Been reading a little bit more lately. Nothing award winning or anything, mostly just quick reads. Got back into Mr. King a little bit, and other books that have good pace and short chapters (I grab these books b/c they are easier to get through as the kids run around, while I cook, etc.. ).
There is a library I go to once a month for their book sales. Just happen to show up last Saturday and they were having a sale where anything you can put in a paper grocery bag was $3 for the whole bag of books. Usually get the trade paperbacks since they are easy to tote around, and I think I loaded around 30 of them into the bag. Got several from King (Under the Dome, Lisey's Story, Dark Tower 3, Different Seasons, Misery, Bachman Books) got a few Crichton (Next, Congo, and a couple others), a couple McCammon (Boy's Life, Speaks the Nightbird, Swan Song), a couple from Simmons (Summer of Night, The Terror), and just a mix of suspense/mystery/sci-fi.
Started off reading Misery. I read it when it first came out, but didn't remember a ton about it besides the basics. The book was a lot better than I remembered it. Just nuts what goes on, and I loved the reveal with Annie's scrapbook. I didn't remember anything about her past at all. I did remember being bored with the book-within-a-book thing back in the day, and that was about as bad as I remembered it. I struggled to get through that, especially when I got harder and harder to read with the missing letters. Still great overall, and you can tell it was written as he was struggling with his addictions and demons too.
Next I read Rage from the Bachman books. Again, I had read it back in the day, remembered the basic premise, and knew that it was taken out of print for it's association with shootings. This one was pretty damn bad. I have 0 problem with the basic idea of a school shooting, but it was just making me cringe how King was seemingly treating the kid as a hero and it was some kind of cleansing therapy session for the kids in the room. Just odd that the one voice in the story that was reminding people that he was crazy and has murdered people was the one that was seemingly turned into the villain.
Also breezed through Congo, which I thought was OK but a tad cheesy. There is still nuggets of stuff in there that I loved and was a reason I dug reading Crichton to begin with, so I still enjoyed it overall.
Now I think it might be back to King for Dark Tower 3, but we will see.