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Summary: Couldn't put it down...
Review: I read this book in one sitting. I couldn't have put it down if I tried. I don't really like ghost stories, but this was wonderful. You pretty much get 2 different stories in one book, both of which are totally captivating. I definetly recommend this book, you won't be disapointed.
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Summary: ghost stories
Review: "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." This quote starts the book.
The story is told in a flashback of an elderly woman named Hannah describing the summer she was 17 and in love with a boy named Conary. Alternating chapters are flashbacks to another woman's life more than 100 years before.
Over the chapters, the two stories come together to form one gripping tale of love and ghosts.
I read it in about a day. I may very well end up naming my son Conary. I loved this book.
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Summary: READING RARELY GETS BETTER THAN THIS
Review: Two stories interlinked - one in the 1800s and the other in the 1930s. Beautifully - I mean beautifully told. I keep thinking I want to do more serious writing, but then I read something like this and know there is no way I could ever top the quality of the prose in this story. The story was compelling (I really enjoyed the ghost aspect) and really enjoyed the tragic story of Hannah and Conny. I was already to enjoy the story of Claris and Danial but their story turned out to be quite a downer. There is a mystery in this story was well as Hannah tried to find out exactly who it was that murdered Danial Haskell in the late 1800s, his daughter Sallie being tried and acquitted, the murder remaining unsolved. At any rate I will be searching for other books by this author ASAP. She is that good. One of the best at putting a story together and for using beautiful and meaningful prose I've ever read.
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Summary: Modern gothic novel
Review: I LOVED IT...couldn't put it down....The sweet adolescent love story, the strange but fascinating ghost story...I read this novel very quickly and then found myself reading it again. I have recommended this book many times.
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Summary: Would make a good movie
Review: "More Than You Know" is a decent enough book. When I read that the author, Beth Gutcheon, also has written screenplays, I thought that this is a book that could very easily be adapted into a movie screenplay and perhaps that's what the author had in mind when she wrote it. I don't know. But honestly, this work comes across more as a "based on the hit film!" type of book rather than some great work of fiction."More Than You Know" is part love story, part ghost story, and the two are cleverly interwoven. When Hannah is 17 she spends the summer in a coastal Maine village and falls in love for the first time with the town's bad boy. She, her brother and her stepmother are renting an old school house that is haunted by a rather malevolent ghost. Between Hannah's recollections of that summer and her taste of first love, we see the story of the ghost and hear the tale of a crime perpetrated long ago on a nearby island. I won't deny that this book is good reading. Gutcheon is able to hold a reader's attention, and the book is entertaining. However, it's more suitable for light summer reading - take it along to the beach. If it's serious fiction you're looking for, skip this one and wait for the movie.
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Summary: a ghost story, a love story
Review: Beth Gutcheon's "More than you Know" is a cuddle-up read for wintertime eves. Part love story, part ghost story, featuring a parallel plot told in flashbacks that eventually links to the present, Gutcheon's tale will charm you and keep you turning pages late into the evening. The book is seemlessly woven, filled with delicate turnings and impressions. She writes especially well of her narrator's first love, of the days of passion and sweetness that the 17 year old girl found with a boy "from the wrong side of the tracks" in the small Maine village which is the setting for the book. Highly recommended, "More than You Know" should propel the author into a wide readership.
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Summary: My Friend loved It...
Review: My best friend reccomended this book and said it was the best she'd read in awhile. Said there were parts that she could hardly relax in because of the anticipation of what was going to happen.
I started the book, read 2 pages, fell asleep. It went on that way until I finished the book, and needless to say, I never found a good part, I just kept reading thinking it would get better.
And it never did.
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