Penguin Orange Collection We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Orange Collection), (Paperback)

from tuusannuuska

3,75 stars. I liked it, but in a way that's really hard to pin point. Everything about this was better than average, yet nothing blew my mind.

from beentsy

What a weird and kind of wonderful little book. Full of very odd and rather terrifying characters, in particular Merricat Blackwood. The writing is so beautiful that you almost forget sometimes the rather awful thoughts and words that are coming out of Merricat. 'I wonder if I could eat a child...

from richardderus

The Book Report: A classic of American suspense literature, this is the story of the Blackwood family, told by Mary Katherine "Merricat", of her life with elder sister Constance and elderly uncle Julian. They live in the biggest, grandest house around their New England village, surrounded by vill...

from maryellencg

One of my all-time favorites; I was long overdue for a re-read.

from GingerbreadMan

Don't you just love that rare feeling when you read your first book by a writer, and just know: "I'm going to have to read every single thing she's ever written"? That feeling of giddy richness, from having a whole authorship waiting? I got it when I read my first Muriel Spark, when I stumbled on...