The Stephen King Summer is here.

This is my fourth year hosting a book club

dedicated to my favorite author of all time,

Stephen King. And I am so excited for what we have ahead of us in summer

2024. There are a few components to Stephen King Summer. The first is it's a book club. This year we are

reading two novels and a selection from his new short story collection, You Like It, Dark collection you like it darker that just came out this month. But before we get to

that in June we are reading Salem's Lot. This is a vampire story. This is King's second novel.

It was published in 1975 and it hits on some of the themes that come up time and time again in Stephen King's work.

So every year I like to offer a balance of his older classic stuff with newer stuff. I always like to offer a balance of

something scary and something less scary because I know so many of us kind of hit a

different place on the scale for how much fear we want in our reading.

So after we read Salem's Lot for most of July and August, we will be reading one of my favorite novels of all time.

It's on the newer side. It was published in 2011. It's called 112263. This is not a horror novel, which of course Stephen King is so famous for.

This is time travel and kind of a thriller suspense story.

It's about someone who decides to go back in time

and stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

So it's really different from some of the things

that you might think Stephen King rights and it's just one of my

favorite books of all time I'm very excited to share this with you but of course we're also going to get

sort of his horror scary side with with best in these long novels because both of those novels are really long.

Then we're going to pick a short story or two from his latest collection.

It just came out in May.

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