#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
Do you enjoy reading scary stories?
What types of stories are scariest to you—ghost stories, thriller, horror…?
Did you find this story particularly scary?
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Do you enjoy reading scary stories?
What types of stories are scariest to you—ghost stories, thriller, horror…?
Did you find this story particularly scary?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
From the setup through to the end, did the plot work for you?
What did you think of the logical/theoretical explanation the narrator inserts before the final resolution of the story?
What did you think of the discovery at the end? Was the resolution satisfying to you?
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LMM often mentions Bulwer-Lytton as an author she enjoys. He‘s famous for the line: “It was a dark and stormy night” and has a bad-writing contest named after him! (www.bulwer-lytton.com/)
Did you like Bulwer-Lytton‘s writing style in this story? Why or why not?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead: This week we‘re reading an #LMMAdjacent book—The Haunted & the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton—with a discussion on Saturday, Nov. 2nd. This is a shorter one: my Kindle edition is 68 pages. All are welcome—let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!
In the comments I‘ll add LMM‘s thoughts about this story⤵️
The wanton Boy that kills the Fly
Shall feel the Spider‘s enmity.
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I‘m not going to finish this. The writing is amazing and the descriptions just wonderful. However I find myself really having to concentrate to read it. Set me wondering if these great authors of fine literature will get read in the future. I heard that at an uni in the US literature students couldn‘t even read a whole book. So used to just reading a chapter to critique from high school. Never a whole book. 🤷🏻♂️. 🥲
Recent birthday acquisitions:
📖 Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life by Ralph Pite
📖 The Poetical Works of John Keats
#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead
I don‘t think this has ever happened to me but I didn‘t enjoy any of the stories or perhaps I didn‘t get what kind of stories Swift wants to tell?England is the one I liked the most bc of its premise:a coast guard in Exmoor on his way to work in the early morning hours stops to help a driver gone off road because of a deer but how the story evolves&the ending were dissatisfying as I just don‘t understand what it‘s about.Well written but not for me
A farcical story about a middle age man Douglas who tells his wife he is going to Scotland fishing but sets of on an artistic groups visit to Moscow with his lover the flamboyant actress Nina, who then appears to be permanently avoiding him. His journey around 1980s Russia with the other members and the authoritive olga makes for a strange tale of misadventures. Enjoyable, strange ending, as ever Bainbridge is a great storyteller but not my fave
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation (Revised and Enlarged) edited by Vincent F. Hopper
📖 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead