Daniel Stalter

New #Goosebumps Book Review!

How I Learned to Fly was an unexpected entry in the series. It wasn't perfect, but I really enjoyed the ending and the powerful little message at the book's core.

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01:00 PM - Mar 28, 2024

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New #Goosebumps Review! Beware, the Snowman did an excellent job at building an atmosphere, but it relied too heavily on faulty character logic and delivered an unsatisfying twist at the end.

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08:11 AM - Jan 30, 2024

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New #BookReview ! The New Year’s Party was the first #FearStreet book I read as a kid, so this was a very nostalgic return to Shadyside. It did not hold up especially well. It had a lot of great ideas at play but the execution left a lot to be desired.

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12:08 PM - Jan 04, 2024

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New Book Review! The Babysitter IV closes out the quadrilogy on a high note. It rushed the ending a bit too much for my liking, but I enjoyed this more than any of the other sequels. #RLStine #FearStreet #PointHorror #Books

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05:44 PM - Nov 15, 2023

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ERMAHGERD #47 : Legend of the Lost Legend. I had a lot of fun shooting this one last weekend. It was really difficult to pick just one photo. Special thanks to the Mx Harriet Tugsmen for lending time, energy, & creativity to this. #Goosebumps

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12:28 PM - Oct 27, 2023

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New #Goosebumps #BookReview !

Legend of the Lost Legend was a bit of a mess. I liked more of it than I didn’t, especially the dark twist at the end. It was also a relief to read a book where the primary source of horror wasn’t clueless parents.

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11:17 AM - Oct 26, 2023

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New #FearStreet #BookReview !

The last book of the Cataluna Chronicles surprised me in that it was better than the second book. It managed to deliver an entertaining and (mostly) satisfying conclusion, even if I was frustrated by parts of it.

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10:40 AM - Oct 23, 2023

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The #FearStreet Cataluna Chronicles finally answered my burning question: how exactly did a sports car come to be haunted by the ghost of a seventeenth century witch/shapeshifter who loves murder?

There are many ways to find out. My review is one of them:
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10:23 AM - Oct 12, 2023

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New #FearStreet book review! Kicking off The Cataluna Chronicles trilogy with The Evil Moon. I read these as a kid but I did not recall a lot from them The book itself isn’t perfect but it was still a solid kick off for a trilogy and I enjoyed reading it.

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05:24 PM - Oct 05, 2023

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Yet another #Goosebumps #BookReview .

How to Kill a Monster was a bit of a mess. This was in no small part due to the plot relying on Gretchen and Clark having the absolute worst grandparents ever.

I did like how gross the monster was, though.

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11:18 AM - Sep 27, 2023

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I’m back on my bullshit with a new #Goosebumps #bookreview ! Ghost Camp was almost great, but it left me with too many unanswered questions. I’m going to do a ranking of the worst Goosebumps parents when I finish this series. Henry’s parents will make the list.

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11:00 AM - Sep 21, 2023

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New #BookReview ! The Beast 2 was better than a lot of Stine sequels, but that isn’t saying much. I realized it made one significant mistake early on that prevented it from distinguishing itself from the first book. #Goosebumps

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01:35 AM - Aug 04, 2023

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New #Goosebumps book review! Say Cheese and Die — Again! was a lackluster sequel that didn’t try anything new, relied on problematic body horror, and delivered a particularly unsatisfying twist at the end. My full review is up on the blog:

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12:10 PM - Jul 27, 2023

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New Book Review! Fear Street #25 : One Evil Summer was a really fun book. It was unhinged in all the best ways, and it checked off all the things that I have grown to love about Fear Street.

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#FEARSTREET #BookReview #SummerFriday

12:29 PM - Jul 21, 2023

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Here's some photos from my trip to Amsterdam in 2019. I also posted a little retrospective of the trip (with even more photos) on my blog:

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#travel #amsterdam #bikelife #travelblog

12:33 PM - Jul 11, 2023

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New Goosebumps book review! Beast from the East shows RL Stine leaning into his best tendencies and avoiding his worst ones. This is the most fun I’ve had reading one of these in awhile. #BookReview #Goosebumps

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11:15 PM - Jun 29, 2023

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NEW BOOK REVIEW! Lois Duncan’s Stranger with My Face was deceptively long, but I’m a sucker for a good slow-burn. Also I found out there’s a Lifetime Original movie adapted from it. I included my bullet review of that too. Read it all on the blog:

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09:01 AM - Jun 23, 2023

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NEW BOOK REVIEW! Lois Duncan’s Stranger with My Face was deceptively long, but I’m a sucker for a good slow-burn. Also I found out there is a Lifetime Original movie adapted from it. I watched it and included my bullet review. Read it all on the blog:

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08:59 AM - Jun 23, 2023

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New #Goosebumps book review! Egg Monsters from Mars was a weird one… with (I think) the most disturbing twist ending I’ve encountered so far. You can read all of my thoughts about it here:

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11:44 AM - Jun 15, 2023

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New #FEARSTREET book review! Just in time for the trend of prom season. The Prom Queen follows a familiar Fear Street formula, but I think it endedup being better (and bloodier) than most.
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05:19 PM - May 31, 2023

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Here’s the pitch: a mechanical genius builds a bunch of robots, disguises himself as a janitor, and then open up a piano school that murders children and steals their hands.

10:51 AM - May 03, 2023

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My #Goosebumps #BookReview of Night of the Living Dummy III is up. It also includes a bullet review of the TV adaptation. Overall it was one of the better ones. You can check the full thing out on my blog:

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10:00 AM - Mar 28, 2023

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New #FEARSTREET #BookReview ! Switched might be the most frustrating book I’ve read in the series. It started out with such a wild and engaging premise, then it was all undone with an unnecessary second-act twist. The full review is on my blog:

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10:02 AM - Mar 23, 2023

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New #Goosebumps #BookReview ! How I Got My Shrunken Head had all he makings of a good book, but a combination of confusing characters and uninspired magic made for a very forgettable adventure.

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10:30 AM - Mar 16, 2023

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