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Stephen King & Richard Chizmar – Gwendy’s Button Box Trilogy Reading Order

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<— I ABSOLUTELY LOVED book #1 and now it’s a trilogy. YAY ME!!!! Holy moly what an intriguing, creepy story that had me on the edge of my seat. You bet I will be reading the rest. P.S. Here’s my Book Review of Gwendy’s Button Box.

About book #1:

Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock.

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong—if time-rusted—iron bolts and zig-zag up the precarious cliffside. read more

Reader Question… Solved! The book about the prisoner in a tower that steals one thread from a napkin each day to make a rope…

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Oh my sister is looking for a book title too. Perfect timing since she’s coming to see my for the holidays, and maybe we’ll have the answer for her and we can buddy read it.

This is for all of your Stephen King fans (which I am) however I do not know this one, and now I know why. It’s under a pen name!!! 🙂

She asks:

It is a book about a kingdom that Stephen King wrote but under another name.

Someone is prisoner in a tower and asks for his tiny play house because he knows that it has a tiny (sewing machine or spinning wheel???) That he uses to make a rope by stealing ONE thread of linen from the napkin they supply with each meal. read more

Book Review – Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar

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Gwendy’s Button Box
It’s creepy. It’s magnificent. And for me, it’s an easy 5 stars for just having sucked me in right from the very start, and having never let me go. I didn’t put it down (at least… not by choice). 😉

Sure, it’s a shorter read, but I honestly felt like this story was complete (mind you, I’d love some sequels… there’s much story potential here).

And personally, if I were you, I’d stop reading this review right now, and JUMP IN to this eerie story, and escape for awhile. 😉 Go in as blind as you can. Trust me. It’s worth it, even if you’re not a horror (or scary story fan). This one is so much more than that. read more

Stephen King – The Bill Hodges Trilogy Reading Order

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I know this isn’t a romance series, but y’all know my love for creepy stuff too, and I couldn’t help but post this trilogy now that it’s complete. The reviews are awesome, and considering this is Stephen King (tried-and-true for us horror freaks), I think this one is a no-brainer if you’re in the mood to lose yourself in some scary!

About book #1

The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels… read more

Reader Favorites – Johanne’s Top Favorite Stephen King Books List:

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Me and my sister! She loves to read, too!! 😀

My sister is an AVID reader too!! In fact, SHE is the one that introduced me to the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (but she read them in FRENCH!! She’s from Quebec, Canada), and I knew… we were kindred reading spirits, as WELL as sisters! And since she’s spending her October vacation with me at my place, she’s feeling in the Halloween spirit and had a few of her own “reader favorites” she wanted to recommend. 😀

But she’s narrowed it down to a particular author! THE wonderful, creeptastic, Stephen King!! P.S. She’s 100% bilingual but some of them, she was describing to me in french, so I translated (and typed) as she spoke. 😀 read more