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Wordy Words on Words
You know what? Let’s go back to the beginning. To Fear Street #1.

I keep getting thrown with the Columbo/Law & Order: CI openings where a crime is committed by SOMEONE and then the story actually starts, but it’s fine. I like Columbo and I LOVED CI.

I will say that a common critique you’re going to hear from me is a plot driven by poor communication. It’s a pet peeve of mine and just lazy writing. It’s also all OVER the Fear Street series.

Anyway, this book centers around a kid in high school who falls in love with the new girl, Anna. It IS a little strange that none of his friends know who she is, has her in their classes, and everyone that DOES know Anna insists that Anna…

Is dead.

I looked this up on Wikipedia to make sure I remembered the plot since I read this a couple years ago and it says that the boyfriend was convinced she was alive with her “human-like kisses.”

I literally laughed out loud.

Anyway, it turns out “Anna” isn’t Anna at ALL and she’s actually WILLA, Anna’s sister who killed Anna out of jealousy and assumed her identity. There’s a brother, Brad, and he plays a pretty important role. He shoved a girl down some stairs and I think he even killed a cat to stuff in a locker as a warning, but I don’t care about him.

My mind got snagged HARD on the idea that a teenage girl killed her teenage girl sister and just ADOPTED her personality. Where were her parents? Where was Brad? Why had nobody heard of Anna? Why is Willa going to school?

I just think that if you’re going to murder a sibling and assume their identity, high school years are the WORST years to do it.

That said, it was fun to re-read and still way better than Goosebumps.

I’m excited for the next one.

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Wordy Words on Words
I’m calling it: this is my favorite Goosebumps book of all time.

I can say this with confidence since I’m reposting all of these from IG until I catch up to where I’m at now in my reading. I’ve read the rest. This is my favorite.

The story centers on a young writer banging out stories on a magic typewriter and I can tell you why I liked this so much:

1) I love typewriters. Always have. I have three now and need two more before I call my little collection complete (a Hermes 2000, perhaps with a German keyboard so I can keep practicing my Deutsch and an Olivetti because that’s what “Richard Bachman” used). The steady click clack sounds cool to me and when I’m writing, the tactile feels and loud sounds are inspiring. I want to hear more and to do that I have to write more.

2) I was absolutely that kid. Not with a typewriter - my parents hopped on the computer train pretty early - but writing. I wrote ALL the time. I still write. I’m working on a second-chance romance right now and it will be my fourth book. I don’t publish them - they’re just fun to write and I’ve been doing this since I was nine or so.

So this book could have done anything and I would have still been onboard with it. As it is, the magic typewriter makes everything the kid writes actually happen and hijinks definitely ensue. It’s a fun, fast-paced story and once it gets rolling, it gets pretty exciting.

Out of the whole series, this is the one I want a hard copy of the most.

Also, if you’re looking for an affordable, reliable, fairly indestructible typewriter, look for a mid-1950s Silent Super from Smith Corona. I’ve dragged mine around the world in my checked luggage (in its case) and it’s fine. Can’t recommend it enough.

If you’re more into apps, check out Hanx Writer for simulated typewriter typeface and sound goodness.

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Wordy Words on Words
I cannot put into words my dread at knowing I would need to eventually read this book. The cover and title are memorable and I remember thinking “ugh, so that’s Goosebumps now, eh?” as a kid.

I wasn’t stoked.

But then I read it and yeah, it’s just as dumb as you think it would be. A girl is slowly turning into a chicken after upsetting the neighborhood witch.

The only entertaining thing about it is that RL Stine has often been called a reader’s stepping stone (one place called him a training bra which is just hilarious) to Stephen King and I don’t think either party liked that. It’s very dismissive of Stine’s work and King had a character call Goosebumps dumb in “Fairy Tale.”

And THIS book is Stine actually taking a swing at being “inspired” by a King book and reworking it to be a Goosebumps book.

The King book? Thinner.

So does that make this fanfic? Or is there a better term? Perhaps a more nefarious term? Because as it stands right now it feels like parody more than anything else. If Mad Magazine took on Thinner, it would probably be this book.

So it’s entertaining to see Stine try to boil down a full-length novel about racism, classism, the justice system, and a failing marriage into a children’s book.

