For those who follow, you know I am taking a break from Shocking Pink Thread. However, part of the reason is so that I can focus on the other blogs that mean something more to me right now, including this one!
I never started "The Thirteenth Tale" last week. I decided to read "Where Angels Fear to Tread" instead and I'm about halfway through. I expect to finish it today or tomorrow so my book for the next week (or two) will be "The Thirteenth Tale". Christie gave this book to Grama last year for Christmas and I wanted to read it then. It's taken me this long (more than a year!) to get to it.
Cindy asked last week what the book was about so I'm cheating. I went to Amazon and looked at the reviews. This one makes me even more excited to read the book since Gothic romance is one of my favorite genres:
"Vida Winter, England's most famous and reclusive writer, is nearing the end, and before she goes she wants her amazing life story to be recorded for posterity. For this, she engages a lonely young biographer, Margaret Lea, who has a few secrets of her own. When these two forceful women meet, the stage is set for an ever-mounting series of shocking surprises. I've always been a fan of the Gothic style of romantic mystery, and some of my favorite authors are the Brontës, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, and Robert Goddard. If you share my love of windswept moors, bleak houses and strange families, you're in for a real treat. THE THIRTEENTH TALE is a masterful, deliberately old-fashioned story of secrets, ghosts, sexual obsession, murder, madness--you name it, and it's here. This is a beautiful book. I'm going to give copies to a few friends, and I plan to read it again. The only other books I've actually read twice are GREAT EXPECTATIONS, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and REBECCA. What else can I say? Enjoy. "
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This is an awesome book! I've read it twice, actually. It was good both times- even though I knew what was going to happen! I hope you enjoy it!
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