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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge; Books I Love That Became Films or TV Shows

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It's Wednesday and perhaps it's time for another Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge post courtesy of  Long and Short Reviews  and today's theme is books I love that became films or TV shows. As I'm mainly focusing on horror and paranormal on this blog, it's obvious I'll mention some spooky and spine chilling books and movies, but that's not to say there's book to movie adaptions of books in other genres I dislike (yeah, I'm team Colin Firth when it comes to Pride and Prejudice). When it comes to spooky stuff, some book to movie adaptions includes Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ring by Koji Suzuki, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (the only movie I enjoyed Tom Cruise as I find the bloke creepy AF), and of course The Exorcist by Wiliam Peter Blatty. Speaking of The Exorcist, if anyone else is into spooky stuff and alleged c...

Top Ten Tuesday; Books By Authors Who Live in Norway

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It's Tuesday, which means it's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl  and the theme of the week was books by authors who live in my state/country. As I live in Norway, that's what I'm focusing on, and as there's few horror/paranormal authors in Norway, I decided to write a list with a mix of genres, so there's something for "everyone". Here's my ten picks. I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjørk Description from Goodreads When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads ‘I’m travelling alone’. In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must track down his former partner, Mia Krüger – a brilliant but troubled detective – who has retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill herself. Reviewing the file, Mia finds something new – a ...

Book Tag; I Love Spring Tag

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I came across the I Love Spring Tag over at  Alli The Book Giraffe  and I decided to play along as it looked like a fun tag. How is spring where you live? I live in Norway, so it's always a bit of guessing how the weather will be. Sometimes we even get all four seasons within 24 hours, so there's plenty of surprises to say it the least. Most anticipated book release this spring? I'm really looking forward to The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates as I've read the other books in the Gravekeeper series. Show us a book cover that reminds you of spring. Lace and Lies by Nancy Warren somehow remind me a bit of spring. Where are you going to read this spring? I'll be reading at home this spring, and I'll might bring a book out in the garden, if the weather permits. Find a cover with the sun on it I struggled a little bit, but you can just spot the sun on the cover of The Stranger in the Library by Eva Gates What are your favorite spring reads? I'm honestly a bit of a ...

Let's Talk Bookish; Bookish Fandoms

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It's Friday, which means it's probably time for a new Let's Talk Bookish post courtesy of  Book Nook Bits  and  Dinipanda Reads , and today's topic is bookish fandoms. Here's the further prompts for today's discussion. There are very popular bookish fandoms out there, especially in the romance fantasy genre (Maas, Yarros, LOTR, etc.). Are you part of a bookish fandom? If you are, what do you love about it? If not, do you think you’d ever want to be part of one? Does being part of the online book community help you connect to fandoms? If I'm in anything remotely close to a bookish fandom, it's probably Bram Stoker's Dracula, and/or horror in general. There's a great horror group on FB called  Books of Horror , which has been really helpful if I've ever been in search of books to read. An added bonus is that few, if any, frowns upon the "crazy" books we read in that group. While I'm not a die-hard fandom person myself, I do see t...