I got this in a bargain lot of books and am sending it to SqueakyChu. Enjoy!

It's in the mail!

I received this in the mail today from gomboggit. It was originally supposed to be a RABCK, but we worked out a trade. I'm prepared to be scared when I read this book! :-)

Thanks so much, gomboggit. Your book will be in the mail to you by the end of this week.

I am reading this book for the November 2014 TIOLI challenge on LibraryThing to read a book where the title or author's name contain a "traditional" Thanksgiving holiday item, though not necessarily food (harvest).

I guess it's about time to read this book, eh? :D

I'm halfway through this book, and I am enjoying it quite a lot.

There's one problem, though. This book is so brittle that it's falling apart even as I'm reading it. The pages are coming loose from the binding and falling out, one by one. Today the spine split completely in half down the middle. :( I'm keeping all the pages together with a rubber band because I want to finish reading the story. When I'm done, I will sadly have to pulp this novel along with other paper recyclables. I'll let you know when that time comes.

What a horrifying story! What a great book!

This is the story of what awaits Ned Constantine, his wife Beth, and his daughter Kate after they leave urban life behind and move to the rural Connecticut town of Cornwall Coombe. Its population of individuals, most notably the herbalist Widow Fortune and the postal worker Tamar Penrose, carry out their ancient harvest traditions and festivals, having as their crescendo the rite of Harvest Home, an ancient secret ceremony celebrating the corn harvest and ritually symbolizing earthly renewal.

The characters of this story are positively creepy. It turns out that you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys (or gals). I really liked the main character Ned who was an artist. He, at first, saw the beauty of Cornwall Coombe and tried to capture it in his paintings. His intention was to make a better life for his family. Unfortunately, he didn't realize his mistake until too late.

If you love taut writing, unpredictable characters, small town settings, and unsettling scenes, you'll appreciate this book. if you have a queasy stomach for grizzly scenes, it might be better to just pass this book along to someone else who finds horror novels entertaining.

I am so sorry that I have to pulp this book. It was such a great story, and the book is now out of print. I cannot save this book because the spine in completely broken in half and the pages are coming out in clumps. There is not enough tape in the world that can possibly save this book. I am placing this book with my paper recycling today in the hopes that one day it will be reincarnated into another book!

A a legacy to this book, gomboggit, I hope to find another used copy of this book and continue to circulate this story to others.

R.I.P. little book!

P.S. It seems somewhat sacrilegious to throw out such a good book! :(