Week Two of the Winter Wishlist Blog Hop!This week is about posting what I would love to give during the holiday season. So this is kind of like my monthly recommendations, in a way. This is going to include books and bookish things :) There are so many awesome recommendations out there - so please check out the other blogs that are participating in this hop!! Here we go!
The Books
The Child Thief - YOU MUST READ THIS. I can't believe I forgot about it until now. Brom's version of Peter Pan is not only fantastically mischievous and a little evil, but our main character is a problem child of his own. This version of Peter Pan is more twisted than what you get from Disney, and it's so well written. Beautiful words, characters, and voices. Really, I cannot say enough about how much I love this book. Seriously, put it on your wish list - now. (Maybe I should do a giveaway of this book at some point - ooohh boy). [As Read Now, Sleep Later points out: This is a very dark book - you probably shouldn't read this if you are squeamish or don't like dark books]
What Dreams May Come - Yes, I know it was a sappy cheesefest of a movie (but honestly, I love Robin Williams), but the book is something else. While the movie only scratches the surface, the book dives into philosophical topics of what afterlife is like. Matheson did his homework - he took a little bit from every kind of religion out there, and interviews from people who were clinically dead before coming back. And he mushed it all together. I love this book. It's a good story, regardless of what you believe religiously or otherwise.
The Vanishing - Here I am being a creeper again. This book is about a man who finds his wife's kidnapper. She disappeared without a trace. And the ending... *shudders* For a good, short, creepfest, you should read it. Great character development, great plot, overall... love.
Bookish Things
These might be more writer things, and I might be doing a bit of a shameless plug in promoting them (I designed them) but I still think they are great gifts. (I bought some for myself for Christmas, and we might buy them for someone else we know for a birthday - shh!)
If you don't know what "I'm on a horse!" is from, you can look at the comic strip for NaNoWriMo:
Yes!! I loved The Child Thief. It was a bit brutal for one of our book group members; I recommended Tigerheart by Peter David instead. Both are really great Peter Pan tales.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the list! Happy giving :D
@Read Now Sleep Later - I'm putting that on my goodreads "to read" list. I loved the darkness that was in Brom's version - but yes, I can totally understand how it would be too much for some people ^_^ I'm really desensitized, so it's good that this comes with a bit of a warning, heh.
ReplyDeletei have never heard of the child thief. sounds creepy!
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