https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/empty-mansions/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:31:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/empty-mansions/#comment-5641 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:12:00 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2155#comment-5641 Just the title alone, Empty Mansions, gets me and makes me want to read it. It deals with a period of history I’m interested in and who doesn’t want to see the inner lives of the insanely rich?

]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/empty-mansions/#comment-5630 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:01:09 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2155#comment-5630 Its own rail line? That’s completely insane. Also insane to me: Having your own rail line and only using it for coal. If I were monster rich in the 1920s, I’d have figured out a way to hook up my rail line to the regular rail lines, and then I could go on trips very conveniently, and also other people could visit me easily.

]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/09/empty-mansions/#comment-5608 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:48:50 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2155#comment-5608 I was totally blown away by so much in this book, both the excess of the family and Huguette’s eccentric choices. I love when someone can find a little corner of history and share it with the rest of us.

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