Summer Reads: It and Summer of Night

This week the Librarians recommend two coming-of-age horror novels for your reading pleasure: 

It by Stephen King 

and 

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons

 

CW: descriptive violence, bullying, childhood sexual content, arachnophobia, bias against unhoused people and those with addiction, violence against LGBTQIA+ and homophobia, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, racism, animal death, reference to racial slurs, and organized religion.

 

Timestamps:

Housekeeping, color coding your life, millennial sticker anxiety, hypnotism and pasta sauce, a spooky MLM

16:21 It discussion begins

32:04 mild spoilers for the opening scene of IT

1:09:56 Summer of Night discussion begins