08-14-2008, 06:19 AM
Desdemona Wrote:I'll start with a great book I just finished called The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I really, really enjoyed it. It is a book written for fans of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights The Turn of the Screw, Wilkie Collins'' books, and any other recognizable Gothic or ghost story. It kept me entertained, it puzzled me, it tricked me, and it moved me. The author is clearly a voracious reader and lover of the whole art of reading. AND IT'S A GREAT MYSTERY!
I read this earlier this summer. I enjoyed it up until the end, which I think let the whole book down on its implausibility. But as you say, Setterfield is clearly a voracious reader, and also an aficionado of the genre. I enjoyed the many references she had to classic books in the genre.