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Eggp is finished with Ghost
95. Helen Simpson - The Festival of the Immortals, 2 stars. Elderly women catch up at literary festival.
96. Fay Weldon - Grandpa's Ghost, 3 stars. Unresolved family issues make an unhappy and unwanted home.
97. James Robertson - Ghost, 1 star. Woman sees some wind in the garden.
Jun 20, 2018 08:01PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 98% done with Ghost
91. Ben Okri - Belonging, 2 stars. Man enjoys his mistaken identity.
92. Adam Marek - Dinner of the Dead Alumni, 3 stars. Man stalks woman while his wife struggles with their twins.
93. Michael Marshall Smith - Sad, Dark Thing, stars. Lonely man takes the wrong road, comes home with something.
94. Joanne Rush - Guests, 4 stars. Husband goes away for work, his work shows up at home.
Jun 20, 2018 10:17AM Add a comment
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Eggp is 95% done with Ghost
87. Haruki Murakami - The Mirror, 2 stars. Man recalls a late night encounter.
88. Lydia Davis - The Strangers, 1 star. People show up and eat your food.
89. Annie Proulx - The Sagebrush Kid, 4 stars. Lonely couple care for anthropomorphic plant.
90. Jackie Kay - The White Cot, 3 stars. Menopausal woman has an emotional holiday.
Jun 20, 2018 08:13AM Add a comment
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Eggp is 92% done with Ghost
83. Kelly Link - The Specialist's Hat, 2 stars. Creepy twins in creepy poet's old creepy house.
84. Phyllis Alesia Perry - Stigmata [extract], 2 stars. Girl has visions of the past.
85. Ali Smith - The Hanging Girl, 3 stars. Woman feels something following her.
86. Kate Atkinson - Temporal Anomaly, 3 stars. Woman hangs around after car accident.
Jun 20, 2018 06:54AM Add a comment
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Eggp is 88% done with Ghost
79. Kazuo Ishiguro - The Gourmet, 3 stars. Man with exotic taste seeks something otherworldly.
80. Tananarive Due - Prologue, 1963, 3 stars. Nana takes very good care of her grandson.
81. Joyce Carol Oates - Nobody Knows My Name, 2 stars. Big sister isn't impressed with new baby.
82. Hilary Mantel - Terminus, 2 stars. Looking for dad in the usual places.
Jun 19, 2018 10:17PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 82% done with Ghost
75. Louise Erdrich - Fleur, 4 stars. Cursed(?) girl gets work at a butcher's shop.
76. Tim O'Brien - The Lives of the Dead, 3 stars. The one that got away was nine years old.
77. Jewelle Gomez - Off-Broadway: 1971, 3 stars. Vampire makes a new pal.
78. Angela Carter - Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost, 3 stars. Three versions of Cinderella.
Jun 19, 2018 08:30PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 76% done with Ghost
71. J.G. Ballard - The Dead Astronaut, 5 stars. Obsessed woman wants to collect astronaut's remains.
72. Robert Nye - Randal, 4 stars. Sisters share a hot bath after an unsatisfactory meal.
73. Ruth Rendell - The Vinegar Mother, stars. Child's holiday with well-off friend goes awry.
74. William Trevor - The Death of Peggy Meehan, 3 stars. Sheltered child dreams death of classmate.
Jun 19, 2018 06:41PM Add a comment
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Eggp
Eggp is 72% done with Ghost
Wiki: "He wouldn’t just steal your eggs. Or your hen. Not Gregor MacGregor. Ambitious, he was. Steal your eggs and your hen. That was Gregor."
Jun 19, 2018 03:25PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 72% done with Ghost
67. Elizabeth Taylor - Poor Girl, 3 stars. Governess becomes infatuated.
68. Richard Brautigan - Memory of a Girl, 1 star. An insurance building has trees around it.
69. Tove Jansson - Black-White, 2 stars. Illustrator spends time away from his wife.
70. Stephen King - The Mangler, 3 stars. Bloodthirsty machine created by unfortunate series of events.
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Eggp is 67% done with Ghost
63. Flann O'Brien - Two in One, 4 stars. Taxidermy apprentice takes feud too far.
64. Yukio Mishima - Swaddling Clothes, 2 stars. Woman can't stop thinking about improperly wrapped newborn.
65. Rosemary Timperley - Harry, 4 stars. Little girl has creepy imaginary friend.
66. Muriel Spark - The Girl I Left Behind Me, 4 stars. Office girl forgets something at work.
Jun 19, 2018 09:03AM Add a comment
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Eggp is 64% done with Ghost
58. Elizabeth Bowen - The Demon Lover, 4 stars. A long-forgotten promise is kept.
59. Sir Alec Guinness - Money for Jam, 2 stars. Dangerous storm ruins simple plan.
60. Stevie Smith - Is There a Life Beyond the Gravy?, 2 stars. Surreal relatives visit uncle.
61. Ray Bradbury - Mars is Heaven/The Third Expedition, 5 stars. [2016]
62. Shirley Jackson - The Tooth, stars. Tripping balls before/after dental procedure.
Jun 18, 2018 07:34PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 58% done with Ghost
Wiki: "...the ring left by a vase on the top of the escritoire; the bruise in the wallpaper where, on the door being thrown open widely..."

