{"id":2780,"date":"2010-09-16T23:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T03:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2010-09-16T23:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T03:39:15","slug":"bbaw-day-4-forgotten-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"BBAW Day 4: Forgotten Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"BBAW\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Topic:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Sure we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all read about Freedom<\/em> and Mockingjay <\/em>but we likely have a book we wish would get more attention by book bloggers, whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a forgotten classic or under marketed contemporary fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 This is your chance to tell the community why they should consider reading this book!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had to think about this topic for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 And there are two books that I can never remember the names of… I read them many years ago around the same time and often get the plots confused with each other so combine them in my mind.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve always thought of them as one book.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s how I described the plot to my husband: “There’s a brother that dies and his ex-girlfriend sees the living brother and tells him that she may be pregnant with his dead brother’s child.\u00c2\u00a0 And it’s very gothic.\u00c2\u00a0 And has ghost in the title.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Maybe that’s a\u00c2\u00a0book I should write. :)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I still haven’t figured out which\u00c2\u00a0novel involved the brothers but the gothic book with ghost in the title is The Ghost Writer<\/em>by\u00c2\u00a0John Harwood.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"Ghost<\/p>\n

This is a gothic tale with several layers to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Gerard Freeman finds a hidden drawer of his mother’s where he sees a picture of a mysterious woman he knows nothing about.\u00c2\u00a0 His mother is not happy at all when she finds out he knows about the photograph.\u00c2\u00a0 They are close and she often tells him stories of her idyliic childhood on the family estate.\u00c2\u00a0 A few years later Gerard strikes up a pen pal relationship with a girl about the same age who is disabled.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually he goes to his mother’s childhood house to learn “the truth” about his mother.<\/p>\n

I remember this one being a little bit creepy and it is a book where the details matter to the plot(s).\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at some of the Amazon reviews quite a few people were disappointed in the ending.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I’m going to re-read this one to see if it holds up or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Topic:\u00c2\u00a0 Sure we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all read about Freedom and Mockingjay but we likely have a book we wish would get more attention by book bloggers, whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a forgotten classic or under marketed contemporary fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 This is your chance to tell the community why they should consider reading this book!\u00c2\u00a0 I had to… Continue reading BBAW Day 4: Forgotten Treasures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[32,367,366],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-book-blogger-appreciation-week","tag-john-harwood","tag-the-ghost-writer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}