Thought Train to Pusan

Why not read a book about an eerie house during this spooky month of October? Turns out, I didn’t realize that this short novel was an offshoot story from David Mitchell’s larger universe of The Bone Clocks . I can’t help but feel like maybe had I already read The Bone Clocks I would have enjoyed Slade House more, but as a story itself it isn’t bad, and definitely made me interested to pick up the original book that this is a companion to because of it. In any case, Slade House is a story that spans across five decades, centered on a mysterious house that no one has ever really heard of or seen except for one every nine years, when some special person (typically lonely or different in some way) is invited inside and never to be seen again. The residents of the house who do the inviting, however, don’t necessarily seem to think that their way of life can last as it has, and that sooner or later something or someone will come along to throw things out of balanc...