Scribblings

In the Dark Room

I think this is one of Peter Straub's best books! I had trouble putting it down. Although it is a sequel to lost boy lost girl, it's also a stand alone. You don't need to read the earlier book unless you want to. I did read the books in sequence and honestly, that did help in the beginning. I clearly understood some of the settings and the character descriptions. I didn't really get into the book until almost half way through.

I was a little put off in the beginning, wondering why there were two main voices and what they had to do with each other. Maybe they overlapped because they'd both lost loved ones? I figured they had to meet at some point or else why write about them both?

The big twist comes in the middle, at the point where I got hooked. I'm not going to give away any details of the book in case someone would like to read it. What I will say, though, is that Straub did a superb job of messing with my mind and I'm hoping there might be yet another book from the storyline.

In The Dark Room is most definitely on my recommend list!

Ten on Tuesday:

10 stupid things you did as a kid

1) Wanted to see what would happen if I stuck my used gum on my new white Easter gloves ... it wasn't pretty
2) Told a racist joke I overheard (but didn't understand) to a room full of relatives--I was about 8
3) Wanted to see what would happen if I put a paper napkin on an electric burner ... gee, it makes a fire!
4) Walked away from the new school and went home because I wanted to go back to NY
5) If I put my kitty's head in a milk crate, would it get stuck? Uh oh!
6) made crank calls with other coda friends while our parents played cards
7) drove my sled into a telephone pole -- what was I thinking?
8) Rode down the hilly alleyways of Baltimore standing up and on one side of my bicycle ... luckily I never fell off
9) Shaved the hair on my arms
10) hit a kid in art class