Is That A Brick In Your Hand Or Are you Just Happy To See Me? Five Books I Will Soon Read That Are 500+ Pages VIA @LiteracyBatman

Well here is a whopping challenge!
ALSO…it was actually quite difficult finding 5 books that actually hit 500 pages despite looking thick….

Thanks for the prompt from Novel Lives (link to original post at the foot of the page), I am not only failing at a Saturday posting,but also at reading big books (I like a chunky, wrist aching weight in my hand and cannot lie). They fill your TBR stacks so quickly that I think this year I have had an irrational fear of the big doorstop novel!

I raided my tbr pile because A) I am broke so no book buying atm and B) I need to get that pile looking more streamlined…there are ones which I started months ago, and then was distracted and never finished.

This looks like a great opportunity to get two birds with one stone!
Result!

It just might work…

• Book 1- ‘Koko’ by Peter Straub 634 pages.(1998)The first in the ‘Blue Rose’ trilogy involves the reconnecting of 4 Vietnam vets at the unveiling of a memorial in Washington. Flipping back and forth between their war time experiences and now, they find themselves honouring a past promise and hunting down a serial killer who leaves a single sinister calling card, one only recognisable by the members of their unit. And a code name, ‘Koko’. It is haunting, horrific and memorable by leaving a lasting impression of fear. It has been easily 2 decades since I borrowed this book and the weird thing is, since the library has gone to electrinic record keeping, I thought that the cardboard slot on the inside cover would’ve been gone by now. Guess what? It was still there and who was the last person to borrow it, in 1991? Shivers…

• Book 2-‘Boy’s Life’ by Robert R McCammon 625 pages (1991)My most tragic purchase on the internet this year arrived with 8 pages missing! 8!!! So I am starting on page 9 of this 1960’s, US set tale of grwoing up, childhood innocence and monsters. The cover gives me major ‘Stranger Things’ vibes and I am super excited to get stuck into this vintage horror classic.

• Book 3-‘A Clash Of Kings’ by George RR Martin784 pages (1998)I honestly do not know why it is taking me so long to get through this book! Nearly 9 months after I planned to read through all the GOT books I am still stuck on Book 2! Hoping this is the kick up the butt to carry on with the Westerosi set sage. Book 1 ended with placing all the major players on the board whilst Book 2 is setting up who is the real and actual ruler of the 7 kingdoms. Stannis and Renly Baratheon,Robb Stark, Joffrey Lannister all have quasi-legitmate claims but so does rank outsider, a little known player named Danaerys may be a better ruler than any of these men put together…

• Book 4-‘The Tommyknockers’ by Stephen King 693 pages (1987)Another King that I hold warm affection for, unlike the majority of Constant Readers, this is a book from back in the 80’s and his firestorm publishing year. 4 books by King were released in 1987-‘Misery’, ‘The Eyes Of The Dragon’,the mass market second volume of ‘The Dark Tower’ called ‘The Drawing Of The Three’ and finally, ‘The Tommyknockers’. Legend has it that it was written in a blind heat during the worst of King’s addiction periods and he has no recollection of the process at all, but the tale of Bobbi Anderson, her beagle Pete and what they find in the woods behind her house, lingers in the memory more than a decade after I last read it.

• Book 5-‘Watermelon’ by Marian Keyes  520 pages (1995)Book 1 in the Walsh Family series,long overdue a re-read, this is the tale of Clare. Pregnant, dumped and having to move back from glamorous London, to her mixed bag of a family in Ireland, her journey to self discovery is a tear inducing and life affirming read.. I defy anyone to eat a Magnum without thinking of Marian Keyes after reading this book!

Do you like big books?

Do they scare you?

Do you fancy joining in and talking about thick tomes stacked by your bedside?

Drop me a line and let me know!

Links-https://novellives.com/2019/09/22/is-that-a-brick-in-your-hand-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me-five-books-i-will-soon-read-that-are-500-pages-top-5-saturday-errrr-sunday/