I haven’t read a lot of books lately. I’ve been concentrating mainly on Harry Potter fan fiction. I did read a lot in the past, however, and I intend to read a lot more in the future. Over the past… Read More ›
diane setterfield
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 28
Favourite Quote From A Book I am actually going to include more than one quote here, but I think it should be acceptable because they are all from the same book – The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: Quote 1:… Read More ›
Vida Winter in ‘The Thirteenth Tale’ by Diane Setherfield
“Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born…yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that… Read More ›
Diane Setterfield in ‘The Thirteenth Tale’
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is a exception to this… Read More ›
Diane Setterfield in ‘The Thirteenth Tale’
“What succour, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in a chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom… Read More ›
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Opening Sentence:It was November. Synopsis:I opened the door and was about to step into the emptiness when, in a voice hoarse with something like fear, she launched the words that stopped me in my tracks. ‘Once upon a time there… Read More ›
Books I Read In September 2008
Bless the Child by Cathy Cash Spellman The Haunted Burial Ground (Sweet Valley Twins Super Chiller) by Francine Pascal The Second Horror (99 Fear Street: The House of Evil) by R.L. Stine No More Clutter: How to Clear Your Space… Read More ›
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 