Then one day my sister came up with a bunch of titles and suggested I look them up. Thank goodness I had time to choose a different book, but the choice was not that great-I struggled with finding another read and it made me nervous, as well as frustrated at myself for not researching enough, apparently, in the first place. I had to force myself to actually go through another page of it, and this is something that doesn’t happen often, I usually finish everything I’ve started. The reading didn’t even last two days, as I just couldn’t make myself open the book and read. I read many positive reviews, so I relaxed, forgot about it and thought I had the last few months of the challenge all planned (not quite, as it turned out.) I picked it up again in September, as I had finished with my September read, so I wanted to get ahead and finish the next one in advance. Initially, I had chosen another title with the word ‘October’ for our challenge, and I even bought it back in March, as I was certain it was the one I wanted to include.

Okay, first, a little bit of the story behind choosing this book as the one for the October’s #MonthlyTitles book challenge. “An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation.The October Country: #MonthlyTitles book review The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone: A most remarkable case of murder-the deceased was delighted. and a matter of identity in a bottle of fear. The Jar: A chilling story that combines love, death. The Scythe: Just when his luck had run out, Drew Erickson inherited a farm from a stranger and with the bequest came deadly responsibilities. The Small Assassin: A fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother’s dream come true-or her worst nightmare. The Emissary: The faithful dog was the sick boy’s only connection with the world outside-and beyond. Renowned for his multi-million-copy bestseller, Fahrenheit 451, and hailed by Harper’s magazine as “the finest living writer of fantastic fiction,” Ray Bradbury proves here that he is America’s master of the short story. The October Country is Ray Bradbury’s own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us.

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