I got way behind on books.
1. A Newbery Halloween, compiled by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
2. Spirits, Spooks, and Other Sinister Creatures, selected by Helen Hoke
3. Seventy-seven Clocks, Chistopher Fowler
4. We'll Always Have Paris, Ray Bradbury
1. Many of these stories suffered from being extracted from larger works, and the maturity level varies widely. Uneven and not very engaging.
2. This one was better. There's nothing too awful in it that would scare older elementary or junior high kids.
3. I am conflicted about this book. It's very creative, like the other Bryant and May book I read, but there was a referral to sexual assault as "having intercourse" that bothered me intensely. Don't worry, it's not an Oprah-type book that will make you want to throw up while the flames from your eyes are burning the organs of all pedophiles past, present and future. I mean, because you want to do that anyway, right? But this one will not substantially intensify that desire.
4. This was not the strongest Bradbury collection I've ever read.
