Wow, is it really possible this is year eleven? And I have read along each and every time from the very beginning. Granted some years have been more loosely RIP-ing than others, but as I am a great fan of ghost stories I have read at least a novel or two and some short stories. At first I thought I would just read "a" book and call it good, but when I started looking at my shelves all of a sudden all these potential reads just leapt out at me from their piles and shelves. Really, leapt. Okay, maybe just figuratively. And being such an enthusiastic "starter of books" (ahem) I have now got a whole list of reading possibilities!
So, here we go, thanks very much to Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings for organizing another wonderful opportunity for some seasonal (Autumn being my very favorite season by the way) readings. So, here we go . . . R.I.P. XI! (and thanks too Hugo Award winning artist Abigail Larson for the use of her art).
My pile of books to choose from in September and Octorber, so far, consists of:
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Girl in the Photograph by Kate Riordan -- I have actually jumped right in and have started reading this one!
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson (or one of her other books as yet unread on my shelves--there are two or three)
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood -- I am waiting for a library copy of this!
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham -- I am forever telling myself it is time to start a new classic . . . this would, of course, be perfect
Daphne by Justine Picardie
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier (or another of her books) -- This could be read in conjunction with Justine Picardie's novel. I do love reading pairs.
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith (or another of her books)
The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson -- Another book to pair up with a novel by Highsmith
The Widow by Georges Simenon
For short stories I have A.C. Moyer's All Sleep, which consists of four novella-length stories
I'm reading Anthony Quinn's Curtain Call and Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen at the moment, too, both of which would fit in nicely with suspenseful type stories.
Will you be reading along, too? Any book choices made yet? I am hoping to (finally) start making the blog rounds again--I know I have been absent from the book blogosphere lately. I also owe a number of people emails, and postcards. And I have read your comments and will be replying to those as well. Thank goodness for the upcoming long weekend!
Happy (spooky or otherwise) reading everyone!