Stephanie Copeland, president and CEO of The Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic home in Lenox, Massachusetts, has announced that there is a new blog chronicling the efforts to save the estate, which is facing financial difficulties. At helpsavethemount.blogspot.com, bibliophiles are invited to share their stories about visiting The Mount. Visit www.edithwharton.org for more information about fundraising efforts and to make a pledge.
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#currentlyreading A retelling of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE set in Pakistan in the early 2000s, UNMARRIAGEABLE is a fun, clever story. A plus: The main character, Alys, is an English teacher, and there are references to classic and contemporary books sprinkled throughout the narrative. “It was a truth universally acknowledged, Alys suddenly thought with a smile, that people enter our lives in order to recommend reads.”
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Of course! Plus a couple of back-up books.
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These suspenseful tales are completely different stories but share a South Seas connection.
CASTLE OF WATER is about two plane crash survivors—Barry Bleecker, an American banker turned aspiring painter, and Sophie Ducel, a French architect on her honeymoon and whose husband perished in the crash—stranded far from civilization on an island the size of a city block. The descriptions of what the castaways experience, physically and mentally, as they struggle to survive are so harrowing and seemingly realistic that it almost put me off visiting the South Pacific. Not really, it’s still high on my travel bucket list, although I couldn’t help but wonder how I would fare in a similar situation.
In SOMETHING IN THE WATER, a British couple’s honeymoon in Bora Bora takes a startling turn. While on a scuba diving expedition, Erin and Mark come across an object floating in the ocean and must decide what to do with it. The decision is a risky one, and danger stalks them even after they flee the island and return home to London. The narrative leads back to the dramatic opening scene, revealing how Erin came to be digging a grave in the woods.
Both are recommended if you’re looking for compelling, fast-paced reads. For me, they were riveting enough to distract from severe tooth pain.
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October 25, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Karenne Saylor
I visited the Mount in May 2009 and recently wrote about the visit on my blog. I visited two days in a row, one of them during the Friday night “ghost” tour. In my blog entry, I didn’t mention the tour, although I did have an experience while I was standing outside of the old sewing room, near the elevator. I caught it on a digital recorder and others (including Molly) heard the sound. It was directly below her office.
I will be adding a literary blog entry about Edith Wharton very soon. I have to gather my thoughts first, in order to write a scholarly essay.
October 26, 2009 at 1:24 pm
noveldestinations
What an eerie experience! I really enjoyed the post on your blog about your visit to the Mount, especially all of the photos of the interior.