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Post by Alice on Oct 20, 2019 21:21:40 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of the reading this book and I'm almost half way through so far. Has anyone read this book? What are your thoughts on it?
Synopsis:
A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it's too late . . .
In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate abandon the comforts of suburbia and their teaching jobs to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this charming property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. As Helen starts carefully sourcing decorative building materials for her home--wooden beams, mantles, historic bricks--she starts to unearth, and literally conjure, the tragic lives of Hattie's descendants, three generations of "Breckenridge women," each of whom died amidst suspicion, and who seem to still be seeking something precious and elusive in the present day.
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Post by endo on Oct 21, 2019 12:43:00 GMT -5
No, I've never read it, but it sounds pretty good.
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Post by Alice on Oct 22, 2019 9:29:38 GMT -5
I was not aware that this book even existed until about a month ago when I was on a trip. I noticed this book at a book store and I immediately purchased it when I saw it because the synopsis sounded so good.
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Post by endo on Oct 22, 2019 12:27:50 GMT -5
I've never heard of the book or the author, but the synopsis does sound really good. Let us know what you thought.
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Post by Alice on Oct 31, 2019 16:36:06 GMT -5
Sure. I'm about 210 pages in and it's about 353 pages total if I remember correctly. It's going well so far but I'll let you know how it ends.
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Post by Alice on Nov 6, 2019 9:00:15 GMT -5
I finished this yesterday. The book kept a good pace all the way through the end. The ending was a surprise but I liked how it ended though.
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Post by endo on Nov 6, 2019 15:39:00 GMT -5
Good to hear. My wife has added it to her read list, I'll tell her you liked it.
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Post by Alice on Jan 29, 2020 6:53:13 GMT -5
Good to hear. My wife has added it to her read list, I'll tell her you liked it.
Has your wife read this book yet?
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Post by endo on Jan 29, 2020 16:47:10 GMT -5
I don't think so Alice. She just finished The Grapes of Wrath a week or so ago and is reading This Crazy Thing Called Love currently. I'll have to remind her about it, she just got s decent stack of books from the library, it may be one of the ones she picked up. |
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