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The Hotel
The Hotel: From the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author | Daisy Johnson
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A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations - yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore. On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women... They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.
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RaeLovesToRead
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I've been so busy making videos about the International Booker lately that I've neglected reading for myself.

So I'm going to use @Liz_M 's #14books14weeks challenge as an opportunity to read some stuff that I want to read purely for Rae 💙

I decided to choose only from hardbacks that I feel frustrated at having neglected for so long.

Here are my choices 💕

Now where to even start????????

vivastory I see 6 here that I def want to read. Difficult choice! 2w
RaeLovesToRead @vivastory Which 6?????? 2w
vivastory Will of the Many, Titanium Noir, Death at the Sanatorium, Private Rites, God of the Woods, City & Its Uncertain Walls 2w
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RaeLovesToRead @vivastory I have a friend who is obsessed with Will of the Many so that is going to be a big priority! I also need some cheerful stuff so I'll probably pick the lighter stuff first 2w
vivastory I've heard only great things about it. The plot sounds like a Roman version of Traitor Baru Cormorant 2w
BarbaraBB Great stack Rae! 2w
Liz_M This is an excellent use of the challenge! Good luck on choosing one to start. 😁 2w
sarahbarnes Great stack! I loved Private Rites and am very curious about the Johnson and the new Murakami. 2w
RaeLovesToRead @BarbaraBB Why thank you! 😊 Check me out bragging about my stacks haha 2w
RaeLovesToRead @Liz_M I'm actually excited. This year I've been reading a lot of heavy stuff (and also light stuff that isn't my jam) so I'm hoping this will be fun!!!! 2w
RaeLovesToRead @sarahbarnes I really hope I like Private Rites because I loved Our Wives. (Also, I have it with both UK and US covers!) 2w
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lauraisntwilder
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This was a short collection of subtly interconnected stories set in and around a haunted hotel. It's more spooky than scary, which is what I like. Not my favorite Daisy Johnson, but still good!

sarahbarnes I haven‘t read these but love her two novels. 1mo
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andrew61
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I picked this up in the library and it is an excellently scary set of tales based in a haunted hotel on the fens. The underlying them is treatment of women over the years from the opening images of a woman blamed by villagers for children's deaths by plague, to hotel staff being mauled by lascivious men. The reading was enhanced by my then listening to the BBC series which came first + led to the book. Definitely worth reading and enjoyably creepy

LeahBergen Stacked! 2mo
Cathythoughts I‘m stacking too 👍🏻 2mo
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VRM1975
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