Monthly Archives: July 2008

we have always lived in the castle — shirley jackson

524 stars

Mary Kather­ine (‘Mer­ri­cat’) Black­wood lives, together with her older sis­ter Con­stance and Uncle Julian, in a castle, long ago bought by her ances­tors. It is a beau­ti­ful and mighty cas­tle, but some­thing hor­ri­ble hap­pened eight years ago and that is why the fences and cas­tle doors are closed for all (town) peo­ple. Mary Kather­ine has to go to town twice a week for gro­ceries and has her own rit­ual to go around there, because oth­er­wise she gets lost in hate­ful sneers and looks of the town peo­ple. The rest of the time the Black­woods are cut of from every­day life, but they like it that way.
Until, one day cousin Charles appears at the doorsteps of the cas­tle. His inten­tions are clear for Mary Kather­ine, but Con­stance is dragged into Charles’s mind­set and all that has hap­pened eight years ago is com­ing back to the service.

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July 19, 2008 – 20:23 | By eb | Posted in classics, horror, into movies, recommendations | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

northanger abbey — jane austen

5 stars

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July 19, 2008 – 20:13 | By eb | Posted in classics, recommendations, romance | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

sterrenmeisje has grown up…

Hi,

Maybe you already noticed, but I have a new domain for all my book reviews: the other book review. I thought it was time to leave ster­ren­meisje behind for my reviews, they deserve a place of their own, with a name that already explained what is hap­pen­ing on my site, with­out a big ques­tion­mark as to what ster­ren­meisje means.

So if you hap­pened to have my reviews site book­marked, please change it in your favorites.

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July 17, 2008 – 08:57 | By eb | Posted in news | Tagged , , | Comments (0)