award dinner, Jean is introduced to Sam Deegan, a detective obsessed by the unsolved murder of a young woman who may hold the key to the identity of the Stonecroft killer. Jean does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is The Owl, a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance against the Stonecroft women who had mocked and humiliated him, with Jean as his final victim.

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Random Thoughts

It's been a long time since I've read anything by Mary Higgins Clark. I think I've only read three books by her so far. I've read No place like home, A cry in the night and Where are you now? I really liked No place like home, but I really loved A cry in the night. That was a very creepy read. Loved it. Where are you now was a little bit disappointing but an ok read. But lately I've been thinking it's been a while since I've read a Mary Higgins Clark book. So I hope to get the chance to do it soon someday. I'm very curious about Nighttime is my time. Love the title and the cover looks scary to me.

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Ancient Japanese Ghost Stories by Toyo Hashi

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(Goodreads)

The stories in this volume were first recorded in 1918 by Richard Gordon Smith, who spent twenty years traveling in Japan and collecting vintage folklore related to supernatural events. This edited and updated version of the century-old text preserves a timeless and contemporary theme for a modern audience to explore. Over 50 stories are documented in this rare collection that once again shines a light on Japanese myths and the haunting tales of ghosts in its ancient culture.

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Random Thoughts

After seeing the movie Ringu for the first time I've been obsessed with Asian Horror especially Japanese Horror. Yeah, yeah, we are probably tired of scary girls with long, black hair but what's great about Japanese horror is it's so much more than that. They got always deep stories and gives you a scare that actually makes you think unlike the Hollywood Horror. Some Hollywood Horror is good especially from 80 and the 90s (and earlier). Just tired of all the remakes.

But I do love Japanese anthology as well. Lately I've been spending a lot of time on YouTube watching Ghost stories from Japan episodes, Goosebumps from Japan and similar episodes like that. I just love them! So, I really want to read this book!

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Have you read any of the books?

And what's on your list?

On My WishList (#16)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

Sweetly by Jackson Pearce

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(Goodreads)

SWEETLY is a modernization of Hansel and Gretel and a companion book to SISTERS RED.

Twelve years ago, Gretchen, her twin sister, and her brother went looking for a witch in the forest. They found something. Maybe it was a witch, maybe a monster, they aren’t sure—they were running too fast to tell. Either way, Gretchen’s twin sister was never seen again.

Years later, after being thrown out of their house, Gretchen and Ansel find themselves in Live Oak, South Carolina, a place on the verge of becoming a ghost town. They move in with Sophia Kelly, a young and beautiful chocolatier owner who opens not only her home, but her heart to Gretchen and Ansel.

Yet the witch isn’t gone—it’s here, lurking in the forests of Live Oak, preying on Live Oak girls every year after Sophia Kelly’s infamous chocolate festival. But Gretchen is determined to stop running from witches in the forest, and start fighting back. Alongside Samuel Reynolds, a boy as quick with a gun as he is a sarcastic remark, Gretchen digs deeper into the mystery of not only what the witch is, but how it chooses its victims. Yet the further she investigates, the more she finds herself wondering who the real monster is, and if love can be as deadly as it is beautiful.

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Random Thoughts

Just look at the cover! It's creepy and I really want to go into that wood and see what's gonna happen! I love scary stuff.

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It's a short list...I know. But I can't come up with any other books at the moment.
What's on your list?

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On My WishList (#14)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

 The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger

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(Goodreads)

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.

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Random Thoughts

I'm very ashamed to say that I haven't read it yet! I should  a long time ago. I'm like the only person in the world who hasn't read it yet. And I should read more classics than I have. I should do something about it.

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Fall for anything by Courtney Summers

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(Goodreads)

From the author of Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are comes a gripping story about one girl’s search for clues into the mysterious death of her father.

