{"id":2769,"date":"2013-10-17T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2013-10-22T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:56:51","slug":"just-in-time-for-halloween-this-house-is-haunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/just-in-time-for-halloween-this-house-is-haunted\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in time for Halloween &#8211; This House Is Haunted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CGHRC06\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00CGHRC06&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2771\" style=\"margin: 0 30px 20px 0;\" alt=\"This House is Haunted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131006HouseHanutedM.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So begins<em>\u00a0<a title=\"This House is Haunted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CGHRC06\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00CGHRC06&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\">This House is Haunted<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by John Boyne. \u00a0While the novel isn&#8217;t about Dickens, his name comes up frequently. And those of you that like Dickens\u2019s style of writing are sure to adore this scary tale.<\/p>\n<p>In this novel, reminiscent of \u00a0<em>Jane Eyre <\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Turn of the Screw, \u00a0<\/em>Eliza Caine accepts the position of governess at Gaudline Hall. \u00a0But things are a little off at Gaudline Hall. \u00a0 The children seem to be all on their own. The people in town seem to know a lot more than they&#8217;re telling. \u00a0What is it exactly that they&#8217;re afraid to say? \u00a0Could it relate to the odd feeling that Eliza has about Gaudline Hall?<\/p>\n<p>This is the perfect book for this spooky time of year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin\u2019s walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall\u2019s long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Clever, captivating, and witty,\u00a0<i>This House Is Haunted<\/i>\u00a0is pure entertainment with a catch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father. So begins\u00a0This House is Haunted\u00a0by John Boyne. \u00a0While the novel isn&#8217;t about Dickens, his name comes up frequently. And those of you that like Dickens\u2019s style of writing are sure <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[825,134,193,105],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-dickens","tag-charles-dickens","tag-jane-eyre","tag-spooky-quotes","tag-the-turn-of-the-screw"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}