The Turn of the Screw

46Watch it awake.

I will not tell you if the ghosts are real, and that is the point.

The review

A governess is hired to a country house with two children, and she becomes sure they are haunted by two dead servants. Henry James will not settle the ghosts, and I will not either. A teen can read it. Don't turn the unread pages into a contest about who is clever at dinner.

The children are in a house with an adult who is afraid. That is already enough. Her job is their care, and fear is a poor instrument for it. Whether the dead servants are walking or the fear is hers, those two still have to live there. I would not make a parlor game out of their nights.

Journal

Keep The Turn of the Screw in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

7
Industry
She is hired as a governess, and the children's care is the job.
6
Household
Two children live in that house, and no parent is the one on duty.
4
Piety
Her certainty feels like duty, and the book never proves it is.
5
Courage
She stays with the children in a house she has come to fear.
3
Republic
The duty is a private hire, not a debt she owes a town.
4
Temperance
Fear keeps feeding on itself, and the tale never puts it down.
5
Truth
It may be ghosts or it may be her, and the book will not pick.
3
Stewardship
What you leave with is two children and an adult who is afraid.

Where to read

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Story · France · 1831

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

44Leave it.

The cathedral's still standing, and the archdeacon's want is what actually ruins her.

Take controlThis scores 44. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

The cathedral is the thing that lasts. Quasimodo rings the bells, the city calls him a monster, and Esmeralda is desired and then condemned. I kept waiting for the building to make the men inside it better. It doesn't. The archdeacon's want runs the ruin, and Hugo is not shy about a churchman being the engine.

A teen can read it if you stay for the talk after. Don't describe the punishment, and don't let the bells turn into a romance. The stone outlasts the people who used it. That's the part I'd actually say at dinner: a beautiful public place can watch a woman be condemned and still be standing when the men are gone.

Journal

Keep The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Heidi

64 instead of 44

Heidi is still a novel film, and it scores 64 instead of 44. What you gain is household: A girl left with her grandfather thaws him, and that bond is the life.