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If you need a quick ghost story fix, Simone St James has the perfect novella for you! Quick but intriguing read!👻😱
Genuinely creepy and interesting. I enjoyed this one quite a bit.
Set in 1959, a stage actress, after suffering a mental breakdown, escapes to a small town in New York where she rents a house in a suburban neighborhood.
This 80 page novella is basically "Rear Window" with a supernatural twist.
Fun and creepy.
Book 22
I listened to Ghost 19, which I had no idea was a novella until it ended! St. James is an iconic author of compelling and chilling ghost stories. Ginette moves to the suburbs, in hopes of improving her mental health, and spends her days watching her neighbors and hearing scary noises from her own house. Too short to delve deeply into the characters, but well-done. âï¸âï¸âï¸âï¸
Ginette has had a breakdown and is now in a new place. And with few to no other distractions she starts neighbor watching. The whole thing is very Rear Window.
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Read for #SundayBuddyRead This novella is not my favorite thing Simone St. James has written, but it was creepy & good & still a pick for me despite not loving the end. Did the novella format work well because a small dose of the unreliable main character was enough or would a deeper dive into the main character made me like her more?🤷ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸
Waiting for her next full-length book next year.
I read more than 20 chapters….finished The Murder at the Vivarage and Ghost 19….and still reading my chunkster, Kristen Lavransdattar. Thanks @Andrew65 January #20in24 Readathon
Light pick for me…the creepy factor helped win me over. Short stories are not my usual reading genre, but I could not help picking this up because of the author. There were pieces of the story that I wished were fleshed out a bit more - vague connections and statements made that I really wanted to have more explanations or further exploration. Overall, it kept me on the edge of my seat, and I had to see what happened next. #SundayBuddyRead
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Well I thank ya. This was different!
Happy Sunday!
I woke at 530a couldn‘t get back to sleep so I posted 😫🤷ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸ we‘ve got a ton of snow overnight so I‘ll be here with cocoa reading our February book ! See you next week! ♥ï¸
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Overall thoughts?
I see she‘s writing hopefully a book and hopefully we‘ll get to read it next year for #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD she‘s reportedly set the book in the 1990s 👀 which was 10 years ago right? 🤣
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So thoughts ? Did she get inspired from this you think?
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I wasn‘t maternal -part of what was wrong with me…
Ugh this trope AGAIN😫😵â€ðŸ’«
So maddening…
But phew 29 she can still have kids and marry respectably🤮
Cannot believe how relevant this is.. 🤬
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Do you like reading novellas ? Short stories compiled in one big book?
Did you like the NOW THEN on chapters did it help the flow?
Was this novella scarier than her books for you?
Should this have been a book instead? More fleshed out?
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Do the ghosts seem different than her usual ghosts? More menacing ?
Did you think of A Beautiful Mind?
Is she so off kilter it‘s truly just in her head?
TRIXIE.
Oy.
How awful.
Thoughts?
Should there be a trigger warning on this book since it was a child ?
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The grocery delivery boy 👀
Thoughts ??????
Aspic- please NO
ANYONE?
https://www.bhg.com/tomato-aspic-6826457
Mayonnaise casserole? https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/89670/crunchy-chicken-casserole-with-mayo/
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So this is the second time in a book there‘s been what seems to be a homophonic remark…
“He was the best looking man I‘ve ever seen even if there were rumors, he liked other men maybe he did but he sure as hell knew how to do a romantic scene with a woman, and he always smelled of manly peppermint….†Did this strike you that way as well?
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Neighbor watching 🤣
How many of us do this?
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There‘s been a lot of memes lately about women going to the seashore to rest like the old days..think we all need rest?
Ginette-Exhaustion
Rest needed
She was allowed books …
Agoraphobia -Agoraphobia (ag-uh-ruh-FOE-be-uh) is a type of anxiety disorder. Agoraphobia involves fearing and avoiding places or situations that might cause panic and feelings of being trapped, helpless or embarrassed.
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Our leading man…
Detective Ian Challis ?
It‘s always a detective -yes?
It‘s a theme.
I wonder why 👀🤷ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸
Thoughts?
Also she just lives with him now? 👀🤣🤷ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸
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Well that‘s a way to start a story!!👀
Ginette Cox
How did you like our main girl?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aspics-jello-salad
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That was nice and creepy 👻 😳 Wish there were more! I realized I hadn‘t read a book for #TBRtarot (my own challenge, too 😂), and this (sort of) fits! Phew 😅
I am a giant scaredy cat, I can no longer handle anything horror-like but for some reason I LOVE Simone St James! I think I have read everything she‘s written and it‘s all because her book The Sundown Motel had a cover that I could not get over. Sometimes the cover is EVERYTHING
This novella is packed with suspense, tension, an unreliable narrator, a moving timeline, things that go bump in the night, it was AWESOME! #sundaybuddyread
It was okay. I just wanted more and probably would have liked this better as an actual novel as opposed to a novella.
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Even though this was a novella and not a full-length novel, St. James developed the story more than enough for me to get invested in the characters. Ginette moves to 19 Howard Street, then becomes unable to leave the house. She sits in front of her window & makes up stories about the neighbors she sees but can't meet. At night, there's a terrible scratching noise from the basement, but she's called the police and there's nothing actually there.
Started this for #sundaybuddyread and because it‘s Simone St. James it‘s broad daylight and away from the door
Plans this afternoon 🖤 #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
🤫ðŸ¤See you Sunday to discuss the whole novella!
Everyone welcome!
St James certainly knows how to write a ghost story and this one does not disappoint! A woman moves into a house in a small town then finds she cannot leave the house. She watches her neighbors and makes up stories about them, but then the sounds in the night start. I really enjoyed this and found the ending quite satisfying. #sundaybuddyread
Was it smart to stay up late to finish this in one sitting? No
Was it worth it? Absolutely
Everything you want in a St James story in a delicious little morsel! Bravo!
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I don‘t want to say too much about this because #SundayBuddyRead folks aren‘t discussing it until the end of the month. Overall it was a low pick for me. I think if it had been written by someone else I would‘ve enjoyed the reading experience & not thought too deeply about it, but I ADORE Simone St. James, so I had extremely high expectations. It included some funny scenes & some spooky ones, but I don‘t think novella is her format. #JoyousJanuary
I was really excited about this one because I LOVED Book of Cold Cases. But I did not like this book. I would have bailed if it wouldn‘t have just ended. My copy from #libby had about 30 pages left when the story ended and I was scrolling though thinking I had to have missed something. It felt like more of a synopsis of a story than an actual story.
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January 29 novella discussion everyone welcome 🖤
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Novella discussion January 29 🖤ðŸ¤
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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD January 29 DISCUSSION
Novella discussion January 29 🖤ðŸ¤
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712245/ghost-19-by-simone-st-james/
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Discussion for this novella JANUARY 29
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NOVELLA DISCUSSION JANUARY 29
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712245/ghost-19-by-simone-st-james/
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THE LAST WEEKEND OF JANUARY 2023
– discussion Jan 29, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-19-Simone-St-James-ebook/dp/B0B5YYY7QF/ref=nodl_?dp...
Novella due out on kindle January 3, 2023
Is out on audio now
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I really enjoyed this ghost story from one of my favorite authors. The fear of being trapped, of seeing things and not knowing if the things were real or not moved this story right along. Definitely the perfect read for the season. #scarathlon #TeamMonsterMash #spookoween #bookspinbingo #littenlisten #31by31