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In the vein of Mary Downing Hahn (but not quite as creepy), comes a story that becomes unsettling. Celeste is going to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy. Right away things are ‘off‘ - lights turn on and off, the old house seems to sigh and whisper, and Celeste sees her dead aunt‘s creepy face in the mirror…

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I FINALLY finished a book this month! This was a mildly creepy middle grade horror novel with big lessons on racism and facing your fears. Well-written and engaging, it‘s perfectly narrated by Bahni Turpin.

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Read 1 poetry bk. per month.
Houses
Time & the weather wear away the houses our fathers built.Their ghostly furniture remains:All the sad sofas we have stained with tears of boredom & guilt,
The fraying mottos,the stopped clocks..& still sometimes these tired shapes haunt the damp parlors of the heart.
What Sunday prisons they recall,& what miraculous escapes !

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I think my favourite of this series of chapbooks (so far). The story centres on a writer asked to judge an essay competition. When the winner withdraws the essay from publication, she is suspicious, thinking that the government has censored the author. Speaking to the author, and their family, brings up wider issues of censorship, kidnapped and assassinated authors.

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I read all the words, I did not understand their significance when gathered. There were snippets of pretty word pictures, there were an exhaustive amount of references to blue and it's shades and items that feature blue, like sea and sky, also much mention of love and some of death, and I think mermaids. Poetry is still hit and miss for me, and this was a miss.
⚠️Vague allusion to suicide, unflattering depiction of sex worker as metaphor

?? To quote one of my favourites from CCR: "feelin' blue".

I‘m used to Nigel Tranter‘s books being set in the distant past, so it was a bit jarring for this one to be set in the present day, or at least the present day at the time of publication. Eventually I did settle in and found this a good book. I wouldn‘t really consider this a book for learning about the history of the Stone, as I thought it might be from the summary. It‘s a light adventure story, I guess, with a satisfying resolution.