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The Northwoods Chronicles: A Novel in Stories
by
Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads Author)
Hardcover, 259 pages
Published
August 1st 2008
by Five Star (ME)
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The Northwoods Chronicles by Elizabeth Engstrom
Author website: http://www.elizabethengstrom.com
Genre: Horror fiction
Grade: C+
Very short plot summary: Little kids keep being abducted at a predictable rate in the northern lake resort town of White Pines Junction. Everyone in White Pines has uncanny success at whatever he/she chooses to do, but the price of success is the sacrifice of the children to the unknown force abducting them.
I'm about 7/8 through this book at the current moment. It's a nove...more
Author website: http://www.elizabethengstrom.com
Genre: Horror fiction
Grade: C+
Very short plot summary: Little kids keep being abducted at a predictable rate in the northern lake resort town of White Pines Junction. Everyone in White Pines has uncanny success at whatever he/she chooses to do, but the price of success is the sacrifice of the children to the unknown force abducting them.
I'm about 7/8 through this book at the current moment. It's a nove...more
This collection of twenty short stories centers on a town called White Pine Junction which is in Northwoods. Each is a little off kilter and interesting. It was a hard collection to put down
None of the stories are particularly deep, none plumb the depths of the human condition. Instead they traipse around an idea, an occurrence, a landmark—and deliver a witty tale of surreality. Each seems to hint at some otherness to the area these people live in.
At the beginning of it all, children disappear....more
None of the stories are particularly deep, none plumb the depths of the human condition. Instead they traipse around an idea, an occurrence, a landmark—and deliver a witty tale of surreality. Each seems to hint at some otherness to the area these people live in.
At the beginning of it all, children disappear....more
This is an interwoven collection of stories about the folks living in a rural village in the Pacific Northwest, where very eerie things happen, and most of them aren't good. Like the town The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff, this is a place where children disappear on a regular basis. No one knows where they go or why, but folks just sort of put up with it, because life is so good in the Northwoods.
Other creepy things happen as well - horrible dreams that come true, nasty killings, and other supe...more
Other creepy things happen as well - horrible dreams that come true, nasty killings, and other supe...more
A collection of short stories about White Pines - a small town that relies on summer tourism and fishing for its livelihood, and whose pines and lakes are hiding a few tales.
The stories are evocative, a little off kilter and very engaging. In the first one, you discover that a child under 12 is taken every year--just vanishes--and and no one in the town knows where they go or why. In one of my favourites, a woman fights her attraction to a rich man who comes to fish every year, knowing that it w...more
The stories are evocative, a little off kilter and very engaging. In the first one, you discover that a child under 12 is taken every year--just vanishes--and and no one in the town knows where they go or why. In one of my favourites, a woman fights her attraction to a rich man who comes to fish every year, knowing that it w...more
This novel-in-stories opens with a haunting short story of acceptance of an inexplicable supernatural situation or pattern of occurrences. If you think you might like to read this book, read the first story and see if the writing doesn’t pull you right in. The narrator’s straight-forward voice and simple phrasing tell so much more than his mere words alone. With this story, the scene is well and truly set.
Each story is like another bizzarely shaped piece of a jigsaw puzzle, the final outcome of
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I love these stories! Beautifully written, each one is woven into a novel that explores the dark woods in more ways than one. There's so much to enjoy here, such a variety of real emotional and moral dilemmas, a great cast of offbeat and eccentric characters, and stories that just ring true, even in their most extraordinary moments. Engstrom's Northwoods is a place and a book I'll be revisiting. Highly recommended!
Sometimes Engstrom's work is classified as "horror stories." Only if you're afraid of probing the human experience, only if the notion of surrealism frightens you. Her books are truly haunting because her writing is so memorable.
Definitely different, a very weird book, but I still couldn't stop reading it. I think I was waiting for it to all come together, it didn't. :)
Not my usual genre of book, but it certainly held my attention. Very creepy (yet interesting) and I may have nightmares tonight.
good book. can't say I'd live in the northwoods, but... will read more of her books.
Elizabeth Engstrom is a good friend of mine, and she is a wonderful writer. Spending hours with her is always worth the time both in print and in person. The Northwoods Chronicles took me into her dark woods for a little fishing and wondering about the hearts and actions of human beings. There, I watched as she wove together the warp and woof of a tapestry of lives that included the joys of love and the heartbreak of deepest losses. Always a moving experience to live with her people for a little...more
absolutely LOVED it!
Wow. I stumbled across this when I was looking for short books to hit my 2008 goal. It's a series of short stories, really, from different characters in the same town where, every year, a child disappears. Just vanishes. In one case, right out of a man's arms. Weird things happen in the Northwoods area. It's like a less crass, more literary Stephen King story. I loved it.
This was an exquisite collection of interrelated short stories!
This book was not what I thought it was going to be. While it was interesting it was also strange and very unlike most books I usually read. This is not a terrible book but I would definitely not read it again.
I loved this book. It is made up of short stories in which the characters all weave together. Hard to put down.
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Elizabeth (Liz) Engstrom grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois (a Chicago suburb where she lived with her father) and Kaysville, Utah (north of Salt Lake City, where she lived with her mother). After graduating from high school in Illinois, she ventured west in a serious search for acceptable weather, eventually settling in Honolulu. She attended college and worked as an advertising copywriter.
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