The Adventures of a Constant Reader

                                  First, I want to apologize for skipping last week.   Things have been kind of crazy getting ready for Olivia to arrive.   We’re getting down to the wire, they’ll be inducing me in about three weeks!   I can’t believe how fast time is going right now!                 Anyway, what you’re really here for is a new book review.   This week I’m going to be reviewing the collection of short horror stories I finished up last week, Ghostly .   The book was edited by Audrey Niffenegger and contains 16 short ghost stories written by various authors.   There are a couple of stories that you see quite often in collections like these.   I feel like “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “The Beckoning Fair One” by Oliver Onions have been pretty widely read.   Most of the collection were by authors I haven’t heard of or stories by known authors that I haven’t read.   Since I read a lot, horror especially, when I pick up collections like this I typically

I finished The Death Cure over the weekend.   Overall, I’m happy to be finished with this series.   I know it was a popular series, but I just couldn’t find much to recommend about it.   The Death Cure does have more action than the previous two books in the series, but I just can’t get past the fact that they probably could have achieved the desired outcome in a much shorter time frame, with less torturing of children, if they’d have just used imaging machines to scan the brain patterns of the immunes and compared them to patterns in the brains of the infected.   Since I couldn’t get on board with the premise, I couldn’t get on board with the series.                   I also didn’t feel very connected to the main character.   Not only does he spend most of his time in the last two books either sleeping or passing out (it seemed like every chapter in The Scorch Trials ended with him passing out, I’m not even exaggerating), his personality is a little bland.   He’s made out to be

     I finished James Dashner's The Sorch Trials yesterday.  I think I liked this one a little better than the first book, but I'm still not loving this series.  My sister hated the movie based on this book, I'm not sure how I feel about that.  They really changed the events quite a bit when they made the movie and they almost seem like two completely different things to me.  It has been a couple of years since I've seen the movie so I won't debated the differences right now.      The plot in this series just isn't working for me right now.  *Spoiler - those of you who haven't read this book may want to skip to the last paragraph*. The whole point of putting the characters in this book through all the horrible things they've been subjected to is so that scientists can map their brains through their responses.  They are immune to the disease that's threatening to wipe out the human race and this brain mapping will apparently help find a cure.  This