#37

It's predictable, but I often read a lot of ole Stevie King during the fall. Sometimes I read Tolkien instead, though, so it gets pushed to midwinter or the dead of summer. Some years I don't hit Stevie up at all, and some years I just read a few here and there at random points throughout the year. This year basically as soon as it turned October I reread The Dark Half for the first time. Now I'm rereading The Dead Zone for the first time. Then I think I will reread Lisey's Story for the first time, and then I will pick one of the collections of shorter works to reread for the hundredth or so time. The Stephen King book I have read the most times is Cujo. I have read that book about seventy hundred thousand times. I really have no idea why; there are lots of other books of his I like even better. I guess Cujo is just really well-put-together, very taut, just enough color, everything very real and correctly placed, little or nothing wasted, all the characters superbly alive. 

I think Stephen King is a very, very good writer. 

I don't really like the weekend very much, I have found. After high school it lost its fundamental significance, so I prefer having free time when people are working, and having an excuse not to do stuff on the weekends. But there's usually less work on weekends, and work that is too easy drives me bonkers.

Sunday morning's an alright time. Maybe I'll write something more meaningful then. 

--JL