God bless Ray Bradbury. Even when not feeling well, I can always count on desperately needing to read one book each and every October: Something Wicked this Way Comes. Check it:
"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn't begun yet. July, well, July's really fine: there's no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June's best of all, for the school doors spring wide and September's a billion years away.
But you take October, now. School's been on a month and you're riding easier in the reins, jogging along. You got time to think of the garbage you'll dump on old man Prickett's porch, or the hairy-ape costume you'll wear to the YMCA the last night of the month. And if it's around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bedsheets around corners.
But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early." (p. 1.)
God, that's fantastic. Can't write more. Gotta go read.
I really need to read this book.
Posted by: J.S. Peyton | 18 October 2008 at 08:18 AM
Well, J.S., not to be too pushy, but yes you do. And this is the perfect time of year to do it!
Posted by: Citizen Reader | 18 October 2008 at 09:43 AM
I adore this book. It's snuggle-under-the-covers-scary-comfort reading of the highest order.
Posted by: ted | 18 October 2008 at 10:55 AM
Ted,
You're exactly right. Spooky, scary, unsettling...but still comfort reading. How does Bradbury DO that?
Posted by: Citizen Reader | 20 October 2008 at 02:16 PM