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Behavior Of Moths

Poppy Adams

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.2 | 3858 Users | 753 Reviews

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Original Title:	The behaviour of moths
ISBN:	1844084868 (ISBN13: 9781844084869)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Virginia Stone, Vivian Stone, Maud Stone, Arthur Morris, Clive Stone

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From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left, forty-seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has rarely ventured outside it.
But with Vivien's arrival, dark, unspoken secrets surface. Told in Ginny's unforgettable voice, this debut novel tells a disquieting story of two sisters and the ties that bind - sometimes a little too tightly.

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Title	:	Behavior Of Moths
Author	:	Poppy Adams
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2008 (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Gothic. Historical. Historical Fiction. Audiobook. Literary Fiction

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Ratings: 3.2 From 3858 Users | 753 Reviews

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I didn't "read" this book, I endured it. I skipped so much of this book and I would have quit it within the first 10 pages if it wasn't for my book club. It almost got interesting on page 142. By page 147 I was smacking the book, realizing that I was over halfway through the book and it's never going to get any better. Want me to save you the trouble? "House house big house... Time, time, I care about the time.... Moths, beetles, caterpillars, more moths, BS, BS, BS.... she was PUSHED down the

I wasn't sure what to make of this book and it didn't seem to know what to make of itself because the author deliberately leaves most of the loose ends loose. It has many elements which should add up to something; an unreliable narrator, a crumbling isolated mansion in the English countryside, a dysfunctional family, two ageing sisters, a forty year old rift, a touch of madness, surrogacy, lethal lepidopterists, lots of elements that would make a reasonable gothic tale. Somehow the elements do

Do you ever start a book assuming that the title will be largely metaphorical... but then it turns out that the book is indeed in large part about The Behaviour of Moths.... But actually, if you overlook all the moth stuff (or I dont know, I dont know you and your lives, you might love moths in which case knock yourself out on the moth stuff) theres a bloody good story here!.Id say it took me a good 70 pages to get to grips with this book (which is a good example of why I rarely DNF books, you

so while "the sister is powered by the same sort of confidently rendered literary suspense that propelled donna tartts the secret history onto bestseller lists (nyt)" is not quite the same thing as "books claiming to be just like secret history", it stays on the shelf. because no one can stop me. and the author photo shows the same kind of serious angular beauty as donna tartt, so- similarity. this book is full of things i like - the big crumbling mansion of the traditional gothic, the

This novel is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which the mind can work, distort, and deteriorate. At the outset, this seems to be a fairly simple story of estranged sisters reuniting in their old age. While I could tell from reading the jacket that the real story would probably come in the possible scandal or heartbreak of their estrangement, I wasn't expecting the instability of the narrator.It's the little things that tip you off gradually to what is happening here. Once you realize

This book had the potential to be really good but didn't live up to those expectations. It wasn't bad and I don't consider it a waste of time but it was just "eh". The characters were not as developed as they could have been and many questions were left unanswered, for example why Vivien finally came back after 47 years. In my opinion, that is a key point to the novel and we never find out. (For those who have already read it, without giving anything away to those who haven't -- why did the

Good ending + bad, slow beginning + whoa, that's a lotta moths = The SisterOne good quotation: "Is it really necessary to record your life in order to make it worthwhile or commendable? Is it worthless to die without reference? Surely those testimonials last another generation or two, and even then they don't offer much meaning. We all know we're a mere fleck in the tremendous universal cycle of energy, but no one can abide the thought of their life, lived so intensively and exhaustively, being