Or just simply freaking you out.
October has begun, and so does our new theme for the unofficial book club. We are going for anything horror/paranormal/thriller this time around, and it was in good timing that we recently acquired the Rage of The Fallen
The husband has just finished reading it too! Hopefully, when I have time, I can read another book in the same theme.
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Our August-September theme of Travel is over and done with, and I am already finished with The Time Cavern
When ten-year-old Aaron moved from the big city to the country, he thought it was a boring sleepy town. Then he met Jake, a know-it-all farm girl who said his house was haunted. She claimed an Amish boy disappeared without a trace after hearing the wind call his name. Aaron thought she was just trying to scare him…until the night he heard his own name in the wind.
It was interesting, fast-paced and kept me thinking. Especially what the Time Cavern was exactly. Being a book targetted for 10 year old boys, explaining things *I* already know was a bit of a drag for me. But hey, I need to remember I am not the target audience. Its strength though lies with it’s approach with the young protagonists, they are believable kids thrust into unusual instances.
I already had a small idea who the Amish are, and what they do, this book just helped me understand more of their religion and way of life. It was done with respect, and did not become preachy.
The tone is casual, and with the perspective of the children. Relatable and believable, hesitant but will still try anything to be able to satisfy his curiosity! Also, the farm kid teaching the new-in-town city kid how to use Google was really funny for me.
I really liked this book, and finding out that this is a start of a series, I’m looking forward for the next one. It may be for kids, but it is interesting enough for kids at heart like me. 
Considering the target audience and the story, I give it a 3 out of 5 stars [?]
Want to see the books my friends did for the theme? Chris made an awesome summary of our discussion.
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I just realized I had an error on the post “The Books so Far” post, under Beastly. It should be: “It’s not groundbreaking [...]” Already edited the post.
I’ve been brought out of my reading lull when my friends started to do an unofficial book club earlier this month. Unofficial, since it’s just a group of friends with a theme in mind. I think this would really help as friends tend to give you an indirect pressure to pick up a book and just read! Especially during this period where am I just going through the motions of working, housework and World of Warcraft— another recent obsession entirely.
This month’s theme is travel, be it fiction or non-fiction. Of course I went into the fiction category, since I’m not really keen on reading non-fiction books. I tried, I just never really got into it. I wanted to try a non-fiction one this time, but I realized the only thing that will actually make me read something it should be something I think I’d like.
So I searched for fiction travel books and found “Don Quixote”, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”… you know, the classics. I thought I’d finally pick up H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine”, when I found it was free via Amazon Kindle and downloaded it too. Then I saw The Time Cavern
So here’s hoping I get to succeed with this endeavor and just read more! Because, reading more books is always good. Will let you know once I finish and after we discuss it
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With a bit of prodding from Chris I thought I’d take up her advise and give a short round up of all the 7 books I’ve actually read so far. And since I haven’t been able to write so much about the books I’ve read, I’ll just share one or two thoughts on each.
Now, to actually get more reading done.
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