# Title: If It Bleeds             

## Author: Stephen King

**Started Reading**: 2020-05-17

**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-12

[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46015758-if-it-bleeds)

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His latest book of short stories.  

**MR. HARRIGAN’S PHONE**: I liked the concept of this story.  The thought of a cell phone ringing in a casket 6 feet underground is creepy.  The thought of getting a text message in response is worse.

**THE LIFE OF CHUCK**: I'm not sure I entirely got this one.  I think I read somewhere that if references other works of his that I'm not familiar with.

**IF IT BLEEDS**: The best of the bunch, for sure. Not until I got to this story did I remember hearing about a reappearance of Holly Gibney.  I'm glad I read the "The Outsider" and the Bill Hodges trilogy.  It makes this story make a lot more sense. 

**RAT**: Started good and ended meh.

END NOTES: typical Stephen King lately: these really good stories ended with a shrug

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