Jun 18, 2018 03:28PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 57% done with Ghost
54. Franz Kafka - The Hunter Gracchus, 1 star. Dead guy has a little chat.
55. Zora Neale Hurston - High Walker and Bloody Bones, 1 star. Don't run your mouth.
56. Dylan Thomas - The Vest, 2 stars. Pervert hurts woman.
57. W. Somerset Maugham - A Man from Glasgow, 3 stars. Scotsman hears someone laughing.
Jun 18, 2018 10:35AM Add a comment
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Eggp
Eggp is 55% done with Ghost
49. D.H. Lawrence - The Rocking-Horse Winner, 3 stars. Son has a talent for playing the ponies.
50. Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House, 1 star. Utter nonsense re: a ghost couple.
51. P.G. Wodehouse - Honeysuckle Cottage, 4 stars. Crime writer falls under a soppy influence.
52. Graham Greene - The Second Death, 3 stars. Playboy fears what's on the other side.
53. William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily, 4 stars. [2017]
Jun 17, 2018 07:54PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 18% done with Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
Wiki: "...she was forcibly reminded of the old conundrum that starts, 'All Cretans are liars.'"
Jun 13, 2018 10:36AM Add a comment
Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)

Eggp
Eggp is 17% done with A Room With a View
"It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. Poems had been written to illustrate this point."
Jun 12, 2018 10:37AM Add a comment
A Room With a View

Eggp
Eggp is 50% done with Ghost
43. Arthur Machen - The Bowmen, 2 stars. Soldier calls for help.
44. Saki - The Open Window, 4 stars. Attention seeker meets an interesting girl.
45. Edith Wharton - The Lady's Maid's Bell, 3 stars. Sickly maid gets a new job.
47. Richmal Crompton - The Ghost, 3 stars. Troublemaker is admired by elderly relative.
48. May Sinclair - The Nature of the Evidence, 3 stars. Lusty widower remarries unsuitable girl.
Jun 11, 2018 06:04AM Add a comment
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Eggp is 46% done with Ghost
39. F. Marion Crawford - The Doll's Ghost, 3 stars. Doll doctor is too emotionally invested in his patients.
40. E.F. Benson - The Room in the Tower, 3 stars. Man finally lives out his reoccurring dream.
41. Richard Middleton - On the Brighton Road, 2 stars. Hobo is kind to a young looking fellow traveler.
42. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - How it Happened, 3 stars. Man tests new car against the advice of his servant.
Jun 04, 2018 08:09AM Add a comment
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Eggp
Eggp is 57% done with Over the River (The Forsyte Chronicles, #9)
Wiki: "Ah! I’ve always longed to know what a posset is."
Jun 01, 2018 07:43AM Add a comment
Over the River (The Forsyte Chronicles, #9)

Eggp
Eggp is 40% done with Over the River (The Forsyte Chronicles, #9)
Wiki: "He thought of pleasant things: Broadstairs, his small daughter’s back hair, oyster patties, his favourite ‘star’ in little but a corset belt, and his own nightcap of hot whisky and lemon."

Broadstairs > Bleak House
May 31, 2018 07:52PM Add a comment
Over the River (The Forsyte Chronicles, #9)

Eggp
Eggp is 6% done with Over the River (The Forsyte Chronicles, #9)
Wiki: "Dinny took the last thing out of the trunk. It was a pot of antiphlogistine."
May 30, 2018 07:22PM Add a comment
Over the River (The Forsyte Chronicles, #9)

Eggp
Eggp is 43% done with Ghost
33. Mary Wilkins Freeman - The Wind in the Rose-Bush, 4 stars. Aunt comes into money and travels to collect orphaned niece.
34. Guy de Maupassant - A Tress of Hair, 3 stars. Man finds some hair, obsesses.
36. Mary Austin - The Readjustment, 2 stars. Woman dies, makes her presence felt.
38. Oliver Onions - The Rocker, 2 stars. Gypsy mother spots old woman's little visitor.
May 25, 2018 08:38AM Add a comment
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Eggp is 39% done with Ghost
29. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw, 4 stars. The classic "be careful what you wish for" story.
30. Jonas Lie - Elias and the Draug, 3 stars. Father royally pisses off a wereseal.
31. Émile Zola - Angeline or The Haunted House, 1 star. Man hears conflicting stories about haunted house.
32. H.G. Wells - The Inexperienced Ghost, 2 stars. Friends don't believe chum's ghostly encounter.
May 23, 2018 07:58AM Add a comment
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Eggp
Eggp is 36% done with Ghost
Wiki: "...it was none other than the Draug himself who sat steering his half-boat alongside his and who had lured him on to destruction..."
May 22, 2018 11:44PM Add a comment
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Eggp is 79% done with The Changeling
Wiki: "But the youngest, Askeladden, didn’t even wait for the sun to rise before going out to the woods."
May 17, 2018 06:32AM Add a comment
The Changeling

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Eggp is 31% done with The Changeling
Well, that's not what I was expecting, and ditto: "Remarkable to think his inner circle consisted of only four human beings."
May 16, 2018 09:37AM Add a comment
The Changeling

Eggp
Eggp is 26% done with The Changeling
Little spike of dread at “Chains?”, loving it.
May 16, 2018 09:10AM Add a comment
The Changeling

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Eggp is 35% done with Ghost
23. Rudyard Kipling - My Own True Ghost Story, 2 stars. Englishman thinks he's encountered an English ghost.
24. E. Nesbit - John Charrington's Wedding, 4 stars. Unlikely groom keeps his promises.
25. Robert Louis Stevenson - Thrawn Janet, 1 star. Young minister thinks he knows everything.
27. Jerome K. Jerome - The Dancing Partner, 2 stars. Toy maker designs waltzing robot.
May 14, 2018 10:29AM Add a comment
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Eggp is 32% done with Ghost
Word: "There are, in this land, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveler passes."

1. Like pobs; pulpy, swollen

pobs

1. Pieces of bread soaked in hot milk used as a comfort food for children during illness
May 14, 2018 08:42AM Add a comment
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