This week I finished two different books. Reading has always been one of my favorite hobbies for years ’cause reading is good for you. It’s good for your mind and helps get your mind off things. It’s what I like to do when I am completely bored and want to relax. When I’m not working out or playing guitar, reading is what I’ll do. Here’s the two books I finished reading this week, with a brief review:

“The Wind Through the Keyhole” by Stephen King: I am the biggest Stephen King fan ever. I have collected most of his books over the years, and if you look at my bookshelf sometime, half of it is full of Stephen King books on hardcover, it is sometimes hard to collect all Stephen King books ’cause he’s always releasing a new book all the time. On with the book, “The Wind Through the Keyhole” is a Dark Tower novel. The story takes place between Book IV and V. It tells the story of Roland ka-tet group, which includes, Susannah, Eddie, Jake and Oy, arriving at a river on their journey to the Dark Tower. An elderly man who operates a ferry warns them that a dangerous storm called Starkblast is coming, and they must find shelter for safety. So the ka-tet groups hides in the shelter while waiting for the storm to go by. While waiting for the storm to go by, Roland decides to tell his group a story about his past, where he and his friend goes to the town of Debaria to hunt down a man called, The Skin Man. The second story is about a boy named Tim Ross, who he must meet someone by the name of the Covenant Man, a tax collector.

I couldn’t put this book down. It’s not very long, a little over 300 pages, pretty short. I finished in just two or three days. Not like those 900-1000 pages long which Stephen is mostly known to writing that number of pages mostly. This novel stays away from the regular Dark Tower adventure and focuses on something completely different. The story will keep you guessing and hooked to the end. It’ll remind you of those children’s fairytale books even though this book is aimed for adult readers. This is just a fill in for in between Dark Tower novels, and it’s just proof that Stephen can keep the “Dark Tower” series going if he wanted. Could the Dark Tower series be the next big franchise when these start getting made into movies? Could they easily top, Harry Potter or Twilight? Maybe not with the younger audience, but the Dark Tower movies and TV series WILL be huge for adult fans. “The Wind Through the Keyhole” was pretty unique storytelling. You gotta wonder how Stephen comes up with these crazy stories. The guy has a strange imagination for sure, which is why I love his writing so much. He’s not afraid to tell stories how he wants them to be told.

“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest” – I finally gotten around to reading the final Lisbeth Salander story, the Millennium series. This novel was pretty addicting as well. It leaves off from, “The Girl Who Played With Fire”, the second novel. In this book, it’s about trying to prove Lisbeth innocent and make her a free woman because of her troubled past. She was wrongfully sent to a mental hospital as a teen and Blomkvist tries to help her to get her freedom back.

The book gets even more shocking than the last one. Of course, this book was hard to put down and I went right through it. The book reveals more shocking things about Lisbeth’s life. This book is less violent than the last two, but still this is a good conclusion and ended wonderfully. I love the Lisbeth Salander character. She’s so inspiring and almost makes you wish that she was a real person. You feel bad for her a lot too. She’s an honest character. After reading the three Lisbeth books makes me wish Stieg Larrson was still alive to write a fourth one.

I bought two more books from Ipad, Ibooks store, Dee Snider’s rock memoir, “Shut up and Give Me the Mic” and “50 Shades of Grey”. I’m not into romance novels too much, but I had to get “50 Shades of Grey” since the reviews says this book is pretty hot and steamy, an erotica story. Just got it out of curiosity and couldn’t resist that one.

Kev