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On strangers, haunted houses, and delightfully creepy novels:
Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger is set in the 1940s rural town of Warwichshire, and is narrated by the county physician, Dr. Faraday.  One summers day, Dr. Faraday is called to Hundreds Hall, an old and large estate, to attend to a young maid pretending to be sick. [...]

On new year’s resolutions, the TBR shelves, the book beast, old and new friends, and magazine madness:
A word:  I’m terrible at New Year’s Resolutions.  The only year I’ve ever stuck with my resolution is in 2001 when I vowed to follow Polonius’ advice, “To thine own self be true.”  That was the year I graduated [...]

On ash trees, whistles, cathedrals, garden mazes, and ghost stories:
Well, I polished off Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James last night.  I finished this book so quickly that I didn’t even have time to add it to my “currently reading list.”  I’ve already summarized most of the stories in this collection in [...]

On the Times’ 100 notables of 2009:
Yesterday was a big, fat no man’s land day for me.  I wasn’t a part of the rampaging crowds mobbing the stores on the Black Friday (just the thought of it gives me goosebumps *shivers*) and obviously I didn’t post.  What did I do yesterday?  Read.  I’m pretty sure [...]

On haunted scrap-books, lost orphans (and hearts), and the changing mezzotint:
It was the internet that kept me away yesterday!  Really.  Around 3 pm, my internet decided it didn’t want to work and went kaput.  It was out for the rest of the night and decided to work again early this morning.  Clearly, my internet and [...]

On seven (!) new additions to the TBR shelf:
This week was a good week for book-buying.  I’m so excited about the books I got this week that it makes me sad that I don’t/can’t read all of my books as fast as I buy them.  Still, it’s nice to be able to look at them [...]

Today has been a blah day, and I can’t think of anything especially interesting to post about.  The only great thing about today was the fact that I received my copy of Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James in the mail.  I read the first story as soon as I got it [...]

I know Halloween was almost two weeks ago, but once I start reading creepy tales for the month of October I always find it hard to stop.  There’s something about the whole winding-down of the year that makes reading shiver-inducing tales impossible to resist, which is why I just read my very first M.R. James [...]