Happy Tuesday, friends! The Broke and the Bookish are, as ever, hosting a Top Ten Tuesday, and I love the question for this week: Ten Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed (less love, more love, complicated feelings, indifference, thought it was great in a genre until you became more well read in that genre etc.) I couldn’t think of ten — my initial responses to most of the books I read continue to hold true on rereads — but here are six, anyway! 1. Emma, by Jane Austen – I think the problem here is that I…
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Published 20 Jul 2009
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Gin Jenny
Creeeepy. I read The Haunting of Hill House and liked it a lot, but when I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, I thought, “Oh, yes, there’s the lady who wrote ‘The Lottery’.” There are some of the same themes here, particularly towards the end, that mob mentality and the fear of things being different. My review’s going to contain spoilers, because I don’t know how to talk about the book without any spoilers at all. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is about two sisters, Merricat and Constance, who live with their uncle Julian, the three…
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