Break Cheryl’s book drought: Suggestions part two
I like this suggestion because I love Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White: It’s one of those books that you didn’t know you’d like, so when you start falling into it, you’re completely surprised. It’s been a few years since I read it, though, but I know I have it — on, I’m going to guess, a bedroom bookshelf where I sometimes place books that are about to move up the line to the bedside table stack.
Maybe I should read it again.
From Kristen Hands:
–The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Even though it’s 600+ pages and Victorian (gasp!), there is nothing pretentious about this story. I read it over a long weekend this summer and only stopped reading when my eyes burned too bad to keep reading. It was written as a magazine serial, so there are plenty of cliffhangers. I believe it is credited as one of the first mysteries.
The characters are wonderful. Marion, the heroine is one of the most likeable characters in all of literature. There is also a ppenniless hero, a suspected poisoning, a siniter Count, a lady in distress, ain inheritance up for grabs, English country estates, a mysterious ghostly figure, a fire and one of the best plot twists I have ever read. Read the “customer reviews” on it at amazon.com. FUN reading, I tell you.
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