Fiction

raccoon

(31,434 posts) Thu Aug 4, 2016, 09:17 AM Aug 2016

I'm listening to THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE, and I'm about halfway through.

I like it better than I expected.

Something about Hawthorne's writing is just kinda....creepy. Like things are just a little bit off.

I remember a short story he wrote about some elderly people who thought they looked young but in the mirror their reflections were of elderly people. This book is kind of like that--people are not what they seem to be.

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I'm listening to THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE, and I'm about halfway through. (Original Post) raccoon Aug 2016 OP

How interesting! hermetic Aug 2016 #1

Not Librivox but I'll have to look into that and see if my library offers it. nt raccoon Aug 2016 #2

hermetic

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1. How interesting!

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Fri Aug 5, 2016, 01:41 PM

Aug 2016

Are you listening to this through LibriVox? I see my library offers this but I haven't tried it yet. This might be a good place to start, though.

I did not know the Transcendental movement was active here in the 1800s. Sounds like a very intriguing story. Thanks for sharing.

raccoon

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2. Not Librivox but I'll have to look into that and see if my library offers it. nt

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Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:24 AM

Aug 2016

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