Bellman & Black

by Diane Setterfield | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1409128067 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingReetPetitewing of Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on 10/20/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by wingReetPetitewing from Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Monday, October 20, 2014
As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man blessed by fortune.
Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, he enters into a bargain. A rather strange bargain, with an even stranger partner, to found a decidedly macabre business.
And Bellman & Black is born.

Journal Entry 2 by wingReetPetitewing at Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 21, 2014
This is a bookray going to:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Bookworm-lady/ Spain
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Tanamo/ UK
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Icila/ France
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/catsalive/ Australia

Last person to release

Journal Entry 3 by wingReetPetitewing at Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Friday, October 31, 2014
Posted to Bookworm-lady with a postcard showing the River Windrush because it's mentioned in the book.

Journal Entry 4 by wingBookworm-ladywing at Madrid, Madrid Spain on Friday, November 7, 2014
And the book is here...
Thank you very much for sharing it with us, ReetPetite, I have really been looking forward to reading this one.
And thanks for the postcard... that's Bourton-on-the Water, one of the prettiest villages in England, and certainly my favourite (I have been there three or four times!)

Journal Entry 5 by wingBookworm-ladywing at Madrid, Madrid Spain on Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Currently reading it; I will ask for Tanamo's address.
Thanks again for sharing this with us, ReetPetite!

Journal Entry 6 by wingBookworm-ladywing at Madrid, Madrid Spain on Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Not really sure what to say about this novel.
Maybe because I enjoyed "The Thirteenth Tale" so much, this book meant a slight disappointment.
Though it is very well written, and its plot is very interesting... I don't know, something is missing, that factor which makes you want to turn the page and see what happens next...
Having said this, it is a very good novel, and there is a lot of research behind the mourning market in Victorian times... very interesting indeed!
Thanks for giving me the chance to read this novel, ReetPetite; it will soon go back to UK to meet its new reader.

Journal Entry 7 by wingBookworm-ladywing at Madrid, Madrid Spain on Friday, January 23, 2015

Released 9 yrs ago (1/23/2015 UTC) at Madrid, Madrid Spain

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Sent today to Tanamo, in UK.
Enjoy!!

Journal Entry 8 by Tanamo at Hinckley, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Friday, January 30, 2015
The book has arrived safely with me. I've just given up on the book I was currently reading as I found it boring so I will start on this one tonight. Thanks for sharing Rita.

Journal Entry 9 by Tanamo at Hinckley, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Sunday, February 8, 2015
Not as gripping as The Thirteenth tale but a well written book about obsession.

Journal Entry 10 by Tanamo at La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire France on Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Released 9 yrs ago (2/11/2015 UTC) at La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire France

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Mailed to next bookring participant.

Journal Entry 11 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Saturday, February 14, 2015
The book is here, thank you !
Thank you too for the postcard of Bourton, reminds me of this beautiful village I visited some twenty years ago with a coach load of friends.

Journal Entry 12 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Monday, April 6, 2015
I read it in front of a big oak with a rook nest at the top...and rooks flying and croaking but as I have never be cruel towards them I felt safe.
They are pretty mischievous though.

Very well written and enjoyable but you miss the little something which made the previous one so attractive.

Thank you for sharing.

Journal Entry 13 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Saturday, April 18, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (4/18/2015 UTC) at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France

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The rooks are pecking in my windowpanes and the book is on it's way to Down Under. ;)

Journal Entry 14 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, May 9, 2015
Thanks for sending, Icila, & for raying ReetPetite.

Journal Entry 15 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, May 13, 2015
I think this book is about grief - complex, unacknowledged & unexplored grief - & fear of death. Then again, I may be wrong - it's not entirely clear. Given that I think it is about grief, perhaps I shouldn't be too hard on Will Bellman, but I just got so impatient with him. I kept thinking, 'stop!, you have a daughter & people who would be friends, give them some of your time'. He even came to what he thought was a bargain about Dora's life, & still had no time for her.Will was completely driven by one obsessive idea, to the detriment of everything else, & his reward was the same as for everyone else.

I really enjoyed the first half of the book, but found the second half rushed & breathless, it made me impatient & I very nearly didn't finish it as Will's obsession made me want to shake him by the lapels until his teeth rattled. I feel my heart rate increasing as I write about the man's foolishness.

Well-written & worth the effort.

I've read a few reviews & they keep mentioning ghosts & how disappointed they were in this ghost story. I had no idea that it was meant to be a ghost story when I read it, but William Bellman certainly seemed to me to be dealing with ghosts - ghosts of fear, grief, loss & love.

Journal Entry 16 by catsalive at Laverton, Western Australia Australia on Friday, September 23, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (9/23/2016 UTC) at Laverton, Western Australia Australia

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Travelling companion to some other books.

Journal Entry 17 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Thanks very much, catsalive. It looks interesting, although I sometimes have difficulty reading about people driven to do foolish things by obsession. I haven't read "The Thirteenth Tale" but have it on my shelf, so perhaps I should read this one first?

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