What did you read this year?
Adam’s
average rating for
2024
3.3
3.3
Oh boy, this book impacted me on a number of fronts. Black Spring, a small town in rural NY, is haunted by a 300+ year old witch. Yes, it is a problem, but she's the people of the town have come to an uneasy way of living with the witch. Outsiders are subtly turned away while townies are cursed to never leave town for long.
It isn't hard to imagine my local town as Black Spring. I live outside a small town of a few thousand in a rural, some might ...more
It isn't hard to imagine my local town as Black Spring. I live outside a small town of a few thousand in a rural, some might ...more
After watching the Denis Villeneuve movies our family was excited to read the source material. I was first to heft the nearly 900 page monstrosity that was book one. I was excited to see what extra bits of detail the book would flesh out that fell to the cutting room floor. In that regard I found the Atreides family relationship with Gurney Halleck more fully described, and I have a much better understanding of the character of Thufir Hawat. Ther
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