Ti | Book Chatter

Happy Sunday to you. My week has been wrought with challenges. My work was gracious enough to provide me with a beautiful MacBook a few years ago. I love my MacBook. A lot. However, this week they had me upgrade the operating system so that I could document a process for the folks here on campus. It did not go well.

My computer imploded.

I’m not sure what happened, but it’s FRIED. I sent it off to the repair facility. I hope they can get it back to me quickly or better yet replace the darn thing but the budget is tight here in the state of California so if it’s toast, my posting may be too.

Honestly though, I really need to get my own but with furloughs and all, money has been tight. It’s hard to justify an expensive piece of equipment like that. Needless to say, I have to do most of my posting at work, or from my phone and that’s just not feasible for my poor eyesight. Tiny screen + bad eyes = migraine.

I did manage to post three reviews through all of these issues: Catching Fire (fun book), What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (loved it) and The Weight of Heaven (loved it).

I plan to spend the entire day reading. What’s on deck, you ask?

If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
Beatrice and Virgin by Yann Martel
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson (although I promised someone I would read this with him and he’ll kick my butt if I open it before he gets his copy. Although I did read the first page. Shhhh. Don’t tell.)

How are you spending your day?

A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading.

Here’s the blurb from the publisher:

The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body—and the shattered souls of all who were present.

Years later, one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife and to his friends by writing a book about this horrible night, and it’s through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every one of them through their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past, they find themselves face-to-face with the evil triggered so many years earlier. Unfolding through the individual stories of the fated group’s members, A Dark Matter is an electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel that will satisfy Peter Straub’s many ardent fans, and win him legions more.

I don’t step outside of my literary fiction box too often but every now and then I do. This one looks like a real page-turner. I haven’t read a Straub book in ages. Perhaps I should give this one a shot. Has anyone read it?

Chatting with friends about books and life…