Insomnia - Stephen King

I have always thought that Stephen King's books have been all about horror stories and that's the reason why I have never read any of his books. I'm not a fan of the horror genre and never have been. I know that he also writes other non-horror novels such as Insomnia (hence the reason why I decided to read it.) And here I am, just finished my first Stephen King novel (though an old one), and I'm sad to say goodbye to Ralph and Lois.

The Blurb:
You loose a lot of sleep.

Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death.

That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon...

My Thoughts:
Although it took me a while to finish it, I quite enjoyed it. I'm glad I started with Insomnia when I decided to check out Stephen King's books once and for all and I'm looking forward to continue to read them (not the horror ones though... I won't be able to sleep if I did).

I won't go into to much detail, although this is an old book and most people have probably read it 100 times by now, I don't want to spoil the whole book so I will say this:

The story is about a 70 year old man called Ralph who, after his wife dies, starts to loose more and more sleep. When the insomnia really kicks in, he starts to hallucinate. First colours or, auras, more like and then the bald doctors appears outside his neighbor's door. Which sounds bit creepy, but it's not when you get to know about them more 😛  After seeing those bald doctors, things starts to happen. Ed is turning from a lovely person to a crazy person. Ralph (and also we) start to understand why he's able to see the colours and the bald doctors and why he must stop Ed from doing something that will ruin so many lives.

I laughed (lots of funny dialogue between the characters) and I cried (or had tears in my eyes more like when sad things happened). I picked up the book night after night and read till I almost fell asleep.

I don't know why but.. I think it's funny that the book was about an old man with insomnia. When I started reading it, I did not see that coming from the 'King of horror'. In my head it's was all about carrie, the shining and other horror novels, so reading about a 70 year old man called Ralph was quite a surprise.

All in all, I really enjoyed Insomnia and I'm looking forward to read more of his books😊

(Oh, and also, I now see why he's one of the bestselling author of all times😉 )

Bye x

4/5

Next book to read: Can You Keep a Secret - Sophie Kinsella 
(completely different genre...oh well..😂)

December/January Book-haul.. so many books!

Hello! As you have noticed, I have been on a writing spree today. Sorry about the spam of reviews, but I wanted to put them out there once and for all after some time away from this blog. Worked pretty much every day in December which resulted in just reading and no reviewing because my head barely functioned.. Even drawing things every day in December was tough as my imagination was more or less non-existent most of the days. (Challenged myself to draw every day from 1. January - 31. December which I completed!! Yey!!) Anyways. So, in the meantime, while running low on energy and creativity, I might have gotten few more books since last time I was here... ahem...*cough*12 more books *cough*

Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier
The Silk Merchant's Daughter by Dinah Jefferies
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent
The Woods by Harlan Coben
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
1Q84 (The Complete Trilogy) by Haruki Murakami
Insomnia by Stephen King
Cell by Stephen King
Seconds Away (#2 Myron Bolitar) by Harlan Coben
The Farm (#1 The Farm) by Emily McKay
Fellside by M.R. Carey

I ordered Seconds Away without knowing that it was the second book in Harlan Coben's series... Guess I have to buy the first book before I start on that one.. Both Harlan Coben books are actually "research books" which is why I bought them btw😉

The three first books in the list were a christmas present from my grandmother, The Passenger was a christmas present from my boss (I got to choose a book from the shelf and chose that one😊) So technically I only bought 8/12 of these books😋

And that was all the books for now! My reviews are up-to-date and the same with this book-haul. What an effective few hours this has been😝

Hope to see you again soon!

Bye xx

Oh and Happy (belated) New Year! Here's to another year filled with more books!

Bookhaul and update

I got me some new books...again! They just keep coming and I can't help it!

I guess that's how it goes when I work in a bookstore... aaaand also earning my own money again...

Anyways, I now got 6 new books in my shelf! I'm also waiting for the newest book by Giovanna Fletcher called Always with love to arrive. So looking forward to read it! It's the sequel to her debut novel called Billy and me and I completely adored that book and her little short christmas story Christmas with Billy and me ^^

Here's this month little bookhaul:

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
I am Pilgrim (Nr. 1, Pilgrim series) by Terry Hayes
Mr. Mercedes (Nr. 1, Bill Hodges trilogy) by Stephen King
Irène (Nr. 1, Camille Verhæven series) by Pierre Lemaitre
Half Lost (Nr 3, Half Bad trilogy) by Sally Green
The Missing by C. L. Taylor


Update on Currently Reading:
I am still reading Wool by Hugh Howey. So far so good even though I haven't read that much! :) It kind of reminds me of the place Clarke and the others ends up in season 2 of The 100 really. And the world is toxic so the people in this story can't go outside without dying. That too is similar to The 100. It does say that it's the new Hunger Games or something, so we'll see if they're right :P

That's all for now!
Bye x