For over 20 years, Hill House has been uninhabited---by humans, that is. The house is widely known as being uninviting, and Dr. Montague, being the scholar that he is, is determined to find evidence of a haunting. Along with Luke, the future heir of Hill House, Dr. Montague invites two women to stay in the house and . . .
The Blackwoods have lived in the house upon the hill for generations. There used to be more Blackwoods, but now there's only three: Mary Katherine (who goes by Merricat), her sister Constance, and their Uncle Julian. The other Blackwoods were killed years ago by poison, a crime Constance was accused of and then acquitted. But the people in the . . .
Is it just me, or do you feel like a 40-year-old woman sitting alone in an apartment petting her cat and drinking coffee when you read Jane Austen? It's probably just me. I mean, to be fair, I'm a 20-year-old woman sitting alone in a dorm room petting her cat and drinking coffee, so I'm…
Hey guys! It's my first book review of 2017 and I made sure to make it a good one. Oscar Wilde has been one of my favorite writers for a while now and I've finally gotten around to reading his infamous The Picture of Dorian Gray. I picked this up two years ago in Canada and it's…
Title: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Publisher: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones Publication Date: 1818 Rating: 3.5 stars Opening Line: St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17 -- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil…
