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W. A. Gallenbury, Entry 3

The Crow, The Widow, The River

Disclaimer: I have not read these books in order nor have I read all the pages.

328 pages seemingly only of scenic descriptions of a river throughout the seasons. I've been jumping throughout this book so often that I started hearing the river in the woods when I biked to school. There is no river in the woods.

W. A. Gallenbury, Entry 2

The Crow, The Widow, The River

Disclaimer: I have not read these books in order nor have I read all the pages.

The Widow is the sequal to The Crow. Similarly to the first book, the title character isn't who the story is about. Or, it is on the surface, the whole book focuses on a man's interactions with a newly widowed woman (from a farm in rural England... ringing any bells? She happens to be the protagonist of the first book.) In the background you see his family life play out and how his father and mother pass away in sickness and leave to fight for his part of the inheritance with his entitled brother. Throughout the story he falls in love with the widow despite having a wife. At the end he loses both inheritance and wife, blaming the widow and losing her too.

After being spooked by my encounter with the paper beings from the previous book I was extra careful and took this reading much slower and more broken up, making sure I couldn't turn the page properly by putting paperclips everywhere. I almost flunked physics to get through this one.

No encounters with the Paper World during this read. Still definitely Paper World related by the feel of it, as I've mentioned in the diary you just know.