![]() Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. "Fair Extension," the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922." the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “So it’s been a very long (time) to get to the point where it's just out in the world. ![]() “The book was published eight years ago and I have wanted to make (the movie) since then,” Canosa said in a phone interview. Canosa told the Times he is excited to have audiences see how he and his cast and crew turned Cape Cod into Alice Island for this popular story of love, family and reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the people in the book look down on Ani and Weevil – they consider them to be beneath them. They live out in the country in a more primitive environment than their village counterparts. Headstrong Ani. Ani and Weevil are River People, who are considered a lower class in their society.The question is, why? What Fed My Addiction: ![]() They are sent off to a sort of prison camp for the sick – but it soon becomes apparent that the camp is not all about helping those with the disease – it’s about breaking them. The Scourge follows Ani and her best friend Weevil, who are caught to be tested for the Scourge – and Ani is surprised to discover that she actually tests positive for the disease that’s been spreading throughout her country. (See, I think it appeals to all ages!) The book is maybe a little overly sweet and easy in the end, but that’s the sort of ending my 12-year-old daughter still craves, so it’s perfect for her! I’m planning to pass this one to my daughter just as soon as my mom is done reading it. I actually think this is the type of book that both MG readers and younger YA readers would most definitely enjoy. Also, at first I thought this was a Young Adult book – the main characters seemed to fall into the young adult age category, but I’ve since found out that perhaps I was wrong. It takes place in a medieval-type fictional world but there aren’t any actual fantastical elements. A note about the genre: This is a non-magical fantasy. ![]() |