#Richard Peck

[obscureloftgem]

—“Gas Food Lodging” (1992) | By Allison Anders

Movie Adaptation: Don't Look and It Won't Hurt by Richard Peck, 1972.

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"A Year Down Yonder" by Richard Peck

This and the one before it are hilarious! Highly recommend! The third book just had me sad, so I don't recommend the third. But this and the first one are fantastic! 😊

QOTD: Who is your favorite Gravity Falls character?✨ Answer: Grunkle Stan for me! 🤣

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[bracketsoffear]

The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells) "The opening of "The Invisible Man" focuses on outside perspectives of the titular character, and the narrative itself refers to him simply as "the stranger". His looks are unusual: he wears large clothes and covers his eyes with tinted glasses, and underneath those, he's covered in bandages, as if he's had some sort of horrible accident. His behavior is strange, too. He's rude and reclusive, holed up in his at an inn and working with bizarre chemical concoctions, causing accidents and damage constantly.

Throughout the story, the man, Griffin, becomes increasingly erratic. His attempts to reverse his condition all fail, but the things he can do when he goes unnoticed are increasingly violent and cruel.

When he finally becomes fed up with everything, he reveals himself to the proprietors and patrons of the inn, who are prepared to see anything under the bandages, any manner of injury or disfigurement, but instead, run screaming from the establishment, when he reveals nothing at all."

Secrets of the Shopping Mall (Richard Peck) "Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a cement-covered suburban shopping mall--not quite the paradise they had hoped for.

With no money and no home to retum to, they are forced to stay. And paradise park takes them in--in more ways than one. Barnie and Teresa spend their days and nights in the climate-controlled consumer paradise of a large department store. And just when they think they can live there unnoticed forever, Teresa and Barnie find that even Paradise Park has its secrets. Even in the dead of night, they are far from alone…." (Spoilers under the cut)

Secrets of the Shopping Mall, cont.: It's not actually living mannequins, but dispossessed and mildly insane teens who dress as mannequins and stand perfectly still all day to avoid detection! Which… I'm not sure is much better.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Richard Peck - Ghosts I Have Been - Dell - 1977 (cover art by Rowena Morrill)

[e-b-reads]

Not Your Classics Challenge

day 19: The Grapes of Wrath

File under: books set during the Great Depression.

[laughingblue12]

Books That Make You Hurt

[weirdlookindog]

The Omen (1976)

[kitsunetsuki]

Richard Dormer - Dress by Polly Peck (Vogue UK 1965)

[fourorfivemovements]

Happy 30th Anniversary, Jurassic Park!

[sechsherzen]

Richard & Till during ‘Puppe’ (Vilnius, 22/05/23)

[brody75]

The Omen (1976)

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"A Long Way From Chicago" by Richard Peck

Thank you @bookishflights for the rec! It made me laugh! ❤️

[xanny-zuko]

me when atticus finch is my comfort character (my daddy issues are debiltatiing)

[bracketsoffear]

Secrets of the Shopping Mall (Richard Peck) "Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a cement-covered suburban shopping mall--not quite the paradise they had hoped for.

With no money and no home to retum to, they are forced to stay. And paradise park takes them in--in more ways than one. Barnie and Teresa spend their days and nights in the climate-controlled consumer paradise of a large department store. And just when they think they can live there unnoticed forever, Teresa and Barnie find that even Paradise Park has its secrets. Even in the dead of night, they are far from alone…." (Spoilers under the cut)

How to Sell a Haunted House (Grady Hendrix) "When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.

Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.

But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…"

Secrets of the Shopping Mall, cont.: It's not actually living mannequins, but dispossessed and mildly insane teens who dress as mannequins and stand perfectly still all day to avoid detection! Which… I'm not sure is much better.