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Finished: **Lost Ghosts, by Mary Wilkins Freeman** (ed. S.T. Joshi), a collection intended to bring together all of her ghost stories and supernatural fiction. The editor erred on the side of completeness, which I respect, but frankly a few of them were pretty glurgey and better off forgotten. There are several quite good ones, though (even setting aside two or three of her best-known entries, that I’d previously read elsewhere):
– “The Wind in the Rose-Bush”: comparable to “The Yellow Wallpaper” in gaslighting creepiness, but more explicitly supernatural.
– “The Vacant Lot”: for another comparison to a more famous author, this one can best be summed up as “‘The Canterville Ghost,’ if the newly moved-in family couldn’t hack it in the haunted house and ran like hell.”
– “The Southwest Chamber”: the plot of this one was pretty conventional, but the way that it was integrated with the underlying themes of family divisions and resentment made it stand out.
Working on: **Cowboys and East Indians, by Nina McConigley**, a short story collection set in Wyoming
Fear, by Thich Nhat Hanh
If he were still alive and I were at Plum Village I would totally pick his brain in a lot of topics.
No books finished this week.
Started:
*Words of Radiance* by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight Archive #2). Started this one because I saw a lot of people re-reading books in the series haha. Due to its size it will take me a while to get through this, but I already feel like this picks up sooner than TWOK. Really enjoying it.
For contrast I’m also listening to *A Court of Thorns and Roses* by Sarah J Maas, as that was included with my audible membership. The narrator however is terrible and sounds like an AI voice, so I’m not sure if I will actually continue with it.
Parked:
*An Ember in the Ashes* by Sabaa Tahir (kindle). Got bored at around 32% in so I put it aside. Apparently it will be more of the same so I’m thinking of DNF’ing this one.
Finished Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
Started Lonesome Dove
Finished
**Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries 4 by Martha Wells**
Started
**A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway**