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Hallowread: 3 Short Stories
The night before Halloween I finished The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and thought that would be the only spooky reading I’d be able to fit in this year. Halloween night, however, I was in dire need of a hot bath after shifting books all day at the library in preparation to move the shelves for…
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Pryday #11
Hi, all, I hope you’ve had a lovely week of reading. This week for Pryday, let’s talk scary. I haven’t done much this year to get in the Halloween spirit, but I have been watching the World Series which has been scarily good 🙂 I did decide a few days ago to read The Legend…
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Classics Circuit: The Witch of Ravensworth by George Brewer
The Witch of Ravensworth was written by George Brewer, a sailor turned attorney turned writer, and it was published in 1808. According to the Valancourt Books website the witch in the novel “is a precursor to later Gothic literary monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula.” The very last sentence of The Witch of Ravensworth sums up the…
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When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
I have a very fond association with The Scarlet Letter after having read it in college and so am open to any re-interpretations of the novel, though I have yet to read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. When She Woke is also a futuristic take on the Hawthorne novel, set sometime in America’s future after…
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Pryday #10
Hello everyone! I had a few ideas for this week’s Pryday question and even wrote an entire post using one of my ideas, but it didn’t feel like the right question for today. So after thinking about my week in reading I realized that what I really want to know is: What books that are…
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This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
I opened my email and she was there, exposed in the raw – not just her body but her emotions Overwhelmed with awe I had to share the video with someone else and my best friend was the one I trusted I didn’t think, I didn’t think, I didn’t think …
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Pryday #9
I’ve been thinking about families this week. I just finished an excellent book called This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman that tells the story of one family’s struggles after their teenage son makes a huge mistake (I’ll write more about the book later). I started thinking about how much I love reading about family dynamics…
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A Book of Secrets by Michael Holroyd
This book was brought to my attention by the lovely blog Ciao Domenica. I wasn’t really sure what to expect as the book jacket is not very informative and, in fact, is strangely vague. But I can somewhat understand it as this book is hard to categorize. At its root, it is a portrait of…
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Pryday #8
Oh, hello! Yes, it’s been a week since I’ve been here. I’ve seemed to have run into a little reading slump, well, more like a malaise. I don’t have the inclination to read right now, but I try to out of habit and end up abandoning every book I pick up. This week I’ve tossed…
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Pryday #7
Hello, everyone! It’s the end of another work week and the end of another month. As we plunge into fall it’s hard not to start thinking about the ending of another year. We’re through nine months of reading so far in 2011 and at the risk of getting ahead of myself I started to review…
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