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  1. NPR Review: 'The Saturday Night Ghost Club,' By Craig Davidson : NPR

    Book Reviews This 'Spectral Hue' Has A Shimmering Life Of Its Own. The Saturday Night Ghost Club is an unabashed bildungsroman, complete with budding romance, rites of passage, and the gradual ...

  2. The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

    Okay, this review is overdue! I'm doing one on The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson since this is the first book that I've read of his and this book was fantastic! The Saturday Night Ghost Club is set during the 80's and is definitely a coming-to-age story. Jake Baker is 12, not popular and spends most of his time with his ...

  3. THE SATURDAY NIGHT GHOST CLUB

    A coming-of-age narrative about ghosts, friendship, and family secrets. Jake Baker is a neurosurgeon who takes us back to the summer when he was 12 years old and growing up amid the tackiness of Niagara Falls, a landscape desperately in need of redemption. Although Jake is something of a loner, he hits it off with two kids new to the ...

  4. The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson : Review

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson : Review. A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends. Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls-a seedy but ...

  5. Book Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    Together, they create the Saturday Night Ghost Club, a group dedicated to uncovering local mysteries. A harmless pastime that becomes so much more. It is through Calvin that Jake learns some difficult truths about the past and how those truths affected his uncle and his own parents. All while Jake navigates school, bullies, and making friends.

  6. Colleen Mondor Reviews The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Craig Davidson (Knopf Canada 978--735-27482-2, C$27.00, 272pp, hc) August 2018.(Penguin 978--14-313393-3, $16.00, 206pp, tp) July 2019.The Saturday Night Ghost Club is only the slightest wisp of a ghost story.It is far more a memory of childhood, a winsome look back by a narrator who now works in a dif­ficult profession (as a surgeon) and is remembering the ...

  7. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    Publisher: The Saturday Night Ghost Club represents Craig Davidson's first work of fiction published under his own name since 2013's Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Cataract City. The new book is a nostalgia-driven coming-of-age thriller in the vein of Netflix's hit series Stranger Things and golden-age 1980s Stephen King.

  8. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club. by Craig Davidson. A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends. Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls --- a seedy but magical, slightly ...

  9. The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel by Craig Davidson Reading Guide

    By turns heartwarming and devastating, written with the skill and cinematic immediacy that has made Craig Davidson a star, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a bravura performance from one of our most remarkable literary talents: a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the fragility and resilience of mind, body and human spirit, as well as ...

  10. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become, and establishes Craig Davidson as a remarkable literary talent. Read An Excerpt.

  11. The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club. by. Craig Davidson. 3.88 · Rating details · 13,797 ratings · 2,204 reviews. A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.Growing up ...

  12. Book Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    THE SATURDAY NIGHT GHOST CLUB | Craig Davidson 07.09.2019 | Penguin Books Rating: 4/5 stars Niagara Falls in the 1980's is a seedy, slightly haunted place where Jake Baker is growing up. The summer Jake turns twelve he forms a close bond with his uncle, Calvin, who is filled to the brim with eccentric tales…

  13. Saturday Night Ghost Club

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club. by Craig Davidson. Penguin Books, 2019. 224 pages. Young Adult (14+) This is a ghost story, but not a scary paranormal fright-fest. It's about the ghosts of the past. Outcast Jake meets Billy Yellowbird at his Uncle's tourist-trap crystals and magic shop, "The Occultorium.". Soon after he realizes Billy ...

  14. Book Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    The Saturday Night Ghost Clubby Craig Davidson My rating: 1 / 5 Genre: Coming of age drama. The blurb for this book says that it's about some kids who spend the summer investigating local urban legends and ghost stories. It mentions the MC's uncle with whom the MC spends most of his time.

  15. Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

    224 pages; $8.99 paperback; $11.99 e-book. Reviewed by Kevin Lucia. The Saturday Night Ghost Club, by Craig Davidson, isn't exactly a ghost story. Nor does it feature any overtly supernatural events. However, it is, at heart, about the essence of hauntings. About the things which haunt us, even if they're buried so deeply, we don't even ...

  16. Review and Q+A: The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

    With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become, and establishes Craig Davidson as a remarkable literary talent. Review.

  17. The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson-ATLP Book Review

    SYNOPSIS. The Saturday Night Ghost Club takes place in the 1980s near Niagara Falls, just by the border between Canada and the U.S. Young Jake is twelve and he spends most of his free time with his Uncle Cal, who runs "The Occultarium" in town, a shop filled with spooky objects that tote the line between the living and the dead.. Known for it's occult artifacts and conspiracy theories ...

  18. Book review: "The Saturday Night Ghost Club" by Craig Davidson

    "The Saturday Night Ghost Club" is a masterfully crafted novel with enough twists and thrown in scientific facts about brains to keep you on your toes till the very last page. I can not wait to read more works by Craig Davidson. "The Saturday Night Ghost Club" is going to be one of my favourite reads of 2018. Rating: 4.5 stars

  19. {Book Review} The Saturday Night Ghost Club: Craig Davidson

    The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson was a wonderful read. Although it doesn't stretch under the umbrella of horror, it does explore paranormal elements and has a cast of characters that are authentic, likeable and interesting to follow. It's a story that, in some ways, reminds me of both It by Stephen King and the series ...

  20. The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel Kindle Edition

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  24. The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel

    The summer Jake turned twelve, Calvin invited him to join the "Saturday Night Ghost Club"--a seemingly light-hearted project to investigate some of Cataract City's more macabre urban myths. Over the course of that life-altering summer, Jake not only fell in love and began to imagine his future, he slowly, painfully came to realize that his ...

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  26. The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel (USED)

    With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become, and establishes Craig Davidson as a remarkable literary talent.

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