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U is for Unsettled

U is for Unsettled

Welcome to Day 20 of Blogging A to Z! Be sure to visit the other participating blogs. You can find them here. Book-ish Ghosts Throughout the April challenge, you get to guess the ghost novel, ghost movie, or ghost beginning with the letter of the day. You can find Book-ish Ghosts contest rules here in the theme reveal. U is for Unsettled Welcome back! We are now in our final week of Blogging A to Z. Thank you for hanging in and…

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Ghost Novel Review: The Turn of the Screw

Ghost Novel Review: The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Publisher: Dover Thrift, 87 pages Format: Paperback Source: Purchased What it’s about: Perhaps you know the gist of the story: naïve, love-starved governess seeks countryside post teaching suspiciously angelic children who are wards of a handsome, mysterious, unavailable (emotionally as well as geographically) landowner. The novella opens in a fireside gathering of friends eager to share ghost stories. The women are particularly thirsting for bloody and gory narratives. The host explains the…

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