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AUTHOR Goodman, Carol
TITLE The Lake of Dead Languages
DATE READ 10/27/19
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2002/BBC Audio Books/12 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 161/111;
GROUP READ WIM
TIME/PLACE Early 2000's / NY
CHARACTERS Jane Hudson, one-time student of Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks and now returned as a Latin teacher
COMMENTS I may have read this when it came out … but did not remember it. Set in upstate NY i ...more
TITLE The Lake of Dead Languages
DATE READ 10/27/19
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2002/BBC Audio Books/12 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 161/111;
GROUP READ WIM
TIME/PLACE Early 2000's / NY
CHARACTERS Jane Hudson, one-time student of Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks and now returned as a Latin teacher
COMMENTS I may have read this when it came out … but did not remember it. Set in upstate NY i ...more
I've seen this book compared to
The Secret History, a book I loved.
I enjoyed solving the mysteries of
the book and I enjoyed the Latin
words and phrases that added depth
to the book.
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The Secret History, a book I loved.
I enjoyed solving the mysteries of
the book and I enjoyed the Latin
words and phrases that added depth
to the book.
...more
I like her books, but I figured out what was going to happen way before the end this time :( As a result, I actually refrained from reading the end first.
Eerie, heart-breaking, and exquisitely written.
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