book of october: the stand

They all say Stephen King is quite the author. I’d never read any of his work before now. Why now? Well it is October, and I wanted to plan for Halloween the whole month.

Halloween isn’t as big here in Sweden, but I still try to celebrate in my own way every year. Some years we bake Halloween treats and invite friends over, sometimes I try to watch a scary movie. The thing is I don’t like watching scary movies alone, and I can’t seem to get anyone here at home to watch with me. So this year I tried something new. What I didn’t realize is that horror books are also quite the scare fest. Definitely worth it though. Pick up a copy near you if you haven’t already read this one!

more movies i say!

Remember how I wanted to watch more movies? (Pretty sweet personal goal if you ask me.) Well Evelina found The Shawshank Redemption on Netflix, or Nyckeln till frihet as we say in Swedish.

picture found here

I hope you’ve all watched it. Seriously if you haven’t yet, go do it now. Yes, right now, this blog post can wait.

Go!

Are you gone?

Well that was a little rude, just leaving mid post like that. I’ll consider forgiving you.

In the mean time, it really was an incredible movie. I understand why it’s number one on IMDB’s top 250 list. I do have to say I find it particularly interesting that the Swedish title, when translated into English, means: The Key to Freedom.

Interesting. Very interesting.

I wonder what themes, motifs, and underlying messages can be deduced from that? Probably a lot. I’ll leave you to your deducing.