pickBooks & bookstores, power of a sentence, booksellers as essential workers, indigenous language. End=reading list. Tookie bursts from first few pages like a whisky- & adrenaline-fueled rocket. A bookish ghost wants in. Louise herself pops up in a bookseller cameo. Yes, lags & sags in parts, but a lack of focus & some disoriented haunting fits a pandemic year novel. A warmth to these characters even as they wander. The door is open. Go. 2021
Wonderful characters! Also, the novel captured very well the emotions that many of us went through in 2020. #tob2022
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JASPER PEACOCK hits the Amazon Kindle Best Seller List #44 in Horror Short Stories and #60 in 45-Minute Literature & Fiction Short Reads. Review: “There is much talk of ghosts. Ghosts in Peacock‘s paintings, ghosts that harm, ghosts that haunt. A short, spooky, little story, five stars!“ Priscilla Bettis, author of The Hay Bale. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PJXGPZX #mysteries #shortstories #fiction #thrillers #AmazonKindle #kindle
pickI really enjoyed Erdrich‘s take on a ghost story.. it involves a bookstore. Also, this is the first story I‘ve read that has involved pandemic times, that I haven‘t felt absolutely exhausted by.. she addressed the last 2+years in just the right way(s)
“ Suspicion, I discovered,works like a lens.Once you have looked through it, and seen everything you thought you knew in a different way, its version of the truth does not recede. Once you can see through that lens, you can no longer ignore it.”
Also, I love when a character has my name :) - poor Eliza in this story is a bullied weird little girl
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I am loving it so far! Its got a bunch of really important topics. I remember how horrible being a pre-teen was!
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Whenever I visit Harwich on the Cape, coffee at the Snowy Owl & a book or two from the Owl‘s next door neighbor, Brewster Book Store is THE ritual. So many memories of a multitude of coffee klatch‘s with my sibs & books we purchased. After all, we must support indie bookstores & coffee shops! The next generation of adults also participates. 📚💜☕️
pickBefore this book I had only read one other Erdrich book. Now I want to read them all. 💚
Tookie was such a fun character. I loved her view on things, her no nonsense attitude, and her general love of literature. I feel like years from now people will read this because of its commentary on the pandemic, George Floyd's murder, and even the election, although she does avoid too much political talk.
