An Introvert's World of Books discussion

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead.

Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Hugo is the tea shop's owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over.

But Wallace isn't ready to abandon the life he barely lived. With Hugo's help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life.

When the Manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives Wallace one week to cross over, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days...https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...


Stranded by Sarah Goodwin

Eight strangers.
One island.
A secret you'd kill to keep.

When eight people arrive on the beautiful but remote Buidseach Island, they are ready for the challenge of a lifetime: to live alone for one year.

Eighteen months later, a woman is found in an isolated fishing village. She’s desperate to explain what happened to her: how the group fractured and friends became enemies; how they did what they must to survive until the boat came to collect them; how things turned deadly when the boat didn’t come…https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...


The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale

London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves, eggs fly through the air; stolen jewellery appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a terrapin materialises on her lap. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research - reads of the case, and hastens to the scene of the haunting. But when Fodor starts his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems...https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

I chose books in honor of Halloween. It was very difficult. If the cover or title sounded scary, I couldn't do it. I am that big of a chicken!

After adding The Haunting of Alma Fielding I immediately bought it from Amazon. I can't put it down. I thought it was more like a ghost story, spooky novel from the point of view of Alma. It's Nandor Fodor that is the "main character" and told from his professional views. It's still captivating and I am not disappointed. There are other references of "hauntings". I googled them and found them to be backing up the book or vise versa. Now I am looking to get Gef The Talking Mongoose: The "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Tim Swartz!!!