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novella, Thanks for your assessment of the Faber book. I haven't read it, but it made me think of one I did just read. Beth Gutcheon's More than You Know also contains a "gothic element." It's the story of the lives of two women in two different time periods in the same Maine village...

I haven't read her other book--The Hiding Place. I'd be interested to know what others thought of it.

I'm sure this is too late to help with your trip, but another south Florida author is Randy Wayne White--haven't read him, but his books sound very interesting (action/thrillers, I think). Zora Neal Hurston's classic is Their Eyes Were Watching God--a wonderful and important novel, though I...

I'm going to steal a thread idea from another book forum I recently visited. I'm wondering what "book destinations" folks have visited--pilgrimages to the homes/graves of favorite authors? To the scenes of favorite novels? A couple of years ago, I visited the village founded in the 1840s by...

I recently read Trezza Azzopardi's Remember Me . One of those books that draws you into a mesmerizing sense of being within a single character's life experience. It struck me--if I may make a cross-Atlantic leap--as having similarities to Marilyn Robinson's Housekeeping . Both follow a girl's...

audreybree, Let me know what you think of it! I especially like the way that Gutcheon weaves together the stories of the characters so that they also reveal the history of the region and the changes that the region has undergone. I'll be discussing the book with my book club next week.

I recently read Beth Gutcheon's More than You Know --my first Gutcheon novel. It's a hard-to-categorize book--part coming-of-age, part romance, part ghost story. I very much enjoyed Gutcheon's multi-generational portrayal of a Maine fishing village. I also thought Gutcheon did a marvelous job...

Hello from Minnesota where, on April 1, the ice is nearly off the lakes, the crocuses are emerging, and our town just finished a "community read" of a book by a Minnesota author--Jon Hassler's Staggerford . My newly-formed book club will soon be discussing Beth Gutcheon's More than You Know ...

John Gray's "Children Are from Heaven." Gray sometimes makes grand, philosophical statements that ring false. Nonetheless, I found his _practical_ advice very thought-provoking. For example, he discussed various temperaments and how best to nurture and respond to each child based on their...