Family secrets have a way of haunting descendants, even when the descendants don’t know the whole story. At least, that’s the way it is for Simon and Enola Watson in Erika Swyler’s captivating The Book of Speculation. Recent tragedies have led Simon to be a staid archivist in the Watson’s hometown o...
Simon Watson, a librarian, is the stable one in his family, or so it seems. His sister, Enola, is a tarot card reader who travels with carnivals, as did their mother. Simon has always taken care of Enola, from working after school as a teenager to feed and clothe them both, to driving through the ni...
This book was very different than what I was expecting. I expected it to be more about books, rather than just about one. However, I did find it to be very entertaining and very weird that all the characters in the story (except Doyle) were related to someone in the book. I also liked how the author...
Publication Date: 23rd June 2015 from St Martins Press. Source: Netgalley Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a bluff that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long ...
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