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the audio book is fantastic! i really, really enjoyed the descriptive narration throughout, discussing love of books, scenery, feelings....
it did stall in a few places, but picked up again. i was quite enthralled with the story so i didn't mind too much. really enjoyed the secondary characters as well. it's darker than i was aware of when i picked up the book to read as part of a GR's group book choice. but i really liked the ending and all the mysteries. definitely one you mu ...more
the audio book is fantastic! i really, really enjoyed the descriptive narration throughout, discussing love of books, scenery, feelings....
it did stall in a few places, but picked up again. i was quite enthralled with the story so i didn't mind too much. really enjoyed the secondary characters as well. it's darker than i was aware of when i picked up the book to read as part of a GR's group book choice. but i really liked the ending and all the mysteries. definitely one you mu ...more
The Thirteenth Tale is told in the creaky and creepy old tradition of Victorian gothic novels. Basically its main premise is that an elderly popular fiction writer, Vida Winter, is approaching the end of her days, and has invited a quiet, reserved, almost repressed woman, Margaret Lea, to come and write her biography...the elusive thirteenth tale. Margaret Lea, by the way, works with her father in their antiquarian bookshop and is a book-lover extraordinaire.
Margaret moves in to Vida's large ma ...more
Margaret moves in to Vida's large ma ...more
Aug 08, 2011
Anne
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It's a very intriguing story about a complex family.
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Probably more 3.5 stars.
Sep 24, 2011
Alisha
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