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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Start date: October 1, 2016

Finish date: October 31, 2016

Why we're reading this: October 2016 Old School Group Read
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Oct 08, 2016 Melanti rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016, e-book, classics, horror, audiobook, short-story-novella, group-reads, audible-channels

I read this back in middle school and had forgotten almost everything about it other than the final chase scene - and even that, I'm sure, was more me remembering pop-culture's version of it than the original text.

This is an October group read, and I'm glad several people in the group mentioned that it wasn't action packed, nor especially scary. Knowing that let me sit back and enjoy all the descriptions and characters rather than wondering when the ghost story was going to start.

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Oct 01, 2014 Diana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, audio-books, classics, horror

Listening to Tom Mison read it is much more preferable to when I had to read it with my 4th grade class.

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Sep 21, 2013 Diana rated it really liked it

Shelves: short-stories, school-reads, classics, horror

I read this in maybe 4th grade and I probably really enjoyed it because afterwards I was all things Sleepy Hollow.
I'd love to reread this sometime but when I tried a couple of years ago I couldn't get in to it. That's also when I realized that I had already read it. But seeing as how I did like it the first time, even if I had forgotten about it, I do want to try it again. Even if my opinion does change. ...more

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