Obviously it’s not going to be a success but damn it, I enjoyed seeing him try.

When King’s Under the Dome came out, it really freaked me out. Not the story, but the fact that so many people lost their minds and followed a madman just because he had charisma. He was able to whip up a crowd and it led to horrible results that I could (now can) absolutely see happening. It freaked me out so badly I stopped reading King for a long time with the exception of Elevation.

Until I read this book and thought “Thinner was so much better than this. I should re-read that.”

So there are TWO good things about this book!

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Wordy Words on Words
It’s fine.

It’s actually got a pretty decent story to it where a local haunted house, Hill House (not to be confused with THE Hill House), is constantly toured by two little pranksters. The tour guide tells the tale of how the house was built by a seaman who led this side there and, after he never came back, she ran away. Then his ghost appeared, roaming the halls with a light looking for her.

Pretty cool.

Then a boy accidentally finds where the ghost is hiding (ghosts just hide places. What did you think they did? DISAPPEAR?) and told him now HE can’t leave, rips the kid’s head off (not gory, he just REMOVES the head like a toy crash test dummy) and hides it.

Then the seaman leaves.

Which is hilarious.

Anyway, is the ghost of the kid roams the house.

A new kid tells them he’s seen the ghosts and convinces them to join him there at night where he confesses that he is the headless ghost. He’s been borrowing this head (as one does) and needs to return it, which is just good manners. But now he wants the boy prankster’s head!

The kids flee, stumble into hidden rooms or whatever and find the ACTUAL head. Then the ghost appears, reunited with the head, and fades away.

Weird that the headless ghost wasn’t just hiding somewhere.

Anyway, turns out this new kid is the tour guide’s nephew and they all leave.

Decent story.

But then Stine fucked it up because he just COULD NOT resist.

WEEKS go by and the kids take one last tour only to find cops waiting for them outside asking what they were doing. They said taking the tour.

“But it went out of business MONTHS ago. You must have been getting tours from ghosts!”

And, sure enough, the tour guide and his wife are in the window, ghosts.

Pretty sure those chunks of time need to be reversed to make any sense since other people were on these tours.

Or he could have just stopped when it made sense!

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Taylor Drew

Managed to write my December reading log using my mother's laptop instead of waiting until I'm back in Tokyo next week, which is great. It was a bit of a weird month because I had to prepare to come to Canada and be here, but there were some real gems. And as always, I can't say no to more Murderbot!

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Taylor Drew - Japanese to English Translatordecember 2024 readsThis is an interesting entry because instead of sitting at home and relaxing over the new year, I typed this entry sitting at my mother's kitchen table in ru...
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Taylor Drew :tokyo:

Spent my morning typing up my #ReadingLog for November. I personally had a generally not great month, but a bunch of mostly stunning books basically made up for it. November ended up being a month of queer love and SFF for the most part, often both at the same time, and I'm very here for that trend.

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Taylor Drew - Japanese to English Translatornovember 2024 readsI spent a lot of November being generally unwell, both because of actual illness and high levels of stress relating to the upcoming end of year. I think this...
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Jesse Skinner

Picked up Blue Skies by T. C. Boyle today, about Floridians in the future adapting to "the "new normal" in which once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters happen once a week." Seems highly relevant at the moment.

I've read a couple other books by him and really enjoyed them, so I'm looking forward to digging into this one.

The cover of Blue Skies by T. C. Boyle, a palm tree in front of a ball of flame against a blue sky.
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Jesse Skinner

Just finished Neuromancer, my first time reading William Gibson. Difficult but worth it. Wow. Amazing and prophetic, so many things written in 1984 that have become relatable today. The world he creates is so massive and complex. Curious about the sequels, but I think I'll read something lighter in the interim.

Cover of Neuromancer by William Gibson
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Taylor Drew :tokyo:

Well, it took approximately an hour longer than I thought it would, but my first attempt at a reading log is finally done and up on my blog! Even though there aren't comments there, I hope posting these can help create some more dialogue between me and other readers!

I think the format could use a little more work, especially since I hope I'll be able to post the occasional review at some point, but for now, this is enough.

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Taylor Drewseptember 2024 readsSeptember was a whirlwind of a month for a lot of different reasons. I continue to take on treating my plethora of autoimmune disease symptoms and work this ...
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