1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3 . Share 2 "teaser" sentences also citing the title of the book and the author and in that way people can have great recommendations if they like the "teaser".
4. Please avoid spoilers!
It is exceedingly difficult to get enough walking exercise; and it is next to impossible (where secrecy is an object) to make love without being found out. Reverting for the moment to the latter difficulty only, life within the narrow and populous limits of a vessel may be defined as essentially life in public.
Image via WikipediaMiss or Mrs? by Wilkie Collins, p. 19
This is actually a collection of three of Wilkie Collins' novellas -- Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, and The Guilty River. With this collection, I'll have finished the Wilkie Collins Mini-Challenge. My daughter and I listened to the audio-book of The Woman in White, my husband and I watched the movie of The Moonstone (I'd read both of those already) and now I'm reading these three novellas.
I do enjoy Wilkie Collins -- I love his vibrant characters and dry wit and I love the glimpse into a nation, society, and time I have not experienced. If you haven't read any of his work, give him a try sometime. The audiobook my daughter and I listened to was excellently performed, if you'd like to go that route.
Oh, and I wanted to add that many people consider Collins to be the first to write mystery novels -- with Edgar Allan Poe being the first to write short stories in that genre. As I continue to read these three novellas, I see parallels to Poe that I haven't noticed as much in Collins' longer works. Interesting stuff.
Now that's different!
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