We Hear the Dead

It started out as a harmless prank But soon enough, spiritualism was the fastest growing movement of the nineteenth century, and Maggie Fox was trapped in a life of deceit.Meticulously researched by the author, We Hear the Dead reveals the secret of how the Fox sisters faked their rapping sounds and their motives for inventing the s ance and founding spiritualism.Maggie I began the deception when I was too young to know right from wrong No one suspected us of any trick, because we were such young children We were led on by my sister purposely and by my mother unintentionally Only with the passing of time did I come to understand the consequences of my actions As Doctor wrote to me Weary, weary is the life by cold deceit oppressed Kate My sister has used the word deception I object to her use of that word, for I do not believe that I have ever intentionally deceived anyone Maggie has a different understanding of all the events that have happened since that night in Hydesville forty years ago To her the spirits were always a game For my sister Leah, they were a means to an end For my mother, a miracle And for me, they were my life s calling I have no regrets. Free Read [ We Hear the Dead ] author [ Dianne K. Salerni ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr We Hear the Dead started out so promising, and ended so annoyingly, that it may be one of the biggest disappointments that I ve ever read The book went swimmingly up until the point where the love interest was introduced Dr Elisha Kent Kane was so damn boring This book is literally about teenage girls who start a cult revolution That isthan enough of a story without a love interest According to the internet a reliable source if I ever saw one the story of We Hear the Dead is a main We Hear the Dead started out so promising, and ended so annoyingly, that it may be one of the biggest disappointments that I ve ever read The book went swimmingly up until the point where the love interest was introduced Dr Elisha Kent Kane was so damn boring This book is literally about...DNF I just don t care The narrative voice is so bland there s no real sense of time or place I ve read a little about the Fox history there s no reason it should make such a lackluster novel This is one of those books which should not have been written and or promoted as YA simply because the historical personages are YAs themselves when events begin There s just no urgency, no personality or flair, Maggie s splooge about her boring life fugly house smack of unnecess DNF I just don t care The narrative voice is so bland there s no real sense of time or place I ve read a little about the Fox history there s no reason it should make such a lackluster novel This is one of those books which should not have been written and or promoted as YA simp...We Hear The Dead by Dianne Salerni centers around the spiritualist movement and it s creators the Fox Sisters What began as a not so innocent prank turned into a somewhat religious movement The history of the Fox Sisters is...I have to admit that I don t usually read historical fiction It was set in the mid 1800 s, and while lines like It is expected that a wife give up her interests for her husband s may be accurate to the time, it made me want to hurt the people who said them And the poor girl couldn t even take a walk with her beau without a chaperon I am so glad I didn t have to live in that time Whenever I m asked what time period I d want to live in if not this one, I always choose a time in the future T I have to admit that I don t usually read historical fiction It was set in the mid 1800 s, and while lines like It is expected that a wife g...This was horrible I was expecting a book about spiritualism You know Details of the actual new religion Maybe some insight on how famous the Fox sisters became Perhaps describing their social lives, and how big spiritualism actually got But no If you wanted to learn anything about spiritualism, do not read this book It turns into a pathetic love story There was hardly any details about view spoiler Kate having actual powers Or why she turns into an alcoholic hide spoiler The This was horrible I was expecting a book about spiritualism You know Details of the actual new religion Maybe some insight on how famous the Fox sisters became Perhaps describing t...In antebellum Upstate New York, Margaretta Maggie Fox and her younger sister Kate are inseparable, being the two youngest children of the family and much younger than their older siblings Unhappy about a recent move to the country and upset with the intrusion of their less lively niece Lizzie into their home Hoping to scare Lizzie away, the sisters come up with the ultimate prank pretend that ghosts are near Cracking their joints, the pair of mischievous young girls start something they ne In antebellum Upstate New York, Margaretta Maggie Fox and her younger sister Kate are inseparable, being the two youngest children of the family and much younger than their older siblings Unhappy about a recent move to the country and upset with the intrusion of their less lively niece Lizzie into their home Hoping to scare Lizzie away, the sisters come up with the ultimate prank pretend that ghosts are near Cracking their joints, the pair of mischievous young girls start something they never ever dreamed of Their mother, fervently believing that spirits are in the home, recruits the neighbors to come see Soon nearly the whole community comes to hear the spirit rapping The girls have a few tricks under their nightdresses but how long can they keep it up before they are exposed Enter eldest sister Leah Disappointed in her lot in life, Leah sees her sisters pranks as a golden opportunity Before they know it, Maggie and Kate are celebrated nationwide as renowned spiritualists, creating a...When I started We Hear The Dead I had high hopes I had read great reviews for it and I was very intrigued by the premise Sadly, it wasn t as good as I had hoped or expected.Maggie Fox and her younger sister, Kate, didn t mean to create a new religion with a harmless prank but they did The spiritualist movement began with them and grew to be muchpopular than anyone expected Maggie and Kate made their living with these spirit circles All that changed when Maggie met Elisha Kent Kane He When I started We Hear The Dead I had high hopes I had read great reviews for it and I was very intrigued by the premise Sadly, it wasn t as good as I had hoped or expected.Maggie Fox and her younger sister, Kate, didn t mean to create a new religion with a harmless prank but they did The spiritualist movement began with them and grew to be muchpopular than anyone expected Maggie and Kate made their living with these spirit circles All that changed when Maggie met Elisha Kent Kane He wasn t like the other suitors in many ways but in one way especially He wanted Maggie ...Before I started this book, I didn t know much about spiritualism I actually had to look it up According to the dictionary, Spiritualism noun a system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, esp through mediums It s crazy to think this all started in 19th century America with two young girls, Maggie and Kate Fox They didn t intend to create this religion, they actually wanted to spook their annoying niece It obviously developed in Before I started this book, I didn t know much about spiritualism I actually had to look it up According to the dictionary, Spiritualism noun a system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, esp through mediums It s crazy to think this all started in 19th century America with two young girls, Maggie and Kate Fox They didn t intend to create this religion, they actually wanted to spook their annoying niece It obviously developed into somethingMaggie often feels bad with how this all came about and how she feels she is deceiving the public, but Kate, on the other hand, knows she has a gift and doesn t feel remorse at all So, you are probably wondering how they deceived first their family, their neighborhood, and then the world They engaged in spiri...I felt like a little kid listening to an astounding story being told by some wizened person recounting a rather shadowy part of their lives While initially the page count had me a little nervous really, how much story is there to tell, I thought , it quickly didn t become a problem as I swallowed down gulp after gulp after gulp of this engrossing story.It s interesting because starting off the story, I had a feeling I wasn t going to care what happened to these girls, whether the...The neat thing about this book is that it s based on the true story of the Fox sisters, whoor less started the entire Spiritualist craze in the 1850s Butthan just showing this thin slice of the times, the book is a fully realized description of pre Civil War life on the east coast of the US This isn t a period heavily covered in fiction The focus on mid nineteenth century America is mostly toward the Civil War and the antebellum South.In the first few chapters, I was worried They The neat thing about this book is that it s based on the true story of the Fox sisters, whoor less started the entire Spiritualist craze in the 1850s Butthan just showing this thin slice of the times, the book is a fully realized description of pre Civil War life on the east coast of the US This isn t a period heavily covered in fiction The focus on mid nineteenth century America is mostly toward the Civil War and the antebellum South.In the first few chapters, I was worried They seemed kind of repetitive, going through all of the Fox sisters various rapping techniques, but then Ms Salerni gets rolling and turns the book into a can t put it down page turner High praise for We Hear the Dead Yes, but I m praising it in the context of what it is a personal story of a young woman caught up in a lie that lasts for years, a lie she can t get out of even if it means losing the love of her life.We want to yell at Maggie to grab her guy and head off to the arctic with him,...

• English
• 21 February 2018
Dianne K. Salerni
• Paperback
• 448 pages
• 1402230923
• Dianne K. Salerni
• We Hear the Dead