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    The Night Journal
    Audiobook18 hours

    The Night Journal

    Written by Elizabeth Crook

    Narrated by Kimberly Farr

    3.5/5

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    A brilliantly imagined, lavish, and transporting novel of a young woman's search for the truth about her family's mythic past. . .
    Meg Mabry has spent her life with her back turned to her legendary family legacy. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass composed starkly revealing diaries of her life on the southwestern frontier, first as a Harvey Girl at the glamorous Montezuma Resort in New Mexico and later as the wife of brilliant, and often-absent, railway engineer Eliott Bass. A generation later, Hannah's daughter, Claudia Bass, renowned historian known to all as Bassie, staked her academic career and reputation on these vibrant accounts, editing and publishing them to great acclaim. Thanks to the journals and the to the industry Bassie created around them, Hannah would forever be one of the most romantic and famous figures of southwestern history.
    Meg, however-Bassie's granddaughter-finds the family lore oppressive. When an excavation on the old Bass family property beckons a now-elderly and viper-tongued Bassie back to the fabled land of her childhood, Meg only grudgingly consents to accompany her. Determined not to live under the shadow of her ancestry, Meg has never even read the journals. But when an unexpected discovery casts doubt on the history recorded in their pages and harbored in Bassie's memories, Meg finally succumbs to the allure of her great-grandmother's story and ventures even deeper into Hannah's life to unlock the mystery at the journal's core.
    THE NIGHT JOURNAL is an enthralling tale in which native ruins, majestic desert hotels, and the hardship and boldness of frontier life fit seamlessly with a modern-day story of coming to terms with loss, family secrets, and shattering truths that lie shrouded in memory.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2006
    ISBN9781415929292
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    The Night Journal
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    Elizabeth Crook

    Elizabeth Crook (Texas, 1959) ha publicado hasta la fecha cinco títulos con los que ha recibido, entre otros, los premios Spur a la mejor novela del Oeste, el WILLA en la categoría de ficción histórica o el Jesse H. Jones.

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    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The writing was good, the story well-told and the setting so beautifully described it made me want to visit New Mexico. I also liked the mystery surrounding the family history of the main characters. This book was just sitting in my huge TBR pile and I picked it out randomly. Don't even remember putting it there in the first place. I'm glad I did.
    • 4/5
      Another slow starting book, but ended up being a really good story. The book is actually two stories intertwined into one and very well done. I enjoy the historical lessons of New Mexico in the late 1800's and the guessing game played with the characters.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The writing was good, the story well-told and the setting so beautifully described it made me want to visit New Mexico. I also liked the mystery surrounding the family history of the main characters. This book was just sitting in my huge TBR pile and I picked it out randomly. Don't even remember putting it there in the first place. I'm glad I did.
    • 3/5
      A woman with a complicated family history discovers new things about it after her grandmother's death. Numerous historical flashbacks. Good for people interested in the Southwest and in genealogy/family history.
    • 4/5
      A slow start but I soon found myself pulled in by this story of learning to deal with the past, even when it is painful. A blending of history and landscape, the characters were honest even as they dealt with their wounded psyches in different ways.
    • 2/5
      Ugh. It will take you 15 minutes to figure out the big mystery. This book is too long and I so didn't like the characters.
    • 4/5
      A really enjoyable book for me in that it contains mystery, history, and a little archaeological investigation, some of my favorite things. Also, the setting is the beautiful southwest, Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico. Really strong female lead characters and the relationship between mothers and daughters. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      All her life Meg has managed to avoid reading her great grandmother's journals edited by her grandmother Bassie, a renowned historian. An archaeological dig at the site of Bassie's former home in New Mexico is the occasion for Meg's taking Bassie back to face the past. When the bones that Bassie believed to have been those of a dog turn out to be human, Bassie's memories are challenged. Meg begins to read the journals. She and Jim, the archaeologist, set out to discover the truth. I won't give away any more of the plot.I will say that I enjoyed the last half of the book much more than the first part. The first portion of the book mostly sets up the heart of the book in the second half where the mystery of the bones and journals are revealed. The novel is well-written. The set-up for the more interesting second half was a bit drawn out. After one gets past the set-up, it is a riveting read.
    • 3/5
      Multiple time lines are wrapped together in this book. The past from the journals of the early 1900s and the present with lead character. Second 1/2 better since most of the plot takes place there. The first 1/2 sets up the characters.