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kimbalina
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Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
I am looking for some good reads for FALL- Maybe historic Salem type books, of Ghost books... Fiction -
I am not really sure- but would love some ideas for must reads for fall!
Thanks in Advance!
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Posted 8/22/10 5:36 PM  |
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LemonHead
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
Sends a shiver up my spine just thinking about it!! LOVED it.
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| Posted 8/22/10 9:04 PM |
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kimbalina
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Posted by faithann
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
Sends a shiver up my spine just thinking about it!! LOVED it.
Thank you! I will look it up 
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| Posted 8/23/10 9:54 AM |
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LemonHead
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Definitely update once you read it. 
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| Posted 8/23/10 12:23 PM |
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OffWithHerHead23
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Posted by kimbalina
Posted by faithann
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
Sends a shiver up my spine just thinking about it!! LOVED it.
Thank you! I will look it up
Ha ha, when I read the post I was going to recommend this book as well! Definitely a CREEPY read!
There was a Jodie Picoult book that was spooky too... can't remember the name of it, though.
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| Posted 8/24/10 6:57 PM |
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sugar-magnolia
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Not historic, but The Historian was creepy. My dad is loving The Passage.
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| Posted 8/24/10 9:20 PM |
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kimbalina
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Thanks for the ideas!!
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| Posted 8/24/10 9:39 PM |
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eddiesmommy
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Oh, try Forever by Pete Hamill - it was SO GOOD!
From Amazon:
This novel demands that the reader immediately suspend disbelief, but if this summons is heeded the reward will be a superior tale told by Hamill (Snow in August; A Drinking Life) in the cadence of the master storyteller. The year is 1741 and this is the story of Cormac O'Connor-"Irish, and a Jew"-who grows up in Ireland under English Protestant rule and is secretly schooled in Gaelic religion, myth and language. Seeking to avenge the murder of his father by the Earl of Warren, he follows the trail of the earl to New York City. On board ship, Cormac befriends African slave Kongo, and once in New York, the two join a rebellion against the British. After the rising is quelled, mobs take to the streets and Kongo is seized. Cormac saves Kongo from death, but is shot in the process. His recovery takes a miraculous turn when Kongo's dead priestess, Tomora, appears and grants Cormac eternal life and youth-so long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan, thus the "Forever" of the title. What follows is a portrait of the "city of memory of which Cormac was the only citizen." Cormac fights in the American Revolution, sups with Boss Tweed (in a very sympathetic portrait) and lives into the New York of 2001. In that year he warily falls in love with Delfina, a streetwise Dominican ("That was the curse attached to the gift: You buried everyone you loved"), and comes into contact with a descendant of the Earl of Warren, the newspaper publisher Willie Warren. His love, his drive for revenge and his very desire to exist are fatefully challenged on the eve and the day of September 11. This rousing, ambitious work is beautifully woven around historical events and characters, but it is Hamill's passionate pursuit of justice and compassion-Celtic in foundation-that distinguishes this tale of New York City and its myriad peoples.
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| Posted 8/25/10 4:04 PM |
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kimbalina
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Posted by eddiesmommy
Oh, try Forever by Pete Hamill - it was SO GOOD!
peoples.
Thank you Melissa!
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| Posted 8/26/10 7:20 PM |
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Posted by kimbalina
Posted by eddiesmommy
Oh, try Forever by Pete Hamill - it was SO GOOD!
peoples.
Thank you Melissa!
This was a wonderful book- I have read so many duds lately that I've been thinking about just rereading old faves, and this would be one of them.
Also The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane was pretty good- set in Salem and goes back and forth between past and present.
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| Posted 8/30/10 7:57 AM |
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evrythng4areason
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
it's a play, but i love the crucible if you haven't read it
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| Posted 9/22/10 11:21 PM |
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Its an oldie but I'm now reading The Shining by Stephen King....I love it so far.
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| Posted 11/4/10 5:10 PM |
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eddiesmommy
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
Posted by MrsProfessor
Posted by kimbalina
Posted by eddiesmommy
Oh, try Forever by Pete Hamill - it was SO GOOD!
peoples.
Thank you Melissa!
This was a wonderful book- I have read so many duds lately that I've been thinking about just rereading old faves, and this would be one of them.
Also The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane was pretty good- set in Salem and goes back and forth between past and present.
Just read the Physick Book of Deliverance Dane bc Mrs Professor recommended it here......ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS EVER NOW! You should totally read this, if you are still looking for ideas. It was FANTASTIC!
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| Posted 11/5/10 12:50 PM |
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kimbalina
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Kim
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Re: Fall / Ghost / Historic / Books ?
I fell into a reading rut and haven't picked up a book in a month! So back to the library I go!
Thanks again. I will look into the new ideas also! 
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| Posted 11/5/10 2:30 PM |
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