Loved it.   I read it in less than two days, which is so, so fast for me.  I stayed up until 4:30 in the morning reading last night.  I had to know what happened.  Briefly, the story takes place in 1973.  The narrator remembers back to a summer job he had while on break from college.  He takes a job at an amusement park (Joyland) and the fun begins.  There's the ghost of a young woman who was murdered by a serial killer four years earlier.  But is there really a ghost?  And who is the killer?  And how do a little boy with muscular dystophy and his hot mom figure into the tale?  It all weaves together perfectly.  That's all I'll say. 

Wow. It's been a while since I've posted to my blog.  I haven't been reading novels.  I've been reading other things. Plus I finished my latest novel and now I'm ready to get it out there.  And I put together a nonfiction book: A Year in the Life of a Civil War Soldier.  It includes my great-great grandfather's 1864 diary.  He was a Union soldier.  I'm just waiting on some comment from the people I gave proof copies to.  Ahhh.  I finished reading Turn of the Screw and didn't love it.  Didn't even like it that much.  I reviewed it on Goodreads, but felt a little funny doing so.  It's a classic and greater minds than mine seem to love it.  I find it tough to judge a book written in another era.  It's like reading a foreign language a lot of the time.