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LiterarySara

Literary Sara

What I've been reading on the trolley. 

Currently reading

Salt Fish Girl: A Novel
Larissa Lai
A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling Your Creative Career
Elizabeth Hyde Stevens
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Herman Melville
Strange True Stories of Louisiana - George W. Cable

I downloaded this book (for free!) when I was looking for versions of the story of the LaLaurie house in New Orleans. I read Cable's version out loud to a house full of guests: it is a wonderful read, with detailed descriptions of setting and mood that made me quite homesick for New Orleans architecture. Plus, Cable focuses on the deeds that gave the house its notoriety, no tacked-on made-up ghost stories.