I loved reading this book. It’s a very well told story, innocuous you may think, but it packs a bunch once the truth is revealed…Kind of creepy without being frightening. It has a Gothic house, family tensions and a narrator who you realise eventually, is unreliable. Vivien and Ginny are two sist...
I have mixed feelings about this book. The abundance of information about moths was overwhelming; I understand the literary purposes, and I recognize that the author is a documentary filmmaker, but I finally just had to skim those parts. Too much! Ironically, while I have decided that the main ch...
I kept reading in hopes that something would happen, but the ending was so dissapointing! This book was WAY too heavy on the moth information and WAY too light on information about the characters! I just finished this book and I am actually angry. There is no real ending. We can assume, I guess, ...
(2.5 stars) Almost quit this several times: first, because the moths were so boring. Second, because *everything* was so boring. Do I care to listen to the narrator's detailed descriptions of how her bed sheets should be tucked in, or whatever inanimate object she is preoccupied by for pages on...
For a ludicrous moment I think of the curators and wonder if they’ve arrived already. We finished our lunch an hour and a half ago and since then I’ve been here, picking off the dried mud from my slippers that I wore outside when I followed Vivien to church this morning. She retired to the study ...