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I am so happy you picked Simone St. James for #authorofthemonth @Soubhiville ! I really enjoy ready her books. The tagged book was short and sweet!

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I‘m not very enamored with the whole “woman in her house alone losing her mind and spying on neighbors” subgenre of thrillers, so this unsurprisingly was just okay for me.

After a breakdown, an actress moves to the suburbs but something sinister won‘t let her leave the house she‘s renting, so she spies on her neighbors. Can she find a way to escape? Spoiler alert 😉 yes, but not before she uncovers the mystery! #AuthorAMonth

Loved this spooky novella from Simone St. James! It has serious Rear Window vibes and is the perfect October read! #authoramonth #October @Soubhiville #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Checked off another bucket list item - audiobook walk to see neighbors‘ Halloween decor. My area always goes big this time of year. My kind of people. 😅👻🧟‍♂️😱 #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall

Not sure if this was a product of it being a short “novella” or not knowing what the focus should be (a commentary on misogyny against “hysterical” women or actual mental illness) but I kept thinking another penny would drop. No dice. This was bewildering. My first from this #AuthorAMonth author but many say its not indicative of her writing. I hope that‘s true. 😰 #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall

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The tagged book is sitting in my Libby audiobook queue waiting on me to finish this Stephen King chunk and get to it. 😆😅 Will tackle that next because it‘s short. Hopefully Friday. 💖 #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall #AuthorAMonth

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I loved this creepy novella! It felt like a Rear Window retelling with a supernatural addition.

Try this one; you won't be disappointed. 👻

1️⃣0️⃣ The Four Winds ➡️ 1️⃣1️⃣ Ghost 19

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
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.

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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. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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?🤷🏻‍♀️
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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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

🖤❤🤐
Rear Window + ghosts

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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

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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#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD January 29 DISCUSSION

Novella discussion January 29 🖤🤐

Everyone welcome