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Rose Madder

“It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.” Author: Stephen King After 14 years of marriage – of beatings, of blood, of miscarriages and abuse – Rose Daniels finally comes to her senses and walks out of her house, never to return. It isn’t planned, this moment of bravery. She leaves only with the clothes on her back and her husband’s bank card, which she uses to get a ticket out of town and then throws away. Rose is done with Norman Daniels, with his escalating rages, his biting, his fists, and the promise of death [...]

2025-05-10T09:25:58-07:00May 10th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

From a Buick 8

A Car, A Mystery, A Dark Legacy Author: Stephen King An odd man brings an old car into a gas station, asks for a fill-up, and disappears. The car sits there with a new tank of gas and no owner until the members of Troop D from the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania arrive to impound it. What they discover is unutterable, horrible, beautiful, and inexplicable, all in one. A mystery that will keep on taking for decades. The car – a beautiful Buick 8 – isn’t quite right. It’s a near perfect mimic of a car, but there [...]

2023-02-13T20:50:54-07:00February 13th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Joyland

Coming of Age and Killers Author: Stephen King Devin Jones is having a strange summer. It’s half magical, and half deadly. His long-time girlfriend has recently dumped him, and now that he is growing up, still a virgin, he is experiencing his first heartache. Everywhere at the college reminds him of the girl who left, and so this summer, instead of working at the college, he goes to a small-town amusement park in North Carolina, named Joyland, to get away from it all. He is seeking isolation, but what he finds is a strange kind of magic. Some of it is [...]

2022-09-17T21:03:10-07:00September 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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