When Eddie Reeves’s father commits suicide her life is consumed by the nagging question of why? Why when he was a legendary photographer and a brilliant teacher? Why when he seemed to find inspiration in everything he saw? And, most important, why when he had a daughter who loved him more than anyone else in the world? When she meets Culler Evans, a former student of her father’s and a photographer himself, an instant and dangerous attraction begins. Culler seems to know more about her father than she does and could possibly hold the key to the mystery surrounding his death. But Eddie’s vulnerability has weakened her and Culler Evans is getting too close. Her need for the truth keeps her hanging on...but are some questions better left unanswered?

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Random Thoughts

Sounds very interesting and the cover makes me curious. And I've heard good things about it.

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Chain Letter by Christopher Pike

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(Goodreads)

When Alison first read the chain letter signed "Your Caretaker," she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when she and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. And now that person was determined to make them pay for it.
One by one, the chain letter was coming to each of them ... demanding dangerous, impossible deeds... threatening violence if the demands were not met. No one out of the seven wanted to believe that this nightmare was really happening to them. Until the accidents started happening — and the dying...

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Random Thoughts

Seems like a fun read and I wish they could publish these kinds of books again today. Something similar. Horror books for ya from 80-90s were very cool and fun to read. I miss that kind of books. Like Goosebumps and something similar.

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What's on your WishList?

On My WishList (#13)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

The Sleepwalkers by J. Gabriel Gates

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(Goodreads)

A chilling and masterfully crafted teen horror novel guaranteed to keep the pages turning, the mind reeling, and the lamp on any reader's bedside table on long after midnight. Privileged and popular Caleb Mason is celebrating his high school graduation when he receives a mysterious, disturbing letter from his long-lost childhood playmate, Christine. Caleb and his jokester friend Bean decide to travel to his tiny hometown of Hudsonville, Florida, to find her. Upon arrival, they discover the town has taken a horrifying turn for the worse. Caleb's childhood home is abandoned and his father has disappeared. Children are going missing. The old insane asylum has reopened, and Christine is locked inside. Her mother, a witch, is consumed with madness, and Christine's long-dead twin sister whispers clues to Caleb through the static of an a.m. radio. The terrifying prophesies of the spirits are coming to pass. Sixteen clocks are ticking; sixty-six murdered souls will bring about the end of the world. As Caleb peels back layer after layer of mystery, he uncovers a truth more horrible than anything he had imagined, a truth that could only be uttered by the lips of the dead.

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Random Thoughts

It's horror and that's a good enough reason to want the book 'cause I really, really love horror and the cover is very cool.

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 Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles

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(Goodreads)

Sunny Reynold's sister, Jazz, dies in a fire. Then one day a letter arrives, a letter from Jazz. A girl follows. But she can't possibly be Jazz--or can she? She seems to know all the family secrets, but Not-Jazz clearly has a few secrets of her own. Compelling, edgy, and suspenseful, Dead Girls Don't Write Letters will keep you guessing. And just when you think you know what's real and what's not, Gail Giles unfurls another surprise.

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 Random Thoughts

Sounds really good to me. Exciting and suspenseful. Never get tired of that combination!

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Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

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(Goodreads)

St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . . .

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

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Random Thoughts

Very curious about this series. I've mostly heard good things about it. Even though I like the old version of vampires (the ones that dies in the sun, are dangerous etc) I want to read this series and other modern vampire series to get to know what "everyone" is talking about.

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The lying game by Sara Shepard

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(Goodreads)

I had a life anyone would kill for.
Then someone did.

The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet.
Now Emma’s desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be me—to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she’s the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?
From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.
Let the lying game begin.

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Random Thoughts

This summer I read the first four books in the Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard and enjoyed it. I'm gonna get the next books in the series as well but I'm also very curious about her new serious. It sounds suspenseful and fun.

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What's on your list?

On My WishList (#12)

 On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

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(Goodreads)

When Richard Mayhew stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.

