We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
So this post is a little late. I am currently writing this while riding in my Jeep on 380 in Hawkeye land while my hubby drives in the sleeting icerain. We are driving to Des Moines to do our sixth and last Christmas of 2018. Due to all the travel and packing, this post is going to be short and maybe not as in depth as other posts have been.
This week's book is We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which was written by Shirley Jackson. If the title or author sound familiar, that's because Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House, which which as been adapted a few times. Most recently Netflix did a loose adaptation this Halloween season. If the title We Have Always Lived in the Castle sounds familiar, it might be that there was a little independent film adaptation this past fall as well. I had read The Haunting of Hill House in middle school back when that horrible film adaptation with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson came out. I had such a bad recollection of the book that it took me three episodes of the Netflix series for me to remember I had read through book. My sister read We Have Always Lived in the Castle and really liked it, so she wanted me to read it. It's a really quick read and really flipping random and of course weird. I enjoyed it but I can't really explain why or what it's about. There are two sisters who live in this big house with their uncle. The family is odd and wealthy so of course the town folks don't like them. The rest of their family had been poisoned a few years back. They talk about the deaths/murders constantly and act like it's no big deal. The whole book is really weird. I would recommend it, but definitely check it out from the library or try to find a cheap copy due to how short it is.
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