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Spirit Week
Spirit Week | Ira Marcks
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Two people, aspiring filmmaker Elijah and thirteen-year-old tutor Suzy, are invited to a largely deserted hotel in Estes Park Colorado to make a film about reclusive horror author Jack Axworth, and tutor his son, Danny; but the situation is not as expected: Jack is suffering from early onset dementia, and convinced that his books have released evil, is trying to buy up and destroy them as well as the hotel he lives in--but nobody is quite what they seem, and soon the whole project starts to resemble one of Jack's horror novels.
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bthegood
Spirit Week | Ira Marcks
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A fun read if you have read The Shining- as a group of young people try to save their town by keeping the Underlook Hotel from being destroyed by Jack Axworth, the horror king. The artwork is great. If you haven't read The Shining, the story is fine. I'm not sure how the target audience (who are too young to have read the book or seen the movie) would find this - for me it worked.
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Make a great day everyone 🙂

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bthegood
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My September #BookSpinBingo list. The books in red I've started reading - thank you for hosting @TheAromaofBooks -

Make a great day everyone -🍂

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Karisimo
Spirit Week | Ira Marcks
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I happened to be reading both of these books this week (one on audio, one physical book) and they both took place in creepy hotels in the winter! Spirit Week is a spoof of The Shining and Two Truths and a Lie is a closed room mystery. Funny how that works some times!!

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LibrarianRyan
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3.5 ⭐ Going into this book blind I would‘ve thought this was a ghost story. However, it‘s a retelling for the Shining but for a much younger audience. It‘s not a strict retelling, but it‘s about the Underlook Hotel in Estes Park. It‘s about the writer who lives in that hotel with his son Danny, and the ghosts that inhabit it. It‘s also about a girl from the community who hates everything about the hotel and the young boy who has come to

LibrarianRyan interview the author on film. I loved how the author incorporated ideas of other famous hauntings as well as mining and lore from the town itself. Overall, this was a fun and interesting read, but it could have been better. I say that because the ending is depressing and leaves a bit of a bat a taste in my mouth. However, there is no blood and guts or gruesome deaths, making this book perfect for the age group. 1y
TheBookgeekFrau It sounds kind of fun though 1y
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