false 289601 8 In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen, terrified but intrigued, is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess. 2596896 21 9 2005 A Certain Slant of Light total:2139|5:680|4:798|3:480|2:125|1:56| 2139 8338 3701 444 5 5 false false Sun Aug 24 07:26:58 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 07:27:54 -0700 2008 Someone was looking at me, a disturing sensation if you're dead. I was with my teacher, Mr Brown. As usual, we were in our classroom, that safe and wooden-walled box - the windows opening onto the grassy field to the west, the fading flag standing in the chalk dusty corner, the television set mo...more...]]> 4 5 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 09:39:28 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 10:15:37 -0700 2007
It's a ghost story, but not a scary one. Helen has been dead for 130 years and remembers only that she was a woman who had been ma...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 12:10:39 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 15:17:52 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 05 17:31:27 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 17:32:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 21:42:35 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 23:02:10 -0700 2007 Helen is a ghost who has been dead for 130 years, and has haunted a series of people. She is in the high school classroom of the teacher she is currently haunting, when a boy in the class sees her. She is amazed and freaked out be...more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 11:01:01 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 13:45:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 08 14:03:12 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:05:14 -0800 2009 4 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Sep 20 22:42:42 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 22:42:42 -0700 2007 I liked the idea of a ghost being attached to a living person, and acting as a muse. And I liked the creepy stuff - if someone checks out for a while because of trauma, something else, either a ghost or som...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 11 12:43:31 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 12:44:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 20 12:20:44 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 12:21:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Mar 13 12:14:59 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 12:15:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:52:24 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 14:59:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 22:39:49 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 22:40:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 25 05:10:50 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 05:10:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 23:01:34 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 00:59:27 -0800 2008 I received this as a belated birthday gift from my friend Barbara, who had previously recommended it to me saying that the heroine reminded her of me. Now she might have been referri...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 22:19:50 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 23:39:04 -0800 2009
I don't know what happened after that. It almost seemed like an...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 21:03:22 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 21:21:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 19 09:07:59 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:54:39 -0700 2009
I absolutely loved James and Hele...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 27 19:36:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 19:36:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 24 03:55:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 14:02:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=289601