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Random Thoughts

I've read two books by Neil Gaiman so far. Coraline was ok but I absolutely adored The Graveyardbook! And I definitely want to read more books by him and I'm planning to get Neverwhere someday 'cause I've only heard good things about it.

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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

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(Goodreads)

The classic novel about demonic possession.

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Random Thoughts

I've seen the movie many times and didn't get scared once but I love the story and I would really like to read the book as well.

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Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

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(Goodreads)

Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby has been reissued, and it reads even better now than it did when it first appeared. While the trappings are horror, the structure and tone of the story are those of a great middle-class crime story set in the turbulent '60s. A masterpiece. 

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Random Thoughts

I'm a sucker when it comes to horror movies. I never get tired of that genre. I love old horror movies better than modern but some modern horror movies is OK. I've seen this movie and always thought...why have I never read the book yet?

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Frost by Marianna Baer

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(Goodreads)

Leena Thomas’s senior year at boarding school begins with a shock: Frost House, her cozy dorm of close friends, has been assigned an unexpected roommate: confrontational, eccentric Celeste Lazar. But while Leena’s anxiety about a threat to her sanctuary proves valid, it becomes less and less clear whether the threat lies with her new roommate, within Leena’s own mind, or within the very nature of Frost House itself. Mysterious happenings in the dorm, an intense triangle between Leena, Celeste, and Celeste’s brother, and the reawakening of childhood fears, all push Leena to take increasingly desperate measures to feel safe. Frost is the story of a haunting. As to whether the demons are supernatural or psychological . . . well, which answer would let you sleep at night?

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Random Thoughts

Haunting...boarding school. I don't need to say more, do I? Very curious about this one!

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On My WishList (#11)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

Since I haven''t bought a single book in over a month (I've been a good girl trying to save some money cause I've bought books like crazy the first half year). So, I have many books I would like to get! There are always books I'd like to get! Here are some of them ...

Betrayed (House of Night #2) by P.C. and Kristin Cast

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(Goodreads)

Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night.  She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs--like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend…or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world.

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Random Thoughts

I read the first book of House of Night "Marked" and I fell in love with it. Still thinking about the series and I look forward to read the rest!

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Crescendo (Hush, Hush #2) by Becca Fitzpatrick

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(Goodreads)

Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it: a mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But, despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever and even worse, he's started spending time with Nora's arch-enemy, Marcie Millar.

Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn't been acting so distant. Even with Scott's totally infuriating attitude Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feeling that he's hiding something.

Haunted by images of her murdered father, and questioning whether her nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death, Nora puts herself increasingly in dangerous situations as she desperately searches for answers. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts.

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Random Thoughts

I've been reading some fantasy this summer but it feels like I'm way behind in all series. Most bloggers has read the whole series or waiting for the last book in the series. But hey better late than never and looking at the bright side, I don't have to wait that long for each book:)

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Wicked (Pretty Little Liars #5)

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(Goodreads)

In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad. . . .
Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family's secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom's taste in men.

Now that Ali's killer is finally behind bars, the girls think they're safe. But those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. And they should know by now that I'm always watching. . . .

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Random Thoughts

I'm almost done with Unbelievable (#4) in the series and almost done with it. I bought the books 1-4 at the same time in case I liked the series - which I does. And when I'm done with book #3 I'm sure I want to read the rest of the series as well! This series is kind of cruel which I love!

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On My WishList (#10)

 On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

                                            

The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab

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(Goodreads)

The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.

And there are no strangers in the town of Near.These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.
But when an actual stranger—a boy who seems to fade like smoke—appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.
The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him.
As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know—about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.
Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab’s debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won’t soon forget. 

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Random Thoughts

Just look at the cover it's creepy and I love creepy books!

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Before I go to sleep by S.J. Watson

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(Goodreads)

'As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ...' Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.

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Random Thoughts

I miss reading books that actually makes me scared and sleep with the lights on. And this looks like one of those books.

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A short list but it was all I could think of. What's on your list?

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