#specifically the one where the cheerleaders bake cocaine into cookies

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are there any books you'd recommend? i have also felt increasingly disconnect from ya works. Even though they can have good plots, I'm just moving on from that point in my life. High school is further and further away. I've been out in the world and I've been blessed to be able to physically attend university (before the pandemic. Now I'm always just in my rooms. I promise I'm being safe!). But those places are just very different from where teenagers who are finding their way in the world are going to be and I've passed that mile marker already and can never go back

I need something new with a good plot. We never stop finding ourselves until the day we die but I'm not really interested in reading about the ya type anymore.

Movie/show recommendations would be amazing too! Thanks for being active in the fandom and I hope you're feeling well.

Hi anon!

Unfortunately, the books that I’ve been reading throughout the pandemic all skew toward the horror/thriller genre. It’s my favorite no matter the situation, but I’ve gravitated toward more of it over the last year because they keep me occupied. I’ll list a few of the books that I’ve read (or reread. and recommend to anyone that asks) below.

Stephen King:

- the stand (my all time favorite book EVER)

- under the dome (ignore the shitty tv adaptation from a couple years ago. They changed the story COMPLETELY)

- 11/22/63 - the book is really engaging and even the miniseries is watchable, which isn’t the case for a lot of his adaptations

- the Mr Mercedes trilogy was really good - even though the ending happened at a really difficult time in my life and the arc for one characters was super hard to read

- any of the short short compilations + the long walk, joyland and blockade billy

Joe Hill: (he’s Stephen King’s son)

- NOS4A2 - ignore the AMC show. It tried. It failed.

- the fireman - maybe my favorite book of his. IDK, dragonscale sounds BEAUTIFUL and I want Ben Barnes and Oscar Isaac to star in an adaptation of it.

- heart shaped box

Assorted:

- house of leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

- when i was younger i went through a Christopher Pike phase and OBSESSIVELY read a bunch of those books. I loved the “last vampire” series and specifically remember reading “die softly”, ���the midnight club” and “the immortal” when i was in elementary school. they’re all YA horror, and I downloaded a bunch of them to my kindle a while back and have been picking my way through them. They’re not Great, but still a fun read through and a throwback to my childhood.

- the giver by Lois Lowry (the sequels are underwhelming)

Maybe someone that follows me and sees this will have some additional recommendations, anon. Sorry I tend to stick to one genre 😩

When it comes to shows?

- the boys (Amazon prime)

- the handmaid’s tale (Hulu)

- ozark (Netflix)

- narcos (Netflix)

- preacher (was on AMC)

- Chernobyl (HBO)

- dark (Netflix)