Reddit reviews Easy Bake Coven

Well, I'm reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King for the Shut Up and Read reading club. Simply put it's a story about a girl who gets lost in the woods. It's a great piece of suspense work.

> Synopsis from Amazon page: As darkness begins to fall and Trisha struggles for survival and a way out, she realises that she is not alone. There’s something else in the woods – watching. Waiting…

I recently also got my hands on HP Lovecraft The Complete Collection which is basically a 764-page long reminder of the limitations of my vocabulary. Underneath all the flowery language, though, and the archaic story structures, there's a lot of interesting and inspiring ideas.

It's filled with descriptions like this:

> Of the name and abode of this man but little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to know that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, and that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not on the fields and groves but on a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair.

Damn son.

To make you feel a little better, though, what little dialogue the stories have (always know to be Lovecraft's weak spot) goes like this:

> "Have you no brain whereby you may recognize the will which has through six long centuries fulfilled the dreadful curse upon your house? Have I not told you of the great elixir of eternal life? Know you not how the secret of Alchemy was solved? I tell you, it is I! I! I! that have lived for six hundred years to maintain my revenge, FOR I AM CHARLES LE SORCIER!"

Okay, Charles... sheesh...

And finally, to balance off the melodrama, I'm reading Easy Bake Coven by Liz Schulte, a story about a "casual" witch to whom some shit happens. It's quite the light read.

I try to read a bunch of different genres. My most interesting ideas come from a mixture of things I've read/seen in one genre clicking together and transforming to fit into the modern comedy fantasy state my head constantly lives in.

Not all of them are YA (some even flirt with erotica). Not all are romance/love stories and vampires are not in all of them, but they usually have something to do with paranormal things. Werewolves, fae, witches, zombies or fairy tales.

I joined about a year ago and I have bought about a half dozen things (usually collections for $1-3) but I have gotten over 300 books (a few shown above). They are usually independent authors and some are not well written but I love to read.