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CARRIE BY STEPHEN KING REVIEW

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Title: Carrie

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Horror, Contemporary Horror

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks

Publication Date: April 5th 1974

Pages: 253

Summary: Carrie White is no ordinary girl.

Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.

To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie – the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.

But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . .

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Lessons We Could Learn From Carrie White

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Our readalong of the Stephen King novel, Carrie, is now finished and we thought we would change it up this time around. Rather than updating daily how we feel about the book, we decided to do a “Lessons We Could Learn From…” post about the protagonist, Carrie White. Continue reading →

Halloween Read-Along

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Last year we hosted a Halloween read-along of Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. We updated you on our progress throughout the holiday and it felt like the perfect book to be read when the world started getting a little more creepy and cold as we approached Halloween. This year, we will be doing the exact same!

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April 2016 Wrap-Up

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Last month I had a very good reading month, and I wanted to continue that in April. Uni is starting to calm down as I approach my last few weeks as a student (yes, that’s right, last few weeks as a student) and it means that I have quite a bit more time to read. It also helps that over the last month I’ve read books that I’ve actually been obsessed with. In fact my new favourite contemporary novel has been read in April!

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