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Tag: The Haunting of Hill House

My Fiction Books of 2020

On December 25, 2020December 14, 2020 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

Merry Christmas!!! I hope you are having a wonderful time with your loved ones, even if due to circumstances known, it has to be done remotely. Weird year as it was it is finally time to sum things up and see the back of it! When the pandemic hit Europe I fell into a complete …

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Happy Halloween Reading

On October 31, 2020April 19, 2021 By bookskepticIn Thoughts1 Comment

I know that all the Halloween reading challenges have probably officially run their course today and typically I am late to the party. The reason for this is I rarely read scary books, but I decided to dig through my past posts to see how rarely really? Well, it turns out really very rarely. But …

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The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

On April 15, 2020March 25, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews5 Comments

I read this one back in January, when the Christmas lights were waning, days were short, nights dark and cold and the epidemic seemed a very distant idea, happening on another continent. I remember sitting on my couch with my knees tucked, under a blanket. And clearly with a weird expression on my face, as …

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Q1 2020 round-up

On April 1, 2020June 20, 2020 By bookskepticIn ThoughtsLeave a comment

The first quarter of 2020 finished. The new decade has begun with a real bang. By now I think we've all had a chance to experience the lockdown and some of us maybe even got used to it. I hope you are all safe and sound. It still surprises me how much the world can …

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