Penpal

Penpal

Dathan Auerbach

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.25Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.5

Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Before long, it was adapted into illustrations, audio recordings, and short films; and that was before it was revised and expanded into a novel! How much do you remember about your childhood? In Penpal, a man investigates the seemingly unrelated bizarre, tragic, and horrific occurrences of his childhood in an attempt to finally understand them. Beginning with only fragments of his earliest years, you'll follow the narrator as he discovers that these strange and horrible events are actually part of a single terrifying story that has shaped the entirety of his life and the lives of those around him. If you've ever stayed in the woods just a little too long after dark, if you've ever had the feeling that someone or something was trying to hurt you, if you remember the first friend you ever made and how strong that bond was, then Penpal is a story that you won't soon forget, despite how you might try.

Publication Year: 2012


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    Usually, books that share a lot of stories from the narrator’s past that don’t seem relevant (at least at this point), would annoy be, but for some reason I’m not with this book??? Still not sure where the story will take me 🤔

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  • Thoughts from 19% (page 46)

    As a former teacher, I am cringing so hard at the idea of having your students share their names and what school they go to in a letter they'll send off via balloon in the hope that a total stranger will find it and write back. And to add a PHOTO of the child in the letter too?? BIG yikes 😭

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