The Woman in the Window
By A. J. Finn
This was recommended on my audiobook app. It tells the story of a woman that can't leave her house due to agoraphobia. She thinks she witnesses a murder and then no one believes her. The book made me think of Hitchcock's Rear Window, and since none of us can leave our houses at this time I thought it would be perfect.
I found the plot meh. I just didn't care about any of the characters. It is clearly a rip off of Rear Window, so much that the main character is constantly watching Hitchcock's films. It was okay but I found myself bored with it by the end.
Rebecca
By Daphne du Maurier
I bought this book forever ago and just couldn't get into it. Everyone one says it's a classic and I just tried so hard. A woman that thinks she's being haunted by her new husband's deceased wife, what a creepy idea. I ended up listening to the book back and forth picking up or dropping off my son to school. Before all of this social distancing started. I would zone out and stop listening then I would have to go back and have to relisten on what was going on. About half way through I realized I thought I might have seen the Hitchcock film adaptation.
The book was fine and has an old fashioned way of being creepy. Maybe I should have read it closer to Halloween.
The Turn of the Screw
By Henry James
I bought this book last summer because I heard that Netflix was going to do the same thing it did with Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, which I loved. But I read it wrong that it wasn't coming out until this fall, not last fall. I decided to postpone reading it until closer when the limited series comes out.
When the quarantine started, I thought it would be fun to read the book together with the hubby so we would know the story before we watched the show. The hubs had a hard time reading it and I had a hard time listening. So I thought we could listen to it via audiobook, still we would find other reasons to not listen to the book. I ended up just finishing the book by myself and blah. I hope I enjoy the show better.
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