![]() ![]() Jurassic Park gave the impression of being a book for smart people, filled as it was with long sections of research into genetics and paleontology and chaos theory, and when I was eleven that made it seem like a real grown-up book. I also devoured most of Crichton’s other books over the next year, though only Congo made enough of an impression on me that I can recall much of the story two decades later. When the movie came out, I even painted a Matchbox car to match the iconic Ford Explorers used in the film. I remember making a scale model of the park using poster board, Legos, and little plastic dinosaurs. I loved the book and must have read it three or four times before Steven Spielberg’s movie adaptation was released the following summer. Sometime during the summer of 1992, when I was eleven years old, I bought a paperback copy of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, which had been released at the end of 1990. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Holeby Hye-Young PyunĪ South Korean bestseller and winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, The Hole tells the tale of a man who wakes from a coma after a horrific car accident that killed his wife and left him paralyzed and disfigured. A stand out and original tale on the horrors of gendered violence. Our protagonist grows increasingly frantic as he fails to satisfy the strange intruders’ harassment to the point where his own sanity begins to crack. An unnamed narrator’s home is invaded in the middle of a storm as two mysterious intruders proceed to question the host’s identity. The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera GarzaĪ powerful Gothic tale that strikes at the heart of male-female binary issues. The revelations are beyond disturbing and if you’d ever told me that someone could make a baby blanket frightening, well, then welcome to the world of Kealan Patrick Burke. The amount of grief, despair, and dread Burke manages to cram into 79 pages is a feat in its own right as we follow the tale of a father coping with his recently deceased infant daughter. A quick and biting read from one of my favorite contemporary horror authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poe is the executor of their parents' estate, and their parents left behind an enormous fortune that will only pass to the children when Violet comes of age. Poe tells them that they'll stay with him for a few days until he can get things sorted out for them. It seems they died in a terrible fire that burned down their whole house. Poe has some horrible news: The children's parents are dead. ![]() Poe, a banker who constantly coughs and is friends with the Baudelaire family. Turns out, this weird person is just Mr.Sunny-who is just a baby-likes to bite things… and she also notices a mysterious figure coming toward the children on the beach.Klaus, who is twelve, is thinking about some of the books he's read while checking out creatures in a tide-pool.Violet, who is fourteen years old, is skipping rocks and dreaming of things she might invent one day.It all starts one overcast day when the kids are hanging out at Briny Beach.That's probably because a whole bunch of downer things happen to the three Baudelaire children-Violet, Klaus, and Sunny.This tale opens with a disclaimer: If you like sweet and pleasant stories with happy endings, then you'd be better off reading some other book, since this one is kind of a downer. ![]() ![]() ![]() I got a copy of this book last year for my birthday as a surprise gift from my incredibly sweet friend Destiny, who chose it for me from my Amazon wishlist. I’m just going to go out on a limb and say this now: RULES FOR VANISHING is going to be one of my Top Favorite Reads of 2020, there’s no doubt in my mind. The road is rarely forgiving, and no one will be the same on the other side. ![]() Together, they will have to draw on all of their strengths to survive. And even though she’s hardly spoken with them for a year, Sara finds herself deep in the darkness of the forest, her friends–and their cameras–following her down the path. ![]() When a mysterious text message invites Sara and her estranged friends to “play the game” and find local ghost legend Lucy Gallows, Sara is sure this is the only way to find Becca–before she’s lost forever. With her sister gone, Sara doesn’t know whether her former friends no longer like her…or are scared of her, and the days of eating alone at lunch have started to blend together. It’s been exactly one year since Sara’s sister, Becca, disappeared, and high school life has far from settled back to normal. Who is brave enough to find her–and who won’t make it out of the woods? ![]() Once a year, the path appears in the forest and Lucy Gallows beckons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes, The Absolute Sandman Vol. Now, DC Comics is proud to present this comics classic in an all-new Absolute Edition format. ![]() By the time it concluded in 1996, it had made significant contributions to the artistic maturity of comic books and become a pop culture phenomenon in its own right. The Sandman, written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman, was the most acclaimed comic book title of the 1990s.Ī rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, The Sandman is also widely considered one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age. ![]() |