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Book Review of Ghosts on 87th Lane: A True Story

Ghosts on 87th Lane: A True Story
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**spoiler alert** This book not only bored me to tears but irritated the hell out of me! Cannot recommend to anyone unless you feel like yawning the entire time you are reading one unexciting account after another of every time over nearly 40 years that she has not just lived with ghosts in her home but put up with all that entails. Now I have read more than my fair share of these kind of books due to having experienced it myself and I have to be honest with you, you DO NOT stick around to see what else is going to happen to you! You run as fast as you can and get out of there even if that means renting a place that's smaller, less nice, people (including her husband) maybe GASP!! thinking she is nuts, blah..blah..blah.. all her excuses she used for staying. (and to make it worse she still lives there today!)
Now when this also involves physical harm to yourself (and this is when she had very young children in the home with no guarantee it wouldn't happen to them also!!)well none of those excuses stand up to scrutiny do they? I honestly don't want to call the woman a liar but hey these ghostly encounters she supposedly has suffered from for so long gave her a good reason to write a book, market it as something readable and sell it to all of us! Nice way to make some cash!
I wish I had not wasted my time or my money.