I love that Penpal creeped you out considering all of the books that you read, because I love horror and don’t consider myself easily creeped out, but it definitely got to me 😬 I was so unsettled. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for like a solid month after finishing it, and still think about it really often! Some great recommendations as always 🖤
I loved The Devil All The Time. I really feel like it doesn't get talked about enough. Anytime anyone ask for me to recommend a book, that is the one I tell them about.
Omg I'm so glad you mentioned the short story Where Are You Going Where Have you Been by Joyce Carol Oates. I read that my sophomore year of high school and I have never forgot it...I find myself going back just to re-read it every few years-literally gives me goosebumps to this day!
I finished ‘The Silent Woods’ earlier this year and I cried so much too. It’s a pretty believable story too, so I think that is why it was so emotional.
Absolutely loved this! I got to add some new books to my TBR so thank you so much :-). I swear it is sooo entertaining to see you talk about the books you enjoy, hope there is a part 2 😄
BAILEY SCHOOL KIDS! I rarely run into people that also read them! Love it. I also was obsessed with them as a kid pre-Goosebumps as well. Thanks for this video. Just added a bunch of books to my TBR
Yeees! A new video which means 24 minutes and 10 seconds of putting responsibilities on hold! Thank you :) Edit: Okay I watched it now and of course I want a second part. None of my questions have been answered :D
I really need a re read of Summer of night, I read it a long time ago. I only remember that i absolutely loved it! Fun video Anda, you always keep it fresh! ❤️
My partner and I just picked up "His Pain" by Wrath James White, we got to meet him and he's so frickin awesome, he shook hands with one of the monsters of monster world and they can't stop bragging to the other monsters 😊 thank you for discussing his work, it's so good!
Oh my goodness! I grew up with Kimi Cunningham Grant in a little town in Appalachian Pennsylvania. My head could not have snapped around faster when you mentioned her name if I were in the Exorcist. Love seeing this shoutout.
I LOVE YOUR SHIRT! I have to edit this comment, having now watched the video, to say that it's really cool that you admitted that you're jealous of other people who you view as more successful and how you feel bad for not being able to get your shit together and write a book. That was nice. But like. I need you to know. To me, you've always seemed really cool and like you have your shit together and like... you're my version of that sort of, "Aww, man! Why can't I have my shit together like that?" person. So like, you're doing better than you think you are.
On the subject of books that shouldn't be uplifting but are, I recommend Stirring the Sheets by Chad Lutzke. It's a surprisingly wholesome and moving novella about a funeral home worker who ends up stealing a body that reminds him of his late wife.
Loved to know if you have a few very special books that you have gone back and reread due to your love of the material. For me it will always be the Dark Tower series by SK. Can jump in anytime, and be back riding along with the ka tet.
Did you ever read The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley? It was made into the movie The Devils in the early '70s with Oliver Reed as the main character. It's always messed with my head a bit because Fr. Urbain Grandier's fate was so horrific, but I find it hard to deny that he did a lot to bring it on himself.
That's weird about your English course, because Roberto Bolaño is from Chile and wrote in Spanish. In general, horror stories written in Mexico and South America are not considered horror stories because they are 9 out of 10 times included in collections of non-horror stories. A respected writer as Roberto Bolaño, who is considered a serious writer, when he writes a fantasy or a horror story, it will not be considered that because if snobs like something, then it must be serious and not genre literature. It's all bullshit, of course, but that's how academies think.
Do you have published works available? I am not being sarcastic or anything like that, I would really like to know if you do and if so, where can I find them?
There was a book set in Hammer Studios with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and others 'guesting', about a script writer who has been hired to write a movie script (which in the end wasn't made, too expensive) can't remember author or title tho.
Could you recommend books like "plastic monsters" by Daniel J Volte, Because i read it and wanted there to be more. I enjoy that it was about an aspect of women hood, and the relationship between the leads being discibed as kindered spirits. Not friends or lovers really, just kindered spirits with a comon fucked up goal.
