Creepy kids doing creepy things, and begetting creepy children. Family secrets. All the elements of the stuff I usually like reading are here, but presented in a way (oral history) that just doesn't appeal. This is probably one of those books that everyone else loves, but I think it's...middling.
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in books they write, they continue to exist...
I postponed reading this book for a long time because of the some bad reviews. Now I can say that it turned out to be one of the most interesting books I read this year. Maybe because I have a soft spot for stories inside stories. Setterfield knows how to tell a good story. I loved Ms. Winter`s mem...
Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father’s antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too l...
I found this immensely entertaining; a book that gripped me from the first page to last, with no dull passages I was tempted to skim, and one I hated to put down until finished. It didn't make me cry or laugh out loud or make me think, so I guess it doesn't quite deserve top marks, but Setterfield s...
The ghosts that send chills down our backs aren’t ghosts visiting us in spirit form, speaking to us and making its appearance when it has unfinished business, no. The ghosts that send chills down our backs and make our heart race impossibly fast are stories. Stories so vivid it haunts you and makes ...
I bought this book from a bargain books rack mainly because the casting for the BBC movie is A++ (Olivia Colman, Vanessa Redgrave, SOPHIE TURNER). I really didn't expect it to be such an enjoyable read. It does miss the mark a bit, to be something truly special. It's good, but it never really goes o...
William Bellman is good at everything he sets his mind to; too good, in some cases. For when William is just 10 years old, he boasts to his buddies that he can hit a rook that perches an impossible distance away with his slingshot, and, much to everyone’s surprise, he the rook falls dead, struck by ...
For books that cover similar ground, I liked this more than [b:The Forgotten Garden|3407877|The Forgotten Garden|Kate Morton|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327910234s/3407877.jpg|3448086], but less than [b:The Children's Book|6280379|The Children's Book|A.S. Byatt|http://d202m5krfqbpi5....
This book was a fun ride, but it wasn't terribly well-written. Some of the solutions for the problems the characters had to face seemed to come out of nowhere and were a bit unrealistic.
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