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Bookmarked Musings~ Week # 2


This book has my heart.




I first heard Rebecca when I was ten. Yes, I did not read it, I heard it. It so happened that the syllabus for our class was over, so the concerned teacher exchanged her classes with another teacher to complete the syllabus in the other class.

                          

This teacher was reading Rebecca at that time. Given how difficult it is to control a class full of 10-year-olds, she decided to tell us this story. She asked us if we would like to listen to a story, also adding that she had yet to read it completely. But was enthralled and that we might love it too. We all agreed.
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And for the rest of the 12 classes, we were in the world of Rebecca, at Manderley. As soon as she entered the class, there used to be pin-drop silence as we waited for her to tell us what happened next. It was somewhere in those reading sessions that I fell in love with this book.
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Many years later, I finally bought this book and read it on my own to fall in love again. Reading Rebecca once a year is like a ritual. It is a strange calling.
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This book is unique in so many ways. For starters, the protagonist does not have a name. This is perhaps one of the most popular and loved opening lines of a novel. Multiple screen adaptations so far and yet none seem to be able to do justice to the book.
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If you enjoy reading mystery, thriller, and suspense genres, you will definitely enjoy this book.

After reading all of this, you can imagine my joy when I discovered Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman. The blurb had me and here I am spending a nice cold weekend walking into Manderley again.








From
A Daphne Du Maurier fan for life.

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