September 6 (2)

[cerealjoe]

I love the little inconsistencies in life. Like if one were to see this book without having ever heard of the author, one might think that The Shadow of the Wind was published years before this one. It's actually the opposite. This one was published in 1993 while The Shadow of the Wind came out in 2001… but I guess these things do not matter when it comes to marketing. Still, this book, this Prince of Mist, it's a YA book that I can only read a little bit at a time and in very warm and sunny conditions. Because, yes, it is quite freaky and I get easily freaked out by tiny things (yep, still refuse to watch the X Files). Apparently I can read whole books that describe the work of forensic pathologists in great detail (yummmm… maggots, rotting flesh and stories of how back in the early days of the science people would just simmer the dead's bones on their home stoves because their departments did not have adequate lab space/conditions) but give me a book meant for young adults that contains spooky clown statues that move on their own and are probably cursed circus folk that drowned on a ship and a cat that's clearly somehow channeling their spirits? Yeah, just writing it all out gives me goosebumps. Seriously, I have issues. Add to that the fact that I was reading it yesterday while sitting my back to a cemetery and across the grounds to what I think is a hospital or research institute or something that I'm convinced is abandoned (except that it's probably not, but in the years that I've been living here, I run by it at least once a week and I have seen total of maybe three dog walkers go there… hence my being convinced that it's abandoned and must be haunted).