Posted on 12/30/2014
"The Original Gone Girl: On Daphne Du Maurier and Her Rebecca”
"The Gothic Life and Times of Horace Walpole"
"The Plath Resolution"
Otherwise most of the year was just book book book fakakta book, but I loved getting to write these.
By: Eleanor Catton,
on 11/28/2014
At Powell's, we feel the holidays are the perfect time to share our love of books with those close to us. For this special blog series, we reached out to authors featured in our Holiday Gift Guide to learn about their own experiences with book giving during this bountiful time of year. Today's featured giver [...]
Posted on 9/23/2014
A hangover aside from researching this essay on Daphne du Maurier: In one of her letters to her publisher, she was updating him on how her novel was going and said something like, “Creation boils within me.” She was not a grandiose kind of writer, and in the context of the letter it reads like she was just truly taken up with the exhilaration of what she was working on. It’s become one of my favorite things to say lately when I’m working on the book and padding around the house in my yoga pants or standing at the sink eating peanut butter from the jar and hoping the UPS dude can’t see me when he comes onto the porch to drop off a package. Creation Boils Within Me. Creation A Watched Pot Within Me. Creation At A Low Simmer Within Me. Etc. etc.
Posted on 9/19/2014
Du Maurier called the house her “rat-filled ruin.” It wasn’t hyperbole. Rats, dozens of them, scuttled along the house’s floors at night. Bats flit in and out. It was freezing, too, even by the stoic standards of the time, and damp, with a hard, nipping cold rising off the sea. Scarves and hats were routinely worn indoors.
— I wrote about Daphne du Maurier and the Manderley estate she bought with her Rebecca $ at the new Gawker Review of Books! It was so much fun to write—I’ve loved du Maurier forever and wanted to write about her life since coming across this picture of her last year.
Ridley Pearson is a New York Times best-selling author with over 45 novels published in 22 languages in 70 countries. He has had his novels adapted to both network television and the stage. Ridley has earned a reputation for writing fiction that "grips the imagination."
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By: Casey (The Bookish Type),
on 11/1/2011
WHY DID A SPOT OPEN UP AT MANDERLEY ACADEMY?
I hadn't wanted to go, but my parents were so excited…. So here I am, the new girl at Manderley, a true fish out of water. But mine's not the name on everyone's lips. Oh, no.
It's Becca Normandy they can't stop talking about. Perfect, beautiful Becca. She went missing at the end of last year, leaving a spot open at Manderley-the spot that I got. And everyone acts like it's my fault that infallible, beloved Becca is gone and has been replaced by not perfect, completely fallible, unknown Me.
Then, there's the name on my lips-Max Holloway. Becca's ex. The one boy I should avoid, but can't. Thing is, it seems like he wants me, too. But the memory of Becca is always between us. And as much I'm starting to like it at Manderley, I can't help but think she's out there, somewhere, wat11 Comments on Waiting on Wednesday: New Girl by Paige Harbison, last added: 11/3/2011Display Comments Add a Comment
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By: Bridget Whelan,
on 8/4/2011
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Wow, this sounds really, really great. Have to add this to my to-read list immediately.
Thank you so much for sharing,
Carina @ Fictional Distraction
Very interesting book! The cover looks intriguing. Great pick! Thank you for sharing!
Sam
This one sounds really good! I hope it's as good as it sounds!
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Krazyyme @ Young Readers
I haven't read Rebecca but I'm really intrigued by it it's been on my TBR list for months. This one sounds wonderful as well.
Giselle
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This one sounds good! Thanks for sharing.
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I haven't read Rebecca, so I'll still have the element of surprise, luckily! New Girl sounds really creepy! Definitely looking forward to it. :)
WOW. I love the blurb for this book. Sounds wonderful. Great choice. Come visit me as well.
Livre De Amour-Books of Love Blog
Is this a companion novel to Rebecca? Sounds like it. This sounds creeptastic, and I'm going a little gag for the possible romance (really, is that anything new? Wait, how would you know? *lol*). Excellente.
- Asher (from Paranormal Indulgence)
how did you get the NaNoWriMo word count button thingy? I can't find it!! :D
LOL, I've read this description before and apparently didn't clue into the fact that it was a retelling of Rebecca. *facepalm* Now I am definitely more interested!!
@eden -- I found the word count bar here: http://www.languageisavirus.com/nanowrimo/word-meter.html
They should have one up on the NaNo site eventually, but so far no dice :\