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I always struggle to get comfortable in an Edith Wharton book. I don‘t dislike her but I never find it to be enjoyable reading. Something about her style. 🤷‍♀️

ENJOYED READING GHOSTS STORIES BY MY FAVORITE AUTHOR #audiophile #readinggoal #

I‘ve learned a bit more about Wharton, thanks to her home The Mount‘s virtual ghost tours the last two years…I had not realized she wrote ghost stories until taking part in the tour!

This collection has some spooky (to me) storylines and some not too spooky but definitely bizarre. I enjoyed this collection as a fascinating look at early 20th century ghost stories, from an author who has greater acclaim with her stories about opulence and greed.

In these powerful, elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman''s reputation. Brittany conjures ancient cruelties, Dorset witnesses a retrospective haunting and a New York club cushions an elderly aesthete as he tells of ghastly eyes haunting his nights.

Wharton's stories feature fairly well-mannered ghosts, realistic in their inscrutability but not exactly scary. Many stories started promisingly but didn't quite deliver. I most liked "Kerfol", "The Looking Glass", and "All Souls'".

10 theme stories + 1 Halloween story, so 175 + 1 point, and one step closer to a bingo, as I jumble challenges together.
#scarathlon2020 #TeamHarkness @StayCurious #bookspinbingo #screamathon @TheAromaofBooks

Spotted on my morning walk. Some of our neighbors are way more committed to Halloween decorating than I am. They also have a second giant spider and a stack of mannequin parts, presumably to represent the remnants of spider dining.

"'Do you believe in ghosts?' is the pointless question often addressed by those who are incapable of feeling ghostly influences to---I will not say the *ghost-seer,* always a rare bird, but---the *ghost-feeler*, the person sensible of invisible currents of being in certain places and at certain hours." (From Wharton's Preface)

"It was the autumn after I had the typhoid." (From the first story)

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Enjoying the evening watching RJ Jacobs, Joe Hill and Paul Tremblay in conversation on the Southern Festival of Books Youtube (next 2 weeks check out the schedule online) and starting my October classics read Edith Wharton‘s Ghost Stories🎃

Ghost stories for Christmas: Read in Book Riot: https://apple.news/AIJLDkF7NTeWcq6S_-flvNA

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#wintergames #tmskellington @crimson613 @clwojick @staycurious

One of my favorite read this time of year is Edith Wharton‘s #Ghost Stories.

#chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon @Clwojick

I love Edith Wharton, and I love a good ghost story, so this book was right up my alley. This well-worn collection started on a #LMPBC journey almost a year ago, and now I can reread gothic spookiness with some fun comments from friends! 👻

#screamathonphotochallenge

My first Wharton, maybe not characteristic of her other writing.
I‘m not much of a horror fan but I do enjoy suspense & stories that might involve the unexplained. Some stories themselves were unexplained, unresolved, or so open to interpretation there continues to be uncertainty as to what had happened.
I enjoyed the atmospheric writing and misdirection or plot twists (not so much plot twists as twists in characters‘ ideas of what is happening).

Bedtime reading on some nights.
“He swung about when I came in, and looked me over in a trice. I knew what the look meant, from having experienced it once or twice in my former places. Then he turned his back on me and went on talking to his wife; and I knew what that meant, too. I was not the kind of morsel he was after. “The Lady‘s Maid‘s Bell” from 1902.

Still reading round 4 Group F 🖤 #LMPBC it‘s been an interesting read but it keeps putting me to sleep. Which is a little nice, since last month, I was having trouble sleeping.
In other news, I think I might have found the best way to describe my gender:
“the whatnot in a corner”
I‘ll have this in the mail by the end of the week, sorry about the delay

A few regulars at the work ask me what I‘m reading.
I told one of my favorites that I was going to start Eudora Welty‘s Ghost Stories. In my mind I was thinking these were Willa Cather‘s Ghost Stories.
I am terrible with names, and so it goes.
My brain may be a mess, but my roommate is not at home and I am lucky to have the day off so I‘m diving in to someone‘s Ghost Stories for the last of round 4 #LMPBC group F 🖤 to group F.

I finished for my Litsy markup. I wouldn't have chosen it for my own so I'm glad @sprainedbrain chose it for us to read. I have come to enjoy these ladies and I'm sort of depressed that I only have one more book to read with them. @arubabookwoman @jmofo

#PopSugar2019 5/50 a ghost story
ReadHarder 0/24
#LitsyAtoZ 5/26 @BookishMarginalia
Booked2019 1/24
Chunsters 2/10
Worldreading challenge 0/52

I am getting a kick out of @arubabookwoman 's comments. I love getting to know all of my Litsy pals through mail and book swaps and challenges. This book is full of ambiguity so I'm enjoying using my creative chops to make up the back stories. Thank you @sprainedbrain for choosing this one. All four of us chose something radically different and it is so much fun. On to you next @jmofo. Probably early next week

'The tall windows are like blind eyes, the great door is a shut mouth.'

Finally finished this selection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories. They're a mixed bunch - more robust and muscular, less ambiguous, than those of Henry James, but oddly powerful. The best are those, like 'Afterwards', 'All Souls' and 'Pomegranate Seeds', where knowing exactly what has taken place doesn't diminish the strangeness and fright she's built up. Shivering.

Oh my! Look what came in the mail: The #LMPBC book from #sprainedbrain along with some book-related goodies. Thanks so much Jenni.
I read the first story last night, and all I can say is I‘m puzzled...
#Butterfinger #Buddenbrooks was sent to you last week and I hope you ‘ve received it by now.

@jmofo @Butterfinger @sprainedbrain

Finished my selection for #LMPBC round 4 already!

Some of these stories are truly creepy, and some left me feeling sad. Edith Wharton wrote human conflict so well, and many of these stories show that. There are gothic-feeling stories with haunted houses, lots of slowly-building tension, and suspense for days.

I really think with this many stories, there is something for everyone here. Hope you all enjoy it, Group F!

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Cuddled in by the fire and ignoring the library book I picked up this afternoon to indulge in some ghost stories for these last two spooky evenings of October. @nu-bibliophile I can't be stopped!

Some (hopefully) scary #shortstories from my tbr shelf. I‘m saving these for October, when I try to read as much creepy stuff as possible, while pretending I‘m not a big weenie. 😱

#readingwomenmonth

Almost forgot to post this! Thanks for the tag @ReadOrDieRachel

1. Forty something
2. Yes, two
3. No
4. In the middle of several books but to name one, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
5. Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
6.👍🏼
7. Supercilious
8. I'm not really sure, I'm an open book
9. Dog lover
10. I enjoy all but I NEED coffee
11. The Imperfectionists
12. If you'd like to partake consider yourself tagged!

#Hallowhoareyoy @Gyldholm

Went to my local used book store and snagged this book I‘ve wanted to read for a while. I love book hunting with no particular book in mind. You never know what you‘ll find. Happy Friday!

I feel like Edith Wharton and I would have been friends.

Very good Victorian ghost stories! Still scary after ALL these years. And so well written. Perfect shorts for this time of year.

Some of the writing in this short story collection is just beautiful...

Trying to pick a book to read, and want something with a bit of an autumnal feel - I've narrowed it down to 3 contenders now...

This book seems like the perfect read for a fall Saturday night. #OctoberReads #Halloween #EdithWharton

Some #shortstories on my fall TBR. #30daysofreadathon

I love #shortstories - I may in fact be obsessed 😮 This is about a tenth of my collection ❤

Fabulously creepy illustrations. I want to go back to the days when novels were illustrated.

Rainy days call for ghost stories