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The Ghost Notebooks
by Ben Dolnick
I'm not sure how to categorize this book. A ghost marital drama? Self exploration wrapped in literary horror? When I got to the last page I set it down feeling confused. Not a bad confused, necessarily, but also not the sort of confusion that leaves you wondering and explorative. I just finished this one moments ago, set it down, and it will be easy to walk away from, because something didn't quite stick. I didn't really understand whether this was trying to be spooky, or an examination of relationships or...well. I don't know.
It was weird, and I do really like that about it. It was strange and very different from anything else I've come across in a while. I very much liked the snippets of quotes, discussion questions, stream of consciousness bits that were interspersed throughout the story. It gave it a bit of an avant garde, labyrinthian feel, like a crooked story about a creepy, crooked house.
I think this would be a great, haunting read to pick up in October, when the air is starting to bite, and a cast of grey spills over the sky as the sun sets.
It was weird, and I do really like that about it. It was strange and very different from anything else I've come across in a while. I very much liked the snippets of quotes, discussion questions, stream of consciousness bits that were interspersed throughout the story. It gave it a bit of an avant garde, labyrinthian feel, like a crooked story about a creepy, crooked house.
I think this would be a great, haunting read to pick up in October, when the air is starting to bite, and a cast of grey spills over the sky as the sun sets.