Title: The Thirteenth Tale
Author: Diane Setterfield
Series: Stand-alone
Genre: Mystery
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My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie. –Vida Winter
The reason I decided to read The Thirteenth Tale is because of a book group I joined on Shelfari. The group is called Play Book Tag. (For those of you not familiar with this term, tags, a method of folksonomy, allow you to manage, annotate, and categorize content.) Each month a new tag is chosen, allowing you to pick a book from a list of books categorized within that tag to read. It’s a book club with a little more freedom, which I like. Anyway, October’s tag was “England,” so I chose The Thirteenth Tale.
I thought the story was very intriguing. I found myself wanting to know how everything fit together. Miss Winter’s past had such an element of mystery to it that I couldn’t help but wonder what was really going on. When I finished it, I wasn’t disappointed and I came away with a satisfied feeling. It’s definitely a good read.
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I liked this book too! Definitely not something I’m going to tell my friends they all HAVE to read it but it was quite intriguing and the reveal at the end was very gratifying. I thought some parts of it were a little of a stretch and when I was telling Merrick about it, I realized just how insane some of the characters were, but I thought it was pretty well written overall.