It’s been a long while since I’ve written about a book and that’s because it’s been that long since I’ve read a book. When I was younger, I read books all the time, probably three or so a week. Books were an expensive habit for me because, as I’ve told you, I’ve developed quite an aversion to libraries since I found a used tissue being used as a bookmark in a Nancy Drew book I checked out many years ago.
I know you’re thinking “Noooo, Rock Chick, please say that’s snot true!” I’m sorry, folks, it is. Yuck, but here’s one of my favorite little riddles to put you back in a good mood.
Q: Why did the Kleenex dance?
A: ‘Cause it had a little boogie in it.
Besides the boogers, do you know how hard it is to write a book? Hard! It’s a lot of work and I feel guilty if I don’t actually buy the book. The cost of a paperback is still one of the best entertainment values for your dollar that there is. My opinion, of course. I know there’s a lot of library fans out there.
Once I had my kids, I no longer had time to read books like I did before I had four babies in four years. Now, blogs and blogging capture a lot of my free time, but there are periods where I buy and read books like a madman for a month or two and then… just don’t. Lately, it was the “don’t” period until I cleaned out my closet on Sunday and found a copy of Dean Koontz’ “Tick Tock” hiding in there, unread and without any other book friends in there to keep it company.
I corrected that problem immediately in my patio lounge chair along with an iced tea. I know, I know, sitting out in the sun isn’t something people do anymore, but lately, everyone I know seems to be Vitamin D deficiency diagnosis. Not me, but then again, once in a while, I do enjoy impersonating a sunflower here and there.
Tick Tock
Tommy Phan, a novel writer himself, finds himself in a real life mystery/sci-fi thriller combo when he finds a rag doll on his front porch and curiously (doesn’t everyone know by now that it killed the cat?) brings it into his home. That act releases an evil entity hiding inside the rag doll whose sole mission seems to be to kill Tommy before the crack of dawn.
In my best Madonna impersonation I’m singing “Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock.”
Stories that involve monsters, demons, evil transforming spirits, vampires, wizards and other things along those lines don’t normally interest me, but the eccentric (and very funny!) characters and the crazy adventures Tommy finds himself in trying to stay alive throughout the night left me devouring page after page into the wee hours of the night.
This book was actually published in 1996. If you have a copy hiding in your closet, it’s time to get it out, plop down in your favorite chair and get busy. If you don’t, it’s time to go get your hands on a copy. C’mon, Tick Tock, people. This one’s a fun one!
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Whoot! Can’t wait to find a copy. For as soon as I finish my project.
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Aw man, I had forgotten about the tissue used as a bookmark story. Just for that, the next quiz will be all Billboard chart related… I know how you love those.
“Tick Tock” sounds like an intriguing premise. I may see if I can come across a copy at work someday. Speaking of horror fiction, I’m getting ready to read my first vampire tale… an “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter” short story by Laurell K. Hamilton.
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Yeah, I don’t like those much. The only way those questions could be worse would be if I had to write an essay describing the music video! LOL I think the characters in Tick Tock were what “made” the book. The story line is a little “out there”.
Not a huge Koontz fan because he dips into the supernatural so much. BUT… back somewhere in the late 80s or very early 90s, Teenage Rock Chick’s book collection was all I had available one night I was home alone with not much to do. Perusing the titles, all of them pretty gritty sounding, I picked up a true crime story called A Venom in the Blood. One of the sickest true crime stories ever. And I know this now because I got hooked – HOOKED – on the true crime ‘genre’ (hate that word, I do) right there and then. And Jess had shelves of them. More than the library even. With no risk of coming into contact with any snot rags or questionable smears…
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You dipped your toes into true crime with “A Venom In The Blood”? Wow. I had no idea! That was a great book, but yes, one of the more gruesomely detailed in my opinion. He died of cancer, but she’s been released.