The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe begins in 1681 when a mysterious woman is brought to the bedside of a young girl stricken with a sudden illness. The girl’s father regards the woman with a mixture of distrust and hope, and the scene ends before the reader finds out the outcome...
The main character, Connie Goodwin, is working to get her doctorate at Harvard. As she looks for a topic on for her dissertation her mother asks her to clean out her grandmother’s old home. She finds strange jars full of things, an old bible with a key and the name Deliverance Dane. Her curiosity...
The upside to buying a book on impulse that you later find out from your BL friends is at best an average read: your expectations are set accordingly. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane was an impulse buy at a FOTL sale based on the oh-so-fabulous cover and an ultra-quick scan of the book flap. ...
Set in Cambridge, Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts this unique story told with a new England accent flashes back and forth between two time periods: during the Salem witch trials in the late 1600’s and the summer of 1991. This book is definitely a work of fantasy. The general outline follows seve...
I don't even know how to review this book as the book is so rich with detail anything or everything pales in comparison. Positive: I really enjoyed the immense vivid imagery. Negative: This book gave me a headache. Result: I forgot the point of the story. I felt like I should be studying this book s...
I love the premise of this book, being a researcher and historian myself. I also like investigations into the paranormal. However - this ends up bordering on magic and fantasy. The historical side of the story was very well done. I would like to have learned more about these women and their relation...
I think I have discovered the fundamental difference between fiction and reality. In fiction the skeptic is almost always wrong and in reality the skeptic is almost always right. In novels, movies and television the house always turns out to be haunted, the monster is real, magic works, and the alie...
PhD candidate Connie Goodwin is preparing her late grandmother's long-abandoned Marblehead, Mass., house for sale when she finds a key in the family Bible. Rolled up inside the antique key is a slip of paper with a name on it: Deliverance Dane.Connie decides she is going to find out all she can abou...
Connie Goodwin finds a parchement inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane in the spine of a bible in her grandmothers house that she's clearing out for her mother. This leads her on a summer of love and exploration and delving into the past of her family, and the possible curse on the men in the l...
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is a story about a Harvard graduate student who selects Deliverance Dane, a woman accused of witch craft during the Salem trials, as the subject for her PhD thesis. This was a fun book to listen to - it combined suspense with a bit of magic and romance thrown in...
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