Uh, what murder? {Third Girl by Agatha Christie}
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Fictional true crime done right {Dark Places by Gillian Flynn}
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Fictional true crime done right: dark and twisted
About Dark Places by Gillian Flynn: Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice" of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club—a secret secret society obsessed with notorious crimes—locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll...Be careful, it cuts deep {Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn}
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Saturday, January 26, 2019
Be careful, it cuts deep
About Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn: Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion,...Is seeing believing? {The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn @ajfinnbooks}
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
Unputdownable peeping Tom tale
About The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn: It isn't paranoia if it's really happening . . . Anna Fox lives alone--a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her days drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family....Puny smuny. Sorrow smorrow. Anything but. {All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews}
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
When the biggest irony is that I loved loved loved it.
About All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews*: You won’t forget Elf and Yoli, two smart and loving sisters. Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. Yoli is a beguiling mess, wickedly funny even as she stumbles through life struggling to...Lie in it! {Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster}
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
You made your bed, now lie in it.
Synopsis of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster: When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lilia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition to face the uncouth foreigner. But when they are confronted...Unexpected, unrealistic and lots of heart {The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson}
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Tuesday, October 04, 2016
When the unexpected is the best thing that could ever happen.
About The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson*: Andie had it all planned out.
When you are a politician’s daughter who’s pretty much raised yourself, you learn everything can be planned or spun, or both. Especially your future.
Important internship? Check.
Amazing friends? Check.
Guys? Check (as long as we’re talking no more than three weeks).
But that was before the scandal. Before having to be in the same house with her dad. Before walking...Let the waterworks begin! {The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman}
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Crocodile tears? I couldn't get suckered into this one. Sorry.
Synopsis of The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman: After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife,...Pinoys, start waxing poetic {Mariposa Gang and Other Stories by Catherine Torres}
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
Vignettes of alienation. Vignettes of Philippine life.
Synopsis of Mariposa Gang and Other Stories by Catherine Torres: A maid packs her bags after learning that her employer values her less than a murano vase. A young man enters the priesthood when he is spurned by the woman he loves and is sent on a mission to the backwaters of West Bengal. A pampered heiress goes on exchange study in Tokyo to prove her independence and finds herself stuck without heating in the...You can mess with my mind anytime, Ms. Flynn! {Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn}
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Ms. Flynn, you got me.
About Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn*: On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under...Fan opinion in book form {The Panem Companion by V. Arrow}
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Saturday, July 09, 2016
Fan opinion in book form
Synopsis of The Panem Companion - from Mellark Bakery to Mockingjays by V. Arrow:
-What does Panem look like?
-How does Panem define race?
-How do Panem’s districts reflect the major themes of the trilogy?
-What allusions to our world are found in Panem names like Finnick, Johanna, Beetee, Cinna, Everdeen, and Mellark?
Go deeper into the home of the Hunger Games with the creator of the best-known fan map of Panem.
The Panem Companion gives fresh insight into Suzanne Collins’ trilogy...Still lusty for life yet ruing lost youth. {Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez}
Still lusty for life yet ruing lost youth.
Synopsis of Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit--he has purchased hundreds of women--he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can...Boo! With a little bit of cute, dark and funny thrown in! {Anya's Ghost by Vera Brogsol}
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Be careful when the cutesy turns sinister ...
Back blurb of Anya's Ghost by Vera Brogsol*: Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part.
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century.
Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed..."Everybody wants to own the end of the world" {Zero K by Don DeLillo}
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
"Everybody wants to own the end of the world"
Synopsis of Zero K by Don DeLillo: Jeffrey
Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a
younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the
primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is
exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when
biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of
transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the...A glimpse of Lyra after the trilogy {Lyra's Oxford by @PhilipPullman}
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Saturday, April 09, 2016
A glimpse of Lyra, and a promise of things to come.
Back blurb of Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford opens two years after the conclusion of Philip Pullman Amber Spyglass in the comfort and familiarity of Jordan College.
Lyra and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, sit on the sun-drenched roof looking out over all of Oxford, but their peace is shattered when a strange bird - a witch's dæmon, on its own - tumbles out of the sky, in search of a healing...Shades of Alice: "We're all mad here" {Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coehlo}
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
"We're all mad here."- the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollAbout Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coehlo: Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that...When the story of the common man becomes epic {The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz} @ReadNobels
The epicness of rabble.
About The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz: In this captivating novel, Mahfouz chronicles he dramatic history of the al-Nagi family - a family that moves, over many generations, from the heights of power and glory to the depths of decadence and decay.
The Harafish begins with the tale of Ashur al-Nagi, a man who grows from humble origins to become a great leader, a legend among the common people - the harafish of the title. Generation after generation, however,...·
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