Kind of an odd book. Boylen isn't that much older than me, but grew up in such a different world, it's hard to make sense of all the pieces of her memoir put together. I found myself questioning, “is this real?“ a lot. But she has a dry, Vonnegut-esque sense of humor, and there's an underlying poignancy that touched me very much. It's interesting as sort of a period piece and heartbreaking as a story about family.
In those days, my friends and I listened to everything--classical, traditional Irish, Javanese gamelan, cool jazz, Indian raga, Frank Zappa, Gregorian chants, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The only thing completely off our radar was disco, which we assumed appealed exclusively to the stupid. Inevitably, it's disco that people now associate with the era of my adolescence.
pickEveryday Lives. Ghostly Tales.
Real Ghost Stories Online share the most haunting accounts from their podcast.
Great book for the spooky season. Glad I read this during the day. Some of these stories were scary.
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pick#HauntsAndHexes Day 18: #Scream(ing) Staircase is the first book in the Lockwood & Co. series. Jonathan Stroud never fails - exquisite balance between plot and character, depth and British humor at its finest. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-aEj
4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie was a wonderful warming read with quirky characters, comedy and of course, the Jane Marple.
Current read is collection of shorts from https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41170, and finally reading something by Margaret Oliphant, Hoffmann and MR James.
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pickThis is heartwarming and lovely. A little ghost lives alone in an attic until the little girl downstairs encroaches on his territory. Slowly, he comes to realize that having a friend is not so scary after all. I really liked the charcoal illustrations.
it‘s a boo-tiful
day — look around, find beauty
in your surroundings. 🧡🖤🧡
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pickWhenever I'm having a bad book slump, I turn to graphic novels. I love ghosts and thought the cover of the first book was so wholesome. The story drew me in and I found myself caring about what would happen to Marjorie and Wendell. Eliza was a great addition and her story deeply emotional. However, Marjorie felt flat as a character. There was little to show who she was, why she liked Wendell and Eliza, etc. Overall, great story with a mediocre MC.
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