• Grab a book, any book.
• Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
• Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it).
• Post it.
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While most kids were watching cartoons in 1988, I was a seven-year-old sitting in the floor directly in front of my grandparent's old television set watching Jamie Lee Curtis being stalked by a psychopath wearing a William Shatner mask. 

Yeah, you shouldn't let a seven-year-old watch a slasher film, but my grandmother did. Thanks, Grandma! 

I believe I was probably pestering my grandmother, so she played a movie in the VHS player for me to watch. Don't worry, the movie was edited. She had recorded Halloween I, II, and III onto a VHS tape off of television the previous year. I would say she played the movie just to get me to leave her alone. Whatever the reason, it was the first time I watched Halloween, which would become my favorite movie.

While Halloween wasn't my venture into the world of horror (Midnight Hour (1985) gets that honor!), it was my very first slasher flick, which kicked off my lifetime love for the Halloween franchise. (Yes, that even includes the godawful Halloween Resurrection!)

I can't explain why my favorite movie is about a masked killer stalking a babysitter on Halloween Night. It might have something to do with the film's Gothic-like atmosphere or it might have something to with the little fact that my first crush was on Jamie Lee Curtis! 

My mother thought I was crazy for liking a slasher film and thought there was something mentally wrong with me. I'm not joking, she really thought there was something wrong with me. Through my eyes Halloween was just a movie. I knew the difference between make-believe and reality, so I never saw the harm in watching the movie.

I believe I still have my grandmother's VHS tape, but for the life of me I couldn't find it before I started writing this. I believe it is stored in a box somewhere. 

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The only book I'm excited about this week is Elevation by Stephen King. I had requested to review the book from the publisher several weeks ago, but I never heard back from them. I looked for the book at my local Walmart today, but it wasn't there. While the store's book selection is very slim, they are normally up-to-date on most "big name" titles. I was probably just there too early before the "book person" brought in the new batch of books. Walmart employees don't stock the books; somebody else comes to do it. If the store doesn't get the book in, I will eventually order the book.

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I'm currently reading Halloween: The Official Novelization by John Passarella. I'll be posting my review for it sometime tomorrow.

America Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell is more of a passion read. I'm currently on page 39 (Chapter Three). I'm reading it one chapter at a time or one chapter per week.