poor bedtime reading choices

[orangerful]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I finished reading Leviathan Wakes so I needed another bedtime book. I foolishly brought home this book:



I mean, I should have known it was going to bother me. When I read Mindhunter earlier this year, it gave me the willies. But this book has such a long wait list because of all the press around it - the fact that the author was right about the identity of the killer, that she tragically died before seeing him convicted - so I knew I only had three weeks to get through it so I was like "You gotta read it all the time to finish it!"

But I think I'm going to just have to make it a lunch break book. Two nights in a row I have woken myself up, convinced I heard something, too scared to move. I know it is just my mind, but in that half awake/half asleep daze of 3am, I'm just terrified. I really had to pee last night too but I just could not bring myself to get up and out of bed.

I think it is because it is a true crime book. I could read scary stories with monsters and sleep fine. This is why I only read them if they are really good.

So for my safety and my sanity, this one can only be read in the daylight!

Have you ever read anything that made it hard for you to sleep at night or haunted you during the day?

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Definitely though right now the only thing I can recall is The Exorcist which freaked me out a lot as a teenager. But I know that creepy stuff can definitely be a bad read for me at night.

[orangerful]

I was never brave enough to read 'The Exorcist', the movie was enough to freak me out (though I remember the spinal tap scene being the most upsetting part LOL)

[silverusagi]

Have you ever read anything that made it hard for you to sleep at night or haunted you during the day?

Only Reddit posts about creepy happenings. Don't read one of those at 2 a.m.