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I’d love to read this! Sounds like a very interesting story.
This sounds fabulous! I'd love to get a copy and read it.
Always love reading out of my element.
I would like a copy, please.
This sounds interesting.. please add me. =)
This book is kind of giving me “The Scarlet Letter” and “The Crucible” vibes. I would love to check this book out.
Jasmine wrote: "We have a new giveaway for for Silence by Julia Park Tracey. There are ten physical copies open to U.S. residents only. The giveaway will run from September 13th t..."Good luck to everyone!
well Id love to have entered but Im actually Canadian.. good luck to you all
Ooh this book sounds perfect for the spooky season!
This sounds amazing! I need a good book for Halloween time and most are too scary lol
This sounds like a great read! Thank you!
Sounds like the perfect read for the season. Would love to win 😊
Ooo! I’m so excited about this book! I haven’t read anything set in colonial Massachusetts since The Crucible, and I am so ready for more!
I have an aunt through marriage that claims to be a witch. This would definitely be an interesting read!
Commenting to enter! This sounds really good.
I am descended from Edward Doty, an indentured servant who was the second to last signer on the Mayflower Compact. He and another indentured servant had the first duel on American soil (over a woman, who, in the end, wanted neither of them). This time period is so interesting to me that I would love to read Silence!
This story takes place in my neck of the woods! It would be an edifying historical read for me and my family.
Commenting to enter! Going to Salem in October for the first time! This would be a perfect read before! 😊
I would love to read this! Very interested in this time period and subject matter!
Added to my want you read!!
This looks very interesting! I have not read much about this era. I’d love to win a copy!
Sounds very interesting. Would love to read it.
Oh this sounds really interesting! I'd love a copy too!
This is so up my alley. I would love a copy!
Sounds wonderful!!! Would live to read!! :)
I really would like to read this.
Sign me up! I'd love to read it!
Please add me to the giveaway. Thank you
Would love to enter the giveaway. Thank you!
I am fascinated by the witch hunts in Europe and the Americas at that time! All of those poor innocent souls murdered simply because they were outcasts, different from the “norm,” and or had medical diagnoses they didn’t understand then ie epilepsy or mental illness. Perhaps it was something as simple as the accused owned land someone else wanted! It truly breaks my heart to think about how the cards were stacked against them. There was really no way to, or in the least very few ways to win those so called “trials” the accused were forced to endure. If anyone spoke up in favor of the accused, often they themselves were called witches and put on trial as well.
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I don’t know what’s happening—Goodreads isn’t sending me anything! If it’s not too late, I would love to read this book.
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“I am no witch, nor adulteress, thief, nor murderer. They say I have lost my reason, but I know only that my heart is shattered, and in crying it aloud, now I must pay the cost....”
After three grievous losses, Puritan woman Silence Marsh dares to question God aloud in the church, and that blasphemy lands her in trouble—she is silenced for a year by the powers that be. Broken in heart and spirit, Silence learns to mime and sign, but it isn’t until a new Boston doctor, the dashing Daniel Greenleaf, comes to her backward Cape Cod village that she begins to hope again. Rather than treating Silence with bleeding or leeches, Dr. Greenleaf prescribes fresh air, St. John’s Wort, long walks—and reading.
Silence has half a hope of getting through her year of punishment when the cry of witchcraft poisons the village. Colonial Massachusetts is still reeling from the Salem Witch Trials just 20 years before. Now, after demanding her silence, she is called to witness at a witchcraft trial—or be accused herself.
A whiff of sulfur and witchcraft shadows this literary Puritan tale of loss and redemption, based on the author’s own ancestor, her seventh great-grandmother.