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A review by hb_bookworm
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
4.0
review 2: still not sure how to format reread reviews, but i enjoyed this on rereading, especially after having read another of Tremblay's books. I love his meta creepiness and the way he evokes the horror of being a kid, teen, and adult so well. i again experienced this book in a mishmash of audio and text - i highly recommend all the narrators of the audio, but it sometimes works better in print (especially notes from the dog walkers!).
so I read this book in a complicated way - listened to the first half, paused, read A Head Full of Ghosts, read the middle in the physical book, and then listened to the end again. while this is full of little references to the rest of tremblay's work, you really need to have read at least A Head Full of Ghosts to get some of the stories. I was pleasantly surprised by the choose-your-own-adventure section -- if you're like me and hate the idea that you'll miss anything in this style of story, you can really read this one mostly straight through. while I didn't absolutely love all the stories, I am a big horror short story fan and most of these hit the spot for me. I feel like you'll either love or hate the meta-ness of "notes from the dog walkers," and I was in the "love" camp -- hearing from any version of KB is so much fun! this was a perfect spooky book to read for the beginning of fall and I'm definitely looking forward to reading more from tremblay!
so I read this book in a complicated way - listened to the first half, paused, read A Head Full of Ghosts, read the middle in the physical book, and then listened to the end again. while this is full of little references to the rest of tremblay's work, you really need to have read at least A Head Full of Ghosts to get some of the stories. I was pleasantly surprised by the choose-your-own-adventure section -- if you're like me and hate the idea that you'll miss anything in this style of story, you can really read this one mostly straight through. while I didn't absolutely love all the stories, I am a big horror short story fan and most of these hit the spot for me. I feel like you'll either love or hate the meta-ness of "notes from the dog walkers," and I was in the "love" camp -- hearing from any version of KB is so much fun! this was a perfect spooky book to read for the beginning of fall and I'm definitely looking forward to reading more from tremblay!