tia’s Reviews > Hungry Hill > Status Update

(Continued)
Being punished for our so-called progress
What has it got us? I hear old man Donovan beyond the grave, laughing maniacally at our doom.

(Continued) strangely familiar, like the first time the dead sea scrolls were read. I appreciate Maurier's sense of humor... Eliza bickering to her sister-mother Barbara that her escort is hanging out with her whimsical minded sister Jane behind a rock. John's youthful, fanatical obsession with the errant femme fatale Miss Flower. The old man Donovan stoking ancient tensions, forever the curse of the vanquished.

I read all the time. Multiple books at a time. Because I saver books like an addict remembers their first hit, but each book is a new drug better than LSD better than med grade ganja. And yet, this book opened before me is even greater than these customary psychedelic experiences. It's opened to page 81 and I'm hovering protectively and yet apprehensively over this tome published in another lifetime 1943 but yet