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Setterfield, Diane

The Thirteenth Tale

Setterfield, Diane
This wonderful Gothic novel was recommended by Orson Scott Card. I loved it, even though I am not familiar with Jane Eyre.

Words I Had To Look Up:

amanuesis (pg. 97) -- One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.

Quote:

As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good order. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. For it must be very lonely being dead. (pg. 17)

Read:

11/2008

Read Again:

6/2016
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