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Riddance
Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children | Shelley Jackson
Shelley Jackson is a writer of such extraordinary, uncanny power that the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I encounter her work. What an exhilarating, prickling, blistering book Riddance is! I made myself read it as slowly as possible in order to stay in as long as I could. Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble: Stories The first new novel in twelve years from Half Life author Shelley Jackson, Riddance is a disquieting supernatural investigation into life after death Eleven-year-old Jane Grandison, tormented by her stutter, sits in the back seat of a car, letter in hand inviting her to live and study at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children. Founded in 1890 by Headmistress Sybil Joines, the school at first glance is a sanctuary for children seeking to cure their speech impediments. Inspired by her haunted and tragic childhood, the Headmistress has other ideas. Pioneering the field of necrophysics, the Headmistress harnesses the gift she and her students possess. Through their stutters, together they have the ability to channel ghostly voices communicating from the land of the dead, a realm the Headmistress herself visits at will. Things change for the school and the Headmistress when a student disappears, attracting attention from parents and police alike. Set in the overlapping worlds of the living and the dead, Shelley Jacksons Riddance is an illuminated novel told through theoretical writings in necrophysics, the Headmistresss dispatches from the land of the dead, and Janes evolving life as Joiness new stenographer and central figure in the Vocational Schools mysterious present, as well as its future.
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SconsinBookyBadger
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Alexa, bring me a cup of coffee please. I seemed to have gotten myself trapped by the cat.

Happy New Year everyone! 🥳 What is your 1st 2021 book?

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Bibliobear

“A book is a block of frozen moments--of time without time, which can nonetheless be reintroduced to time, by a reader who runs her attention over it at the speed of living.“

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“If speech was made of such spiky characters it did not surprise me that they got caught up in my throat and tangled up in one another. The marvel was to see them in such quiet and orderly ranks upon the plot of the page. One thought of cemeteries. Perhaps it was their spirits that rose, silent and vaporous, to the reader's mind. The reader was then God, bent avidly over the charnel ground, inhaling souls.“

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AlizaApp
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Nice and creepy Victorian gothic novel about a school where children who stutter learn to channel the voices of the dead. Told through letters, documents, photos, and other ephemera.

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Bamazin
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1. Riddance
2. Slytherin
3. You
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

rachelsbrittain Thanks for joining in 💚💚 6y
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emtobiasz
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Checked out Classic Lines bookstore in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh today. They were out of the Edward Gorey biography I was looking for to gift a friend, but luckily they had plenty of other books. I went with the tagged book, which isn‘t getting rave reviews from Littens but sounds right up my friend‘s alley.

Cinfhen Enjoy! Looks like a lovely bookshop 6y
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Bamazin
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Had the best time at the Portland book festival! Met several local writers and a few big celebrity writers and got 10, yes 10! autographed books!!!!
#saturday #bookhaul #pdxbookfest #wordstock2018 #portlandbookfestival

gradcat You did well, and I love all those pix! 6y
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What a cool night! Out of the many events going on tonight I took a chance on the one for Shelley Jackson‘s new book (B E A U T I F U L BTW), and I‘m glad I did.

She‘s such a cool woman, with weird thoughts that make such an intricate book. I mean, just look at how she personalized my copy!! I‘d picked up a library copy yesterday but it was too lovely not to buy for myself.

britt_brooke 😍 6y
GripLitGrl 😍😍😎 6y
emilyhaldi So cool ❣️ 6y
LauraJ Impressive! Glad you decided to treat yo‘ self! 6y
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