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Jan. 2nd, 2021 06:59 pmI just finished reading Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. About which two things:
1) Y'know how sometimes you finish reading a book you loved and are immediately seized with the very particular sadness of knowing you can never read it for the first time again? That's where I am right now. After being at least vaguely disappointed by basically every horror novel I read in 2020, it's wonderful to start out this year with a book that was exactly everything I wanted it to be. I need to buy myself a copy.
2) I find the discussion questions for book groups that are occasionally included in books irritating at the best of times, as I feel compelled to read them and they're nearly always bad but there is something especially infuriating at getting to the end of a perfect beautiful ghost story to find that one of the discussion questions is "was the haunting real?" That's just - it's the least interesting or important way to talk about a ghost story, please stop.
1) Y'know how sometimes you finish reading a book you loved and are immediately seized with the very particular sadness of knowing you can never read it for the first time again? That's where I am right now. After being at least vaguely disappointed by basically every horror novel I read in 2020, it's wonderful to start out this year with a book that was exactly everything I wanted it to be. I need to buy myself a copy.
2) I find the discussion questions for book groups that are occasionally included in books irritating at the best of times, as I feel compelled to read them and they're nearly always bad but there is something especially infuriating at getting to the end of a perfect beautiful ghost story to find that one of the discussion questions is "was the haunting real?" That's just - it's the least interesting or important way to talk about a ghost story, please